Front End Friday

Here's my ends of the front kind for this very fine Friday!   K line box cab front end and a Lionel 0-8-0 front end with the front end of a K line A5 shoving a caboose.  

Ken, I spy a Menard's Cavana in the background.

Mark that RK GP20 sure has a lot more detail than my MPC era Chessie GP20.

Happy FeF!  Here’s the front end of the 7 train getting ready to pull out of the elevated station -

Have a good FeF some PW Lionel and MPC Power

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A pair of New Haven I-5's bookend a New York, Ontario and Western F3 set and a New Haven Mountain, all standing in New Haven's Cedar Hill yard waiting for orders.

Being watched over by @Scott Smith

walt

My front-end views for this Friday, April 19, 2024, show New York Central GP9 #6001 at the head end of a freight train with 4 boxcars and NYC caboose #19877. Videos show the train running on the O-72 outer loop of my 12'-by-8' layout.

MELGAR

The front end of my newly purchased Williams Santa Fe ALCO FA-1 with separately installed cab crew.

Hey Vern, did you just add crew members or a whole cab insert?

@Yellowstone Special posted:

The front end of my newly purchased Williams Santa Fe ALCO FA-1 with separately installed cab crew.

I've seen those guys someplace before......

Maybe the headlights are not on at the moment, but here is my motive power ready to roll on the layout today:

@RSJB18 posted:

I've seen those guys someplace before......

Well whadaya know? These guys also man the cab of my Union Pacific Legacy F7A. I ordered a couple of extras from Lionel parts to install into my Williams Santa Fe and Union Pacific ALCO FA-1s. Had to do some surgery removing the front panel and the lower part of the motor shroud to accommodate that Williams incandescent light bulb which is right smack in the way. That's when the Dremel attachments come in handy. 😉

Good eye!

@coach joe posted:

Hey Vern, did you just add crew members or a whole cab insert?

Sorry Coach, I must have missed seeing your post. See above. I had to get the whole cab insert, then cut it up to fit.

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Well whadaya know? These guys also man the cab of my Union Pacific Legacy F7A. I ordered a couple of extras from Lionel parts to install into my Wiliams Santa Fe and Union Pacific ALCO FA-1s. Had to do some surgery removing the front panel and the lower part of the motor shroud to accommodate that Williams incandescent light bulb which is right smack in the way. That's when the Dremel attachments come in handy. 😉

Good eye!

had to do similar surgery on mine for a RS3 too.

It's about time the CN C-Liner came into service after several years in the box.  New battery, oiled , and greased ready for duty to rescue those beer reefers full and ready to roll!  Great sounds from the lead engine...

Lionel 259E ready to start the evening's work !  (259E made 1933-1942)

Happy F.E.F. everyone

Best Wishes

Don

Happy FEF!!

Vern I just couldn't tell if I was seeing that curved back wall or not.

@coach joe posted:

Vern I just couldn't tell if I was seeing that curved back wall or not.

Yep, it’s there fitting nicely around the front motor. I just had to cut out the bottom portion of it, so it would fit over the headlight bulb.

Happy FEF

This NJ Department of Transportation GG1 followed me home from YORK. A GG1 that I didn’t have on my roster.

CR retired their freight fleet of GG-1's in 1979, but NJDOT-contracted GG-1's 4872-4884 saw their operating days extended to the fall of 1983.

Happy FEF everyone!

Getting ready to set up displays and demos at a local STEAM festival.  That is STEM with an A for the Arts.  Not sure I agree with that, but it is not my event.  Here are two freight haulers on the ready line, the hare and the tortoise.

MTH Q2 and Y3 (PRR HH1)

@pennsyfan posted:

Happy FEF

This NJ Department of Transportation GG1 followed me home from YORK. A GG1 that I didn’t have on my roster.

CR retired their freight fleet of GG-1's in 1979, but NJDOT-contracted GG-1's 4872-4884 saw their operating days extended to the fall of 1983.

What are my options for converting this conventional engine. All it has is an electronic E-unit. A G horn, maybe revs and brakes would be nice. I guess a step up would be train control.

