Front End Friday

@RSJB18 posted:

Happy FEF!

Kicking off this week's front ends.....WbB Rutland 70 tonner

Bob

Rutland making a big statement for FEF this morning Bob.......nice.

PW Lionel Wabash along with Williams Wabash enjoying another HOT day in upstate NY, Have a good weekend all!

Here is my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!!

Railking Great Northern EP5 with PS3; the real question is, is this the front end?

@Sitka - Wow TWO Wabash F-3's and I can't tell which is which but both are handsome.  So I guess I will follow suit at least in part with my Lionel Wabash F-3.   Here are some engines on the Leonardtown and Savannah, at the wharf yard getting ready to move out and handle their daily assignments.

Those international freight loads that arrive on the ships coming up the Savannah River need many RR to move the shipping out towards its destination.  We have a Kline UP MP-15, a Lionel 2344-2344C A-B-A NYC F-3, and a Wabash 2367 AB getting ready for work.  At the far left is a Chinese tin toy interurban bringing workers to their jobs and in the middle some miscellaneous 6464 box cars awaiting pickup, The Marx crane in the background helps with unloading and the Marx observation tower helps with security and safety.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, it is supposed to be HOT and sunny here in central Texas.

Best Wishes

Don

Strasburg’s new Mogul now in revenue service.

Pete

A variety of 'em for your weekend enjoyment!

Happy FEF…hope everyone’s having a great day!!! 🚂😎

@trumpettrain posted:

Here is my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!!

Sir Patrick, I love that little tank engine! Great photos, too!

Here's my Front End Friday from sunny, but cool, Paradise, CA layout. SP Black Widow F7s with SP Black Widow paint scheme overnight boxcar in tow.

Happy Friday and have a great weekend!

1990 scale Hudson "Flying the W", the Chicago Cubs victory flag.  And a 783 also flying flags.

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Sir Patrick, I love that little tank engine! Great photos, too!

Thanks so much Scott!!

I messed up both my hands in a fall, so no new pics for a while.

Here are pics from a few years ago of my Lionel Freedom Train PA1 and Lionel Centipede pulling the Friendship Train next to each other sort of like the real ones were at Harrisburg, PA, in November 1947.

I thought I'd show a little Lionel history this FEF:

On the left is Lionel's first ever "take" on the PRR S2 turbine, the 1946 671. It features the 671W whistling tender, "smoke bulb" smoke chamber, and the venerable "dual worm drive." On the right is their last cataloged version of this loco, the 1984-85 MPC 6-8404. It uses the same boiler casting as the 671 (in fact, "PART NO. 671-3" is cast into the underside) and features an electronic version of the 2671W tender (with odd-sounding steam and whistle electronics) and "back up" lights, a heating element smoke chamber, and standard single-worm drive. It is essentially a reissue of 1954-55's 682 with electronics and prototypical paint including "6200" road number. These two locomotives represent a time span of almost 40 years, during which Lionel produced thousands of examples.

Too HOT outside for planned outside landscape work here in west central Pa. ..............sooo I'm  in the cool air layout room wishing everyone a safe and happy FEF.

God speed 

Happy FEF !

I’ve been away from this wonderful forum for a few weeks do to traveling. However, today we hooked up the new motor turning the turntable. Happy Front End Friday everyone.

Front end of Boston & Maine #1274.

MELGAR

Happy Front End Friday. Today we have another view of our Southern Pacific “Mallee” (cab forward).

Morning guys I know I am a day late, but wow what great photos and videos! I hope your all having a wonderful weekend!

@mike g. posted:

Morning guys I know I am a day late, but wow what great photos and videos! I hope your all having a wonderful weekend!

What was the last photo you posted ? 🤔

@Dallas Joseph posted:

What was the last photo you posted ? 🤔

LOL This one!

Hope you enjoy!

@leapinlarry- Hey Mate, welcome back!  Hope you had a great trip.  Turntable looks good and video shows that it works great as well.  Best Wishes

Don

@CAPPilot posted:

I messed up both my hands in a fall, so no new pics for a while.

Here are pics from a few years ago of my Lionel Freedom Train PA1 and Lionel Centipede pulling the Friendship Train next to each other sort of like the real ones were at Harrisburg, PA, in November 1947.

Hope you feel better CAPPilot take care of those hands! Mark

@CAPPilot posted:

I messed up both my hands in a fall, so no new pics for a while.

Here are pics from a few years ago of my Lionel Freedom Train PA1 and Lionel Centipede pulling the Friendship Train next to each other sort of like the real ones were at Harrisburg, PA, in November 1947.

Ron,

Best wishes for a quick recovery. Would like to see more Pennsy pictures...

MELGAR

@mike g. posted:

LOL This one!

Hope you enjoy!

@cbq9911a posted:

1990 scale Hudson "Flying the W", the Chicago Cubs victory flag.  And a 783 also flying flags.

Love those flags! We finally beat the "Billy Goat!" I was a Jack Brickhouse kid. Caray was still with the Sox. "Hey-hey! It's a hooome run!" "Five-eight-eight, two-three-hundred...Empire!"

MTH PRR Bobber Caboose

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

MTH PRR Bobber Caboose

Very nice Mark.     Yea... Pennsy cabeese.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

MTH PRR Bobber Caboose

Looks familiar....😁

Bob

Lionel Scale Blue Comet

Visited Steamtown in Scranton and got these two front end shots.
first is an Alco PA

second is a 1925 Baldwin 4-8-2

if you are ever near here, it’s worth the visit.

FEF...a bevy of Lionel UP SD70ACe's.

Donald

Have a good FEF all!  Front end PW Lionel 2018 seeing some tail ends. God and Country!

Happy FEF!

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!    I took these at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore.

Well here is a scene similar to others at places like Harmon, NY or New Haven, Ct where diesel takes over from electric or visa versa.  This is completely imaginary but I thought it sort of resembled that kind of situation.  Here on the L&S, the electric engine is a reproduction of a  French Hornby type 0-PO locomotive, if original this would have been from 1952 however, this is a "Hatchette" reproduction, dating from the 1990's.  Its clockwork and works very well.  The diesel about to take over the train (or maybe give it up) is of course the well known  " Beep" in PRR colors.

Well best wishes to everyone.  Happy F.E.F. and hope you have a great weekend.

Don

Happy FeF!  Here’s the front end of a Low-V coming into the station. I guess in the 1950s they let organ grinders and their monkeys into the subway -

@Strap Hanger- Love your subway pictures but your text piqued my curiosity...what is a "Low-V" ?

Thanks Don