Front End Friday

Have a good start to your FEF!

Front end of an R12 on the elevated sidetrack with an RS1 below -

Lionel

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Happy FeF!

It's Front End Bloody Nose Friday here in Paradise, CA.

You all have a great weekend!

Hey, those guys look familiar. Nice shot, Scott.

Here's a couple of front end shots of my latest Santa Fe and Union Pacific motive power currently on the layout.

From one of my Christmas Layouts

- walt

Meeting of the powerful to discuss all the BEEPS and Plymouths running around.

@pennsyfan posted:

Meeting of the powerful to discuss all the BEEPS and Plymouths running around.

No picture Bob.

Gene

@Genemed posted:

No picture Bob.

Gene

Gene when I brought up your reply it was there.

@pennsyfan posted:

Gene when I brought up your reply it was there.

It must be on my end then because I see a blank box with a small ? in the middle or image not found.

Gene

@Genemed posted:

It must be on my end then because I see a blank box with a small ? in the middle or image not found.

Gene

I reposted it.

Dreaming of snow.

Well here is my "new" Brimtoy (U.K.) locomotive showing off her red boiler and black boiler front.  She is an 0-4-0 clockwork loco that came in a wonderful set (posted on the tinplate thread) from England last week.  While I do not have a perfect date of manufacture, her tender carries the post railway nationalization name and symbol for Great Britain which makes her post 1948.  I put her date of manufacture somewhere in the 1950's.

Here she is in side view.  Note the "Lion and Wheel" symbol on the tender with the name "British Rail Ways" (spelled as three words interestingly).  She is bright red, has no rust or corrosion, and runs great, not bad for nearly 75 years  old!  She came in a set with 2 coaches, 2-rail track, and a gated roadway crossing .

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well here is my "new" Brimtoy (U.K.) locomotive showing off her red boiler and black boiler front.  She is an 0-4-0 clockwork loco that came in a wonderful set (posted on the tinplate thread) from England last week.  While I do not have a perfect date of manufacture, her tender carries the post railway nationalization name and symbol for Great Britain which makes her post 1948.  I put her date of manufacture somewhere in the 1950's.

Here she is in side view.  Note the "Lion and Wheel" symbol on the tender with the name "British Rail Ways" (spelled as three words interestingly).  She is bright red, has no rust or corrosion, and runs great, not bad for nearly 75 years  old!  She came in a set with 2 coaches, 2-rail track, and a gated roadway crossing .

Best Wishes

Don

That's gorgeous Don.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well here is my "new" Brimtoy (U.K.) locomotive showing off her red boiler and black boiler front.  She is an 0-4-0 clockwork loco that came in a wonderful set (posted on the tinplate thread) from England last week.  While I do not have a perfect date of manufacture, her tender carries the post railway nationalization name and symbol for Great Britain which makes her post 1948.  I put her date of manufacture somewhere in the 1950's.

Here she is in side view.  Note the "Lion and Wheel" symbol on the tender with the name "British Rail Ways" (spelled as three words interestingly).  She is bright red, has no rust or corrosion, and runs great, not bad for nearly 75 years  old!  She came in a set with 2 coaches, 2-rail track, and a gated roadway crossing .

Best Wishes

Don

Congrats Don! Another magnificent piece of rolling art.

Lots of great FeF posts today! Vern, awesome PA's on your layout.

My FeF is of two rivalries across the tracks front end to front end. Southern Pacific and Western Pacific management did not like each other, and they had constant legal battles going on to sabotage one another's business. However, the employees are all fellow railroaders and most get along, probably to managements dismay. Floyd on the other hand, a SP employee standing in front of the yellow Power Wagon, wants nothing to do with WP and looks the other way!

NYC passenger trains approaching Grand Central Station on the SOUTH FORK RAILROAD.

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

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Lots of great FeF posts today! Vern, awesome PA's on your layout.

My FeF is of two rivalries across the tracks front end to front end. Southern Pacific and Western Pacific management did not like each other, and they had constant legal battles going on to sabotage one another's business. However, the employees are all fellow railroaders and most get along, probably to managements dismay. Floyd on the other hand, a SP employee standing in front of the yellow Power Wagon, wants nothing to do with WP and looks the other way!

Thank you, Scott. I like the narrative that goes with your awesome photo.

