Front End Friday

Happy FEF. A couple of Ives transition era freight sets. 258 on the left with 1700 series cars and a 257 on the right with 1600 series cars.

@RSJB18 posted:

Happy FEF!

Bob

Bob is this the Lionel GP20?

@coach joe posted:

Bob is this the Lionel GP20?

Yep....MPC vintage.

Freshly rolling in for Front End Friday... my custom-built WEMCO 110-ton diesel in quasi-fantasy LNE livery. I just finished writing up a build report for it complete with a video, check it out here if you're interested!

*edit to correct typo

@Sitka posted:

Nice looking Trainmaster Bill good luck with your find, by looking at that table your fleet is growing pretty quick

Thanks, Mark! I'm trying to keep up with you. Speaking of which, wait 'til you see what I've got for tomorrow...

@Don McErlean posted:

@Trainmaster04- Really liked your "night" scenes, the lighting effect was great.  Especially on the locomotive in picture #3 from the top.  Super job! @Bill Swatos- neat new Trainmaster, she really looks good! @Strap Hanger - Like the subway photos, I wonder who got picked to put the graffiti on that platform lower wall, talk about brave! (or stupid).  @leapinlarry - super photos of your layout.

Here is a F.E.F. contrast in both time and size.  The American Flyer (Chicago Flyer) wide gauge 4644 locomotive from the 1930's and the #1211 O gauge locomotive from the 1920's.  One designed to resemble the NH box cab electric on the NY-New Haven run and the other to resemble the NYC "S" class locomotive for use in and around Grand Central station in NY.

Well I am headed back to Texas tomorrow at the end of my vacation trip with the grandson.  So I will be absent from the forum for a few days.  Hope to see everyone early next week.

Best Wishes

Don

Safe travels, Don. Stay cool; it's over 120 degrees here in Rancho Mirage CA!

@trumpettrain posted:

Here are my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   Fridget front ends.  A little something to bring down the temperature if only in our minds.  

Thanks for the "cooldown," Patrick! You are the "king" of snow scenes.

Bill thanks for your good wishes. Wow your temp is even higher than Texas. Come east and we will cool off and run trains

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@Trainmaster04- Really liked your "night" scenes, the lighting effect was great.  Especially on the locomotive in picture #3 from the top.  Super job! @Bill Swatos- neat new Trainmaster, she really looks good! @Strap Hanger - Like the subway photos, I wonder who got picked to put the graffiti on that platform lower wall, talk about brave! (or stupid).  @leapinlarry - super photos of your layout.

Here is a F.E.F. contrast in both time and size.  The American Flyer (Chicago Flyer) wide gauge 4644 locomotive from the 1930's and the #1211 O gauge locomotive from the 1920's.  One designed to resemble the NH box cab electric on the NY-New Haven run and the other to resemble the NYC "S" class locomotive for use in and around Grand Central station in NY.

Well I am headed back to Texas tomorrow at the end of my vacation trip with the grandson.  So I will be absent from the forum for a few days.  Hope to see everyone early next week.

Best Wishes

Don

Thanks Don. Love your tinplate photos as well . Have a safe trip back.

@Trainguy Ken posted:

Freshly rolling in for Front End Friday... my custom-built WEMCO 110-ton diesel in quasi-fantasy LNE livery. I just finished writing up a build report for it complete with a video, check it out here if you're interested!

*edit to correct typo

Had to look this up.  From the photos of the real one it looks like you did a great job.

@Strap Hanger - thanks for your comment and good wishes for our trip.

Don

@Bill Swatos posted:

Thanks for the "cooldown," Patrick! You are the "king" of snow scenes.

Bill thank you for kind words!  

MTH RK NYC Hudson on test track at NJHR.

@Bill Swatos posted:

Thanks, Mark! I'm trying to keep up with you. Speaking of which, wait 'til you see what I've got for tomorrow...

Bill, Looking forward to seeing that fine loco

Good evening, FeF'ers,

Finally got my K-Line Shay back. These are the first pictures of it since 2007.

