Front End Friday

@RSJB18 posted:

Oh Great! Another paint scheme to find........

As always, Bob, glad to help

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Sincerely;

A. Bad Influence 8

Wow guys sure are some great engines! and I love how you guys go out of your way to help Bob spend his money on more paint jobs! LOL

I am sorry I have nothing new to share and I have no layout right now, but here is something from the past!

To be honest I can't remember if I still have this one! LOL

I hope you all have a great weekend and fun with your trains!

@Apples55 posted:

As always, Bob, glad to help

https://mrmuffinstrains.com/products/mth-30-21211

Sincerely;

A. Bad Influence 8

I knew you've been too quiet lately.......

I think @Mark V. Spadaro needs an honorable mention here too........

@trumpettrain posted:

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

Great weathering job Patrick.

Have a good Front end Friday all!

Happy FEF.

My old Lionel 2020 turbine and Marx 6000 in the background.

Two early TMCC Lionel Geeps.  One from the Milwaukee Road and the other Burlington.  Both good runners with great horns.

@coach joe posted:

Great weathering job Patrick.

Thank you so much Coach Joe!!

@mike g. posted:

Nice Run Ken, just wondering what is the size of your layout?

My layout is roughly 8ft x 25ft. As you can see from the videos, it pretty much fills my basement. I made a walkaround video of the whole layout last year, here's an embedded link to it.

Happy Front End Friday everyone! This week I'm running some CNJ, which means a mixture of tinplate and scale. I'm running my custom 3D printed Baldwin DR6 "Double Ended". Many of you have seen this locomotive before, but I did a writeup on this build a while back.

My only Central Railroad of New Jersey steamer is this 249e. This is a MTH Lionel Corp locomotive with all the bells and whistles, one of my better pulling tinplate locos.

On that tinplate note, here's my fully restored vintage 262e on the conventional loop under the city.

And of course they all run!

Happy Front End Friday y'all.

HAPPY FEF Everyone!
Here is aLionel Legacy, Panama Canal Railway  F 40PH, number 1863; named City of Diablo. You’ll notice the resemblance to KCS. The Railway is jointly owned by KCS and Mi-Jack products.

My front end for this Friday, March 1, 2024 is Boston & Maine USRA 0-8-0 Steam Switcher #617 – an MTH Railking model with PS2 that I bought in 2001. Most of the photos and the video were taken as the engine made its way out of the tunnel, across the bridge, along the back straight, and behind the Idaho Hotel on my 10’-by-5’ layout.

MELGAR

Happy Friday everyone enjoy your weekend. Staying with Mel’s lead.

Setting up to refuel with a busy day tomorrow.

Gene

Run some trains its FeF God Speed All!

Happy FEF!

A couple ALCO's.

Bob

Railking

During my layout's era, the late 1940s, there were several specialty trains roaming the country.  I have two complete trains and working on a third.  The two complete trains I have are the 1947-1949 Freedom Train, and the GM Train of Tomorrow which also ran from 1947 to 1949.  Here are their front ends for today’s FEF.

Unfortunately, both these sets have been on the shelf for a while.  My goal for next week is to get them down and take some videos of them running.

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

Railking new RSD-5, METCA custom B&O scheme.

Here are the front ends of my 2 favorite "yellow cab" freight diesels, a Union Pacific Legacy GP9 and a Santa Fe Legacy GP30. Both are workhorses on the freight train side of the layout.

My 3 J's.

See a detailed comparison video here: https://youtu.be/knH4Ao20qZQ?si=HoYW_KN3Q4uqheOQ

FEF.

Following pennsyfan's lead with the Panama Canal RW which has KCS coloring, here is the Marx FM #54 in KCS colors, the A unit made 1956-1960 and the matching B unit made 1957-1960.

Here is the AB unit with set 8965 showing the entire train including the Marx KCS 7" caboose.

Best wishes Friday front end fans :

Don

March 1st Front End Friday with a Marx 333 & 999.

@tnkMarx-handsome steamers for sure, 2 of the very best Marx offered.

Don

Nickel Plate FEF today.  Have a great weekend everyone!

Lionel Great Northern F3 ABBA’s from the early 1990s head up the Great Northern Empire Builder Lionel passenger consist from the same era as it prepares to leave the station for Glacier National Park.

Happy Front End Friday everyone! This week on the layout, I've been running some western motive power. This includes my favorite interurban, the PCC Car.

I'm also running my CB&Q "Aeolus", one of my favorite streamlined steamers. A clever reuse of the C&O Yellow Belly molds by MTH.

Here's the video!

Happy Friday everyone enjoy your weekend.

Happy Front End Friday. Hope everyone has a great weekend of railroading!

Morning Front End Friday fans, enjoy your weekend God Speed All!

Happy FEF

Here’s an MTH Proto 1 Shay WVP&P #12

Here’s one of my favorites MTH GG1 4850 was upgraded to Proto 2

Happy FEF!

A Pennsy 44 Tonner on the head of the local commuter run today.

Bob

Headed to Grapevine, TX Lone Star Hi-Railers Train-A-Palooza.  Happiest of Front End Fridays !!

My front end views for Friday, March 8, 2024 are models of two locomotives that ran in Maine – a 2-8-0 steamer and an F3 diesel.

Photos and first video show a front end view of my Weaver die-cast model of Maine Central Class W 2-8-0 Consolidation #501 running conventionally on my 12’-by-8’ layout pulling a freight train with cars from Maine.

MEC #501 was built by Alco Schenectady in 1910. Tractive effort was 37,000 pounds, locomotive weight was 198,000 pounds and total weight (loco and tender) was 348,000 pounds. #501 was retired in 1958 and is currently under restoration at the Conway Scenic Railroad in New Hampshire.

Photos and second video show a front end view of Maine Central F3 #686, a smooth-running MTH Premier model (20-21458-1) pulling two Boston & Maine passenger cars through one of the truss bridges on my layout. The B&M had a financial interest in the MEC and mixed consists of B&M and MEC equipment ran between Boston & Portland, Maine.

MELGAR

Happy FeF!  Here’s an R12 on the number 7 line coming around the bend -

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

@pennsyfan posted:

Happy FEF

Here’s one of my favorites MTH GG1 4850 was upgraded to Proto 2

@pennsyfan

Bob:

I love the old, classic Brunswick Green, small Keystone, 5 pin striped PRR GG-1. It is my favorite locomotive. I rode behind those many times on the PRR Northeast Corridor. The GG-1 was the best, all-purpose engine. It did passenger service and freight service. A single GG-1 could pull a train of 18 PRR heavyweight passenger coaches out of Penn Station, NY, up the steep grade of the Hudson tunnel and easily hit the Jersey meadowlands at 80 MPH. Also later, when the Metroliner trainsets rattled themselves loose and had to be taken out of service for repair, the GG-1s, though there were disclaimers of possible delays in passenger timetables due to alternate Metroliner equipment, proved that they could reach enough speed to keep Metroliner schedules. I was heartbroken when the GG-1s were taken out of service and were lined up north of Wilmington shops awaiting their last trips to the scrap yard.