Front End Friday

Here are a couple of "front ends" a few decades apart.  First the classic Lionel Berkshire from the 1950's.  One of the largest steamers Lionel put out in the post war period and it headed many of Lionel's top outfits.

Then from 3 decades earlier, the American Flyer ( Chicago Flyer) #1211 steeple cab of the 1920's.

Well its foggy this morning and I have to go teach my class so I'm off!  Best wishes

Don

Here’s an engineer figure a high school classmate carved and painted for my layout. Looks like he’s about ready to mount up and take the GP9 out. 😉

Happy FeF!  More subway yard front end shots -

A trio of New Haven Mountain types wait their call in the Cedar Hill New Haven yard on my New Haven/New York Ontario and Western layout. The Mountain in the middle belongs to Chris Vigarito, a raiboy from the Mahopac area of New York. Chris has super detailed it and has posted his progress on it on the Forum over the past few months. The Mountain ran just as good as it looks.Great job Chris.

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!    RS 1 approaches on outside mainline as a 44 tonner heads up a short freight on the inside main.

RS 1 west bound with way freght.

Happy FEF!

Running some tea pots this week.

Bob

Back up on another FEF  .         With a Gp60 joining the F7s needed for the steep climb out over the Allegheny mountain's Horseshoe Curve.   Harrisburg visit was great but can't wait to get back home out west.

Lashup with ps3  Premiers for this front end.

2 powered A F7s  , a nonpowered B unit  ,  1 powered Gp60  , and  a nonpowered  rear A unit .

God speed all.

So Dallas, 5 engines to pull 4 cars? 🤔 They ARE beautiful, though. 😉👍

And by the way, since when is Du Bois, PA “out west?” 😂

Great looking train, Dallas! Shiny!

Here’s a recent acquisition from a fellow forumite. Railking, and I was not expecting the pacemaker green color; a pleasant suprise!

I took this photo on the Golden Gate Lionel RR Club layout. The layout was on display at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos CA.

All 3 engines are mine. The UP 4-8-4 was an unpainted model that I painted and lettered a few years back. The SP 4-8-4 is pulling a sting of American Freedom freight cars.

Ray

Happy FEF!

Happy FEF!

@Yellowstone Special posted:

So Dallas, 5 engines to pull 4 cars? 🤔 They ARE beautiful, though. 😉👍

And by the way, since when is Du Bois, PA “out west?” 😂

Thank you sir Yellowstone Special .

That Horseshoe Curve is a monster Ray.   5 engines on the O31s    uphill is a bunch.

Well Ray , DuBois is somewhat west of that area and only 4 cars does need a lot of horses to get those big  passengers over the Alleghenies after all the overly generous dining that took place .   

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Thank you sir Yellowstone Special .

That Horseshoe Curve is a monster Ray.   5 engines on the O31s    uphill is a bunch.

Well Ray , DuBois is somewhat west of that area and only 4 cars does need a lot of horses to get those big  passengers over the Alleghenies after all the overly generous dining that took place .   

Ah, I guess I didn’t think of that. 😉

Latest project.

Pete

3 PRR engines in the Great Northeastern Railway's Mt. Carroll Yard on a foggy morning, awaiting their day's assignments.

Hooked to their respective trains, the same 3 engines await clearance to leave Mt. Carroll yard on their daily journeys.

@Randy Harrison posted:

3 PRR engines in the Great Northeastern Railway's Mt. Carroll Yard on a foggy morning, awaiting their day's assignments.

Definitely looks appropriate to me Randy.

We've been covered in fog for the last few days with this warm up.  Temp is going the other way now though.

Great looking photo sir.

GM Aero Train

Happy Front End Friday all! Another great turnout in this thread, lots of awesome photos and video's to enjoy!

Here's a quick video with Southern Pacific, last run for SP for awhile, gonna put Santa Fe and WP on the rails tonight for a change. Rounding the corner horns blasting on the approach.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Great looking train, Dallas! Shiny!

Here’s a recent acquisition from a fellow forumite. Railking, and I was not expecting the pacemaker green color; a pleasant suprise!

