Front End Friday

Here is a picture I took Wednesday. They went heavy on the ballast here.

A beautiful all original Lionel 773 Hudson from 1966 complete with the improperly installed backwards water scoop on its New York Central Tender prepares to leave the rail yard on the Shenandoah Short Line.

Track Foreman overlooking track progression on outer loop main.

Crews off for Holiday. Happy Easter!

Railking

@PRRK4s posted:

Way cool

Prompted by @Strap Hanger here is a set of BMT 2500 Standards. Running here as “The Bankers Special” as indicated by the white disc on the front gate. This train ran on the BMT Brighton Line and terminated on the IND Nassau Loop. 3 trains in the AM and 3 trains in the PM.

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

@pennsyfan posted:

Prompted by @Strap Hanger here is a set of BMT 2500 Standards. Running here as “The Bankers Special” as indicated by the white disc on the front gate. This train ran on the BMT Brighton Line and terminated on the IND Nassau Loop. 3 trains in the AM and 3 trains in the PM.

Very nice, Bob!

WSL #8 is headed back up the hill for another load of logs.  It is taking a boxcar full of dynamite up there to extend the track further up the hill. 

All the snowbirds are heading north soon, but this one is still lingering in AZ.

A little bit of a different 'front end'

walt

Early morning equipment check on the Pennsy PA at the "Charles Street Yard..."

Happy Front End Friday everyone! This week on the layout, I'm running a motley assortment of locomotives, starting with my MTH New Haven Alco PA set. Hmm, that's not snow on the front bonnet... I need to finish my spring cleaning this weekend.

I'm also running my Baldwin DR6 Dual Cab. This is an older "Kustom" that I built several years ago. I still love how those pinstripes came out though.

Last but not least, I'm running my newest front end-- a LIRR Morris Shop "critter" in a fantasy LNE livery. I did a whole writeup on this locomotive last weekend.

Here's the video. Stay safe with the eclipse this weekend-- lots of folks might be stumbling around with tinted glasses on!

New Haven Pacific No. 1389 is steamed up and waiting to back to a local passenger train in the New Haven Station.

Happy FEF everyone.  Here is an MTH NYC J-1e serviced and ready to leave the roundhouse.  Have a great weekend everyone!

Railking

My front-end-view for this Front-End-Friday, April 5, 2024, includes two locomotives. As a fan of the New Haven Railroad, I bought two MTH Premier GE 44-ton diesel switchers (20-20470) with NH road numbers 0807 and 0815. Photos and video show them running double-headed on my 10’-by-5’ layout.

MELGAR

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

Happy FeF!  Here is the front end of a 1970s era R12 pulling out of an elevated station -

@Strap Hanger posted:

Happy FeF!  Here is the front end of a 1970s era R12 pulling out of an elevated station -

@Strap Hanger,

Your layout and trains look so much like Queens!

MELGAR

Happy FEF!

Bob

@MELGAR posted:

@Strap Hanger,

Your layout and trains look so much like Queens!

MELGAR

Thanks Mel.  That's exactly the frame of reference I had for my urban layout, having spent my youth there. Coming from such an outstanding modeler like you, I really appreciate the comment. Of course, the #1 train never ran on the elevated lines in Queens, but hey, these are the liberties one takes with their layouts!

@Strap Hanger posted:

Thanks Mel.  That's exactly the frame of reference I had for my urban layout, having spent my youth there. Coming from such an outstanding modeler like you, I really appreciate the comment. Of course, the #1 train never ran on the elevated lines in Queens, but hey, these are the liberties one takes with their layouts!

It did in the Bronx!

Purchased at October 2023 York   

Have a good weekend FeFers

@Strap Hanger posted:

Thanks Mel.  That's exactly the frame of reference I had for my urban layout, having spent my youth there. Coming from such an outstanding modeler like you, I really appreciate the comment. Of course, the #1 train never ran on the elevated lines in Queens, but hey, these are the liberties one takes with their layouts!

Only a subway expert or a "strap hanger" would know that... My Mom used to take me from Astoria to Macy's 34th Street on the subway but we moved to Long Island when I was eight. That's when I began watching and riding on the LIRR, another of my favorites. So, I'll follow up with a front-end view of a Long Island locomotive.

MELGAR

Busy Friday night at the North Main Street station as the "Chief" pulls in....

Cleaning lady here haven’t been able to get up to the train room. So here’s my FEF for now. Oil painting by Angela Trotta Thomas.

Just had tremor here in NJ so far from Westfield Middletown and me in Farmingdale.

Good morning, everyone.  Hope those in New York City had no issues with the earthquake.

Here are the fronts of the K4 family.

Torpedo, Streamlined, as built, modernized.

Weaver, Willaims, Weaver, Lionel.

UPDATED WITH AS BUILT

Two classic Lionel early post~war workhorses  from the mid 1940s stage a meet on the Shenandoah Short Line.  Lionel O gauge 675 “Pacific” on the outer loop meets its 027 cousin 2025 “Pacific” on the inner loop.  Smooth and silent runners even with the wrong 2-6-2 wheel configuration.

Happy FEF everyone!  Here's a front-end view of a Lionel Legacy Reading & Northern SD38...

And here's a "studio shot"...

@CNJ #1601 posted:

Happy FEF everyone!  Here's a front-end view of a Lionel Legacy Reading & Northern SD38...

And here's a "studio shot"...

Great Backdrop and photo skills!

Happy FEF

Here’s a Kusan FA from Space set.

Unique Art # 1950 on point of Circus train  

MTH GG1 # 4850 with Pennsylvania Limited

Williams Camelback #631 with NJC commuter train

Local trolley

Though the Great Northeastern Railway's motive power is primarily steam and electric, we have a small Diesel fleet and are occasionally visited be far-western railway equipment. So, today on FEF, we feature the Lionel, post-war, Santa Fe, A-B-A, F-3 Diesel.

@MELGAR posted:

Only a subway expert or a "strap hanger" would know that... My Mom used to take me from Astoria to Macy's 34th Street on the subway but we moved to Long Island when I was eight. That's when I began watching and riding on the LIRR, another of my favorites. So, I'll follow up with a front-end view of a Long Island locomotive.

MELGAR

Hi Mel,

Nice photos as usual from your great layouts'..

did you scratch build the bridge, or is it a kit.. I'm looking for that type of bridge for a new layout I'll be working on shortly'..

Thanks'..

Nothing says Springtime like the bright Spring sunlight on the front end of an inbound Penn Central steel coil train.  Old video, enjoy!  Jim

Nice to see so many videos and stills on the Forum these days.   What a great way to start the weekend. 

I'll throw one in .........

MTH ps3 Electric for this FEF.                                                   Make it a safe and fun weekend.    God speed all.

@coach joe posted:

Great Backdrop and photo skills!

Thanks, Coach!

Happy FEF!

K-Line S2 pulling a few ore cars.