Front End Friday

Western Maryland 2-6-6-2 #1309 joins the SOUTH FORK RAILROAD

Happy FEF!

Bob

2  Lionel by MTH sets

walt

Can’t believe it’s Front end Friday already. Happy FeF!

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

Having completed some switching assignments in Brewtown, Washington Terminal Co's RS 1 number 46 deadheads through Butler Junction as it takes the grade crossing at Patsburg Ave.

Western Maryland BL2 number 81 crew stops for a red signal as Washington Terminal number 63 is stopped on the adjacent track, also for a red signal.  Engineer Puffy Lawson leans out of the BL2 cab and yaks it up with brakeman Carson Link.  Meanwhile WTC brakeman Scruffy Hastings looks on hopping to exchange a few pleasantries with the Western Maryland boys.  

RK, in the usual striking 😜 PRR freight scheme.

Happy FEF!

Have a good FEF enjoy the heat next week

Here are three of my favorites today:

Today on a very hot Friday, 90 deg, I wanted to post an unusual locomotive.  It is the Wells - Brimtoy "Silver Streak" which was created to honor, King George the V 's Silver Jubilee in 1936.  This locomotive used the same tooling and the same number as the #2509 Silver Link which was a 4-4-0 .  Here they left off the leading bogie and it is a 0-4-0.  This dating from about 1938.  Clockwork and using 2-rail sectional track.  It has a beautiful tender and some coaches in a matching color scheme but alas, I have never found them for sale.  (A great picture of the entire set can be found in Michael Foster's Book, "British Toy Trains - Book 3", page 168)

So here is a great front end for today...lithographed tinplate all the way!

Here is what she looks like from the side.

Here she is nosing past the Brimtoy switch box with the "Britannia" steam loco in the background.

Best Wishes

Don

Happy FEF!  Here's Lehigh Valley GP38-2 # 324 fresh from the EMD factory leading a freight through the autumn foliage.  This is a Premier model from MTH...

Happy FEF - Atlas E8 powered #6900 and #6914 - special run from Train Loft in North Carolina

The CN C-Liner pulled into track 10 at the coaling tower temporarily to get off the main line so the express could pass thru...

A Nighttime FeF of Southern Pacific Daylight GS-2 pulling in to a very small passenger station!

Happy Friday and a great weekend to all!

Happy FEF everyone!  Monon 4-6-2 by Lionel and Mr Muffin’s Trains custom run. And, happy Father’s Day to all you Dad’s. Have a great weekend everyone!

The mighty Hiawatha.

@NJCJOE, Joe, Wow, your Hiawatha scene is fantastic, as is your model railroad, @Don McErlean, Wow, talk about Old, Beautiful, and in great shape, that engine is Unique, Silver Streak, a great name…. Today I had company and these kids brought there trains over for a test run on my layout… Nice kids, loving trains… Happy Front End Friday Everyone…

Great engines everyone! I went back a few pages and wow you folks don't disappoint with the quality of stuff you all post! @leapinlarry I have to say it is always nice to have visitors to ones layout, it gives you that little extra smile!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the weather!

@leapinlarry -  What a great way to share the hobby and those kids look really happy.  Good going Larry!

Best Wishes

Don

This smiling face says it all!   Yes, good going Larry...

Happy Front End Friday everyone. This week I've been running some interurbans on the layout. Starring my PCC Car and 55-foot McKeen Car making their rounds in the big city.

Also featuring my 72-foot McKeen roaming the suburbs.

Here's the video, this time featuring a minor front-end collision due to a runaway McKeen trailer (get the big hook!).

Happy FEF!

MoPac SD40-2 Friday

Its HOT outside, so we should all be inside with our trains on this FEF!
Stay cool!

RK P&LE RS3 in Pacemaker Green

Happy FeF and long enjoyable weekend all! BNSF 990 leading an intermodal past 5095, as it waits its turn to head out.

Lionel SD45 at the fuel station.

Gene

My Front-End subject for this Friday, June 21, 2024, is Boston & Albany #53 – a Lionel model (6-28702) of a USRA 0-8-0 steam switcher with TMCC made in 2006 at MSRP $649.99. It is an excellent model of the USRA 0-8-0 steam switcher design developed by the United States Railroad Administration during World War 1.

B&A #53 was a U-3b class switcher built by Lima in April 1921.  The engine had 25-by-28 cylinders, 51-inch driving wheels, weighed 219,000 pounds (about 364,000 pounds with loaded tender), and produced 51,040 pounds of tractive effort at 175 pounds-per-square-inch boiler pressure. When the B&A dieselized in 1951, #53 was renumbered to New York Central #7725 and ran on the Harlem Division until retirement in January 1955.

Photos/video show #53 on my 10’-by-5’ layout running at 29 scale miles-per-hour and pulling two boxcars - B&A #50518 (Weaver/CMP) and New York Trumbull & Boston #777, an MTH car repainted and lettered by forum member @Krieglok. At the tail end is Boston & Albany wood caboose #1174 (K-Line).

MELGAR

my 2 tin-plate engines

- walt

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

q

New Haven FA-1 is backing into Cedar Hill Yard already assigned to a Maybrook Freight

The CN mountain steamer rounding the bend...

@Trainguy Ken posted:

Happy Front End Friday everyone. This week I've been running some interurbans on the layout. Starring my PCC Car and 55-foot McKeen Car making their rounds in the big city.

Also featuring my 72-foot McKeen roaming the suburbs.

Here's the video, this time featuring a minor front-end collision due to a runaway McKeen trailer (get the big hook!).

😱 Was the motorman removed from service and tested?

@walt rapp posted:

my 2 tin-plate engines

- walt

Me too on the blue one!

Ron

Here is my husky Kline MP-15 from UP taking a freight away from the wharf / industrial area and up the main line.

Happy Friday

Don

Competitors. The Central Railroad of New Jersey's flagship seashore train, The Blue Comet and the Pennsylvania Railroad's Nellie Bly meet at Suburban Station, Terryville on their way to Atlantic City. 

My own version of "Pennsy Power".

Happy FeF!  Here is the front end of a No. 6 train (R26) in the service facility -

Happy FEF everyone!  Here's a track-side view of the front end of Lionel Legacy Erie GP7 #1260...

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

@jgtrh62 posted:

Happy FeF and long enjoyable weekend all! BNSF 990 leading an intermodal past 5095, as it waits its turn to head out.

Great photos, John!!