Mark, a fine acquisition! From the photo that Railking seems more detailed then most, and the paint job is spot on! Enjoy, looks great on your layout!

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Back up on another FEF  .         With a Gp60 joining the F7s needed for the steep climb out over the Allegheny mountain's Horseshoe Curve.   Harrisburg visit was great but can't wait to get back home out west.

Lashup with ps3  Premiers for this front end.

2 powered A F7s  , a nonpowered B unit  ,  1 powered Gp60  , and  a nonpowered  rear A unit .

God speed all.

Dallas, now that is a great lash up! Shiny too! Great Video.

@pennsyfan posted:

GM Aero Train

The Aerotrain was a streamlined trainset that the General Motors (GM) Electro-Motive Division introduced in 1955. GM originally designated the light-weight consist as Train-Y before the company adopted the Aerotrain marketing name.

GM based the EMD LWT12's power components on those in the EMD SW1200 switcher. Like the SW1200, the LWT12 used the company's model EMD 567C 12-cylinder prime mover that could produce 1,200 horsepower.^[6] The power car featured a cab that mimicked an aircraft's cockpit. The locomotive's overall design was similar to that of General Motors automobiles at the time.

Hmm . . . strong family resemblance to my 84 year old Marx M100005:

@Steve Tyler posted:

Hmm . . . strong family resemblance to my 84 year old Marx M100005:

Kind of hard to compare at that speed. Do you have a still shot?

@Norton posted:

Latest project.

Pete

Oh? Fixed pilots/scale couplers? They look great.

Hard to beat that look, even if I can't use it as a trailing unit. Atlas F2, from parts included.

Thanks D. The one with the coupler cover is a casting that used a 3rd Rail pilot as a master. The Central green sports a Lionel scale F3 pilot. The B unit is a repainted Weaver on a K-Line chassis.

Pete

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Dallas, now that is a great lash up! Shiny too! Great Video.

Thanks Scott.     Gotta run now ........need to find something to keep those girls shiny.

@pennsyfan posted:

Kind of to compare at that speed. Do you have a still shot?

"Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup . . ."

Good afternoon, FEFers,

Before I sold my MTH RK PRR 2-8-0, I took a photo of it next to my Weaver H10.  The RK engine, while much less detailed, did capture the major detail elements fairly well.

Happy FEF everyone!  Here is NKP #765 by MTH.

Wow, Happy Front End Friday Everyone, @rjsmithindy, Wow what a beautiful 765 standing Tall, awesome picture, @Melgar, Mel, I love looking at pictures of your beautifully built model railroads, simply stunning, Your attention to detail is amazing, @Don McErlean, wow, that’s a beautiful 1950’s “Lionel 736”, it is one of my favorite steamers as well as the 773…. Amazing pictures and videos everyone. Today, you will see the Corvette Club having lunch at the K-Line Starlite Diner, there cars out front make our memories of days gone by a lot of fun. Also, pictured of some real heavy steam power is from Dr. Jack Fishers transfer table, a lot of power in a small space. Happy Railroading Everyone

FEF.

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

FEF.

Good looking BL2 Johan.

Always appreciate seeing scenes from your layout sir.

God speed.

@MELGAR posted:

My model of New Haven Railroad Alco RS-1#0668 was made by Atlas O (6888-2, MSRP $429.95) in 2004. Here are some Front-End Friday views of #0668 for January 26, 2024.

MELGAR

This handsome similar NH unit below was my first introduction to MTH's RK Scale RS1s and their amazing Alco sound set some 12 or so years ago!   What does yours have for sound?

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Good looking BL2 Johan.

Always appreciate seeing scenes from your layout sir.

God speed.

Dallas.

Thank you very much. I'm very happy that I finally got the potato houses in place and I love that Maine landscape, not to mention the BL-2 of Bangor & Aroostook.

Johan

First FEF of February.

Have a good weekend all God Bless our Troops!

My focus for Front End Friday on February 2, 2024 is New Haven Railroad #792 – acquired from Fairbanks-Morse in 1952. The model was made by Lionel with tooling that originated from MTH.

MELGAR

Railking

Happy FEF!

A big Friday wave from the MOW crew.

Bob