Happy FEF - An engine in normal road paint, an engine in Heritage paint, and an engine in Safety paint. The two NS ES44AC engines are M.T.H., the Genesis is an Atlas engine.

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

Have a great FEF…🚂😉

Happy FEF!

Latest addition to the fleet MTH Railking SW-1 w/PS3

Bob

Happy FeF from the subway. Here is an R1 coming into the station. Fortunately, the little graffiti kids have plenty of room to work their trade -

RS3 by K-Lionel. Kinda surprised Lionel hasn’t reissued this in its Legacy line. Very nicely detailed.

Mark, it's beautiful (EL RS3, does it have TMCC?

Very sharp Bob.

Strap, you need some moving platforms to get those passengers on and off.

Mark, K-Line made a very nice RS3.  Lionel shoud have made more use of it.

Yes it has TMCC with a great horn, vg smoke, and I had CCM added by Pat (harmonyards). Crew talk is the usual garbled junk. Great puller, good heft. Came out in 2008? in several road names. K-Line also made the RS3 in Circus Transport, Cotton Belt, Long Island, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Reading, Rock Island, and Southern Pacific. In another thread regarding this particular engine, a poster mentioned that Williams now has this tooling. If WBB has it, it’s history.

Happy Front end Friday Everyone…. Also, have a great weekend…

Have a good FeF all!

Good morning FEFers.  Brought out the Q1 this morning.

ADDED: Some side-rod action.

OK as a Marx enthusiast, here (going to school on Trumptrain) are a couple of hard working front ends parked at the Marx freight station waiting to load.

Ready to take up her load, here is a American Flyer (Chicago Flyer) #3308 Type X locomotive from 1932-33.  P.S. at 90 years old which is just a short 12 years from now for me, I hope I still look this good and my light still works!! . 

Best wishes for a great weekend everyone.  Please be careful outside in this terrible heat!

Don

I'm getting ready to host a big house party tomorrow, which will invariably result in a trip to the Train Room with my niece and nephew. Four Front Ends ready for service this Friday!

Front End #1 is my big MTH scale Hudson. A family favorite and a very reliable runner too.

Front Ends #2 through #4 are a P5A Modified with working pantographs, my custom Lionchief WEMCO and an old favorite, my PCC streetcar.

Testing it all out to make sure everything is good to go!

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Yes it has TMCC with a great horn, vg smoke, and I had CCM added by Pat (harmonyards). Crew talk is the usual garbled junk. Great puller, good heft. Came out in 2008? in several road names. K-Line also made the RS3 in Circus Transport, Cotton Belt, Long Island, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Reading, Rock Island, and Southern Pacific. In another thread regarding this particular engine, a poster mentioned that Williams now has this tooling. If WBB has it, it’s history.

I always wanted one of the NYC RS3s

@leapinlarry posted:

Happy Front end Friday Everyone…. Also, have a great weekend…

Once again, "The Best Toys"!

@Strap Hanger posted:

WOW!!! And I thought 14th Street/Union Square had a wide gap

Very nice scene - I remember riding on those cars in my long lost youth!!!

What a great Front End Friday, lots of great photos and videos today!

Here's a couple of front ends in video. Santa Fe F3 Warbonnets side by side waiting for track orders.

Railking FEF.   Had to move passengers over the mountain route.

Storms and humidity are gone and nice sun and breeze.

Enjoy the day.  Keep busy . God bless..

@coach joe posted:

I always wanted one of the NYC RS3s

Joe, MTH makes a pretty nice PS-3 RK NYC RS3. I've got the same loco as an RS1 in ESPN livery and she runs and sounds great! See Mark's recommendation below.

Or, Coach, as an cheaper alternative to eBay, you can purchase a brand new NYC RS3 from a forum sponsor, JR Junction, shown as in stock.

And, Phil also has a sweet NYC H10-44.

Railking GP20 PS3, doing triple duty:

Happy FEF!

Boston and Maine RS3 (MTH Railking w/PS2)

Bob

Happy Front End Friday fellows, have a fun weekend to all….@RSJB18 Bob, that’s a beautiful Boston and Maine switcher, I love the color scheme….

Lionel Reading 0-6-0T #1251

MELGAR