Both of the engines in my photos above are Williams ALCO FA-1s. Union Pacific used them for freight operations in the late 1940s/early 50s. But the Santa Fe never operated ALCO Fs, just Ps. Both sets showed up on eBay at the same time at reasonable prices. So, I just had to get them, because I like their graphics and they are excellent runners. 😉

A pair of SD90MAC pulling autos.

@Dave Ripp. and @pennsyfan :  Dave and Bob - thank you for the compliments on my Brimtoy locomotive.  I appreciate it especially coming from fellow collectors/operators like yourselves.  Best Wishes

Don

My front-end view for Friday May 17^th 2024 shows my Lionchief Plus 2.0 model of Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal 0-6-0T steam switcher #15 (2032020). It’s the smallest O gauge steam engine model in my collection. Lionel lists its length as 8.5 inches.

Model Railroader Cyclopedia – Volume 1 – Steam Locomotives, by Linn H. Westcott, has a drawing on page 32 of a 1910 Alco 0-6-0T industrial steam switcher that appears to be the prototype for Lionel’s model. It shows a length of about 32 feet (8 inches in 1:48 O scale) over coupler faces with 44-inch driving-wheel diameter.

Video shows BEDT #15 heading southbound on the back straight of my 10’-by-5’ layout.

MELGAR

I used this image before in one of my count'UP's in the picture a day thread, but I like it so I will use it here too.

- walt

Here's the front end of a freight mover and a people mover.

Not a prototypical PRR passenger locomotive, but in a fantasy world, this will look great pulling a few P70s.

This is a Rivarossi O scale model.  Light like it's HO counterparts, but nicely detailed for it's era.  Just need to change the couplers out to Kadees and I'm good to roll!

A pretty face

1:29 die cast Hudson

Happy FeF!  Here’s the front end of an R12 at the station -

Happy FEF!

Well Happy Friday everyone!  For today I am showing the French (note SNCF on deflector plates) Hornby O-E locomotive in brown first catalogued in 1948 although some references say it was also available in 1947.  She is electric and still runs very well and even her headlight works.  She is what in Europe they called "low voltage" locomotives because believe it or not they actually manufactured and sold toy trains that ran on full house current (220v in most of Europe)- WOW I bet Mom really liked that!  The low voltage trains ran on 0-20V transformer just like Lionel.

Best Wishes for a great weekend 

Don

An ABA set of New Haven FA-1's heads back into Cedar Hill. Units are all Weaver first generation diesels.

RailKing WM 0-8-0 at NJHR

Picture taken by my late brother in Worcester, MA highlighting the long gone Conrail blue, with the decaying train station in the background...the station has since been restored to its original beauty!

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

Front End Friday

This just in from Train World

@pennsyfan posted:

Front End Friday

This just in from Train World

That needs a sound board with the Ghostbusters siren blaring........

Cool find Bob

From our time with the former Crescent Model Railroaders modular layout club, our MTH, scale, PRR GG-1 pulls 5 MTH, PRR, heavyweight coaches at a Great Scale Model Train Show at the State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Maryland.

@RSJB18 posted:

That needs a sound board with the Ghostbusters siren blaring........

Cool find Bob

I’d like to do lights.

@Don McErlean - Best wishes for your continued good health.

Tom

A little late, but its still FEF…

Wow, we’re on page 185, but page 184 has the goods, beautiful pictures of uniquely beautiful Front Ends, @Melgar, that little steamer is beautiful, a Wow, and @Don McErlean, Your unique entry today is awesome, this is a great topic and here’s some pictures for your review. Happy Railroading Everyone…

@Don McErlean posted:

Well Happy Friday everyone!  For today I am showing the French (note SNCF on deflector plates) Hornby O-E locomotive in brown first catalogued in 1948 although some references say it was also available in 1947.  She is electric and still runs very well and even her headlight works.  She is what in Europe they called "low voltage" locomotives because believe it or not they actually manufactured and sold toy trains that ran on full house current (220v in most of Europe)- WOW I bet Mom really liked that!  The low voltage trains ran on 0-20V transformer just like Lionel.

Best Wishes for a great weekend

Don

Don, woohoo, congrats on finishing radiation therapy, that is great news! Wishing you a long life of railroading and many other good things!!!

OMG, they actually sold model trains in Europe that had live 220v 50hz on the rail? Yikes!! I can tell you first hand that 220v 50hz does not feel good and it took most of the day for my right arm to feel normal again!!! Fortunately it grounded out my right knee. It's long story how it happened.