@pennsyfan posted:

What are my options for converting this conventional engine. All it has is an electronic E-unit. A G horn, maybe revs and brakes would be nice. I guess a step up would be train control.

Bob- Does your engine have pullmors or can motors? It it's can motors then I refer you to my Weaver RS3 upgrade. I used a Lionchief/ Bluetooth board. Not sure if Lionel has done an electric in the LC line but it's an option.

If it has pullmor motors then a ERR AC Commander would be in order.

Bob

Buy another GG1 with the innards you want and swap shells.

@RSJB18 posted:

Bob- Does your engine have pullmors or can motors? It it's can motors then I refer you to my Weaver RS3 upgrade. I used a Lionchief/ Bluetooth board. Not sure if Lionel has done an electric in the LC line but it's an option.

If it has pullmor motors then a ERR AC Commander would be in order.

Bob

I should have taken a picture of the box. I forget. Back to you later.

@RSJB18 posted:

Bob- Does your engine have pullmors or can motors? It it's can motors then I refer you to my Weaver RS3 upgrade. I used a Lionchief/ Bluetooth board. Not sure if Lionel has done an electric in the LC line but it's an option.

If it has pullmor motors then a ERR AC Commander would be in order.

Bob

Bob,

My error; I never said that this is a K-Line engine. It has two vertical motors. There was an option for TMCC; but this unit wasn’t equipped.

@RSJB18 posted:

Bob- Does your engine have pullmors or can motors? It it's can motors then I refer you to my Weaver RS3 upgrade. I used a Lionchief/ Bluetooth board. Not sure if Lionel has done an electric in the LC line but it's an option.

If it has pullmor motors then a ERR AC Commander would be in order.

Bob

Bob(s) - Lionel has issued a traditional sized GG1, in LC 2.0+. No idea if a shell swap across the K-Line and Lionel brands would work.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Bob(s) - Lionel has issued a traditional sized GG1, in LC 2.0+. No idea if a shell swap across the K-Line and Lionel brands would work.

Thanks Mark,

That’s a pretty expensive fix. @Apples55 You’re not talking to Paul here.

@pennsyfan posted:

Bob,

My error; I never said that this is a K-Line engine. It has two vertical motors. There was an option for TMCC; but this unit wasn’t equipped.

As long as it has DC motors, then a LC/BT board would work. The motors would have to be wired in series since these boards only have 1 motor output.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Bob(s) - Lionel has issued a traditional sized GG1, in LC 2.0+. No idea if a shell swap across the K-Line and Lionel brands would work.

Thanks Mark. 2.0+ needs the feedback loop that I mentioned. Only LC/BT boards or original LC boards are kind of plug-n-play.

The experts can weigh in but I think when Lionel started adding Legacy features to LC they had to add the feedback which improves speed control.

Bob

@pennsyfan posted:

Thanks Mark,

That’s a pretty expensive fix. @Apples55 You’re not talking to Paul here.

Say what??? How did I get involved in this??? I am a proud self-confessed techno-peasant who would NEVER mess with electronics (I’d probably burn the engine down ). Also, as many of you know, I don’t do conventional

Have a great start of your weekend, by a Veteran a beer or two.

My front-end views for Friday, April 26, 2024 show New York Central SW8 diesel switcher #9620 heading toward the camera on the back straight of my 10’-by-5’ model railroad. The model was made by Atlas O and delivered in 2001 with MSRP $349.95.

MELGAR

TGIFEF - Railking, and hopefully, haven’t used this pic before🙏🏻

Happy FEF!

A front end of a smaller kind.

Friday already? Wow! Happy FeF! Here is an R27 on the 7 line traversing the midtown el -

Happy FEF!

Lehigh and New England S2 swapping loads for empties. She should have some company any minute now......

Bob

Here's my end of the front kind for this fine Friday!  A Lionel scale B&O P 27 Pacific - The President Harrison.   I bought this loco at York last week.

Beauty and the Beast?  Well maybe not too much. Mountain No. 3301  faces Hudson type I-5 No. 1409 on the opposite track .