The subject of my front-end views this Friday, July 5, 2024 is Boston & Maine #1274, an MTH model (20-21401-1) of an Alco S-2 switcher with PS3 delivered in 2021 at MSRP $479.95.
Photos and videos on my 12’-by-8’ layout.
MELGAR
Cab unit power in the Scranton PA yard ready to work. The NH 426 is a Weaver FA-1 and the O&W 821 is an MTH F-3
Happy FeF! Here are a couple of subway Front ends on the El. Since it’s 4th of July weekend, just think of these trains as heading to Coney Island for the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest -
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Approaching the South Main Street crossing last on the night of the 4th...
Here are a few shots of the front ends of my brand new pair of MTH Premier Jersey Central SD35’s. They are a custom run by Forum-sponsor Patrick’s Trains…
Here is a front end that previewed where Lionel was going just before the War. This is the fully diecast 2-4-2 locomotive, #204 from 1940 - 1942 but uncatalogued at that point. You can tell her pre-war heritage by the tinplate tender that came with her. She led a long line of diecast Lionel locomotives in the post war period and well beyond. You can also see some of her period consist of # 600 series freights ( in this case the 654 tank and the 655 box car.
Hope you had a wonderful Holiday. All my best,
Don
Happy Front End Friday Everyone, time flies when you’re having fun. Today are pictures of my friend Nathan, manager of the Lionel Store in the OpryMills Mall, Nashville. Have a fun weekend everyone. (His Lionel Legacy N&W J..)
Happy front end Friday. These are the Williams girl's train engines my wife got earlier this year.
Hope everyone has been enjoying a wonderful post 4th Front End Friday… here’s a couple from two of my favorite roads…
Hey Paul, who's Alco PA is that in the foreground above?
I have the 3rd rail AAs and the color appears similar to yours. I bought Lionel's handsome 21" D&H passenger set and the blue was too bright for a good match - very similar to the blue on your middle diesel. I reluctantly traded off my passenger cars and hope to one day create my own set with some 21" K-Line cars that someone stripped the trim paint from. Formerly Amtrak
@c.sam posted:*
The Southern Crescent E8s bring back a lot of memories. I rode the Crescent with my family when I was about 4 from New Orleans to NJ to visit my grandparents. I don't remember the locomotives from the trip, but they surely were E8s. However, I do remember seeing them as a young teen when several were owned by NJDOT and still in Southern Railway paint.
Granted, former unit 6904 doesn't look nearly as nice after being renumbered into the 4300 series in a numbering system that dates to the PC years. Always a classic paint scheme.
Here are my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!!
Western Maryland BL2 at Butler Junction.
PW 2343 and a model of my parents house that I made on one of my Christmas layouts.
= walt
@c.sam posted:*
Sam - what railroad museum is that? Thx.
Mark, that's the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer NC. A very nice facility where the old Southern RR's Spencer Shops are located. Well worth a visit!
@c.sam posted:Hey Paul, who's Alco PA is that in the foreground above?
I have the 3rd rail AAs and the color appears similar to yours. I bought Lionel's handsome 21" D&H passenger set and the blue was too bright for a good match - very similar to the blue on your middle diesel. I reluctantly traded off my passenger cars and hope to one day create my own set with some 21" K-Line cars that someone stripped the trim paint from. Formerly Amtrak
Sam;
Sorry for the delay in replying, I was dealing with a week’s worth of company and my reply needed some investigation. Yes, the front end in my pic is one of the 3rd Rail PA’s. The investigation was needed because I have a few other D&H PA’s…
First, I have the Lionel AA set from 2003 (TMCC) - this pic is from a couple of years ago:
And, absent a needed intervention, I couldn’t resist the 2021 Legacy AA set!!!
And here is a pic of the two Lionel offerings next to each other (Legacy in front, TMCC in back). There is a slight difference in the blue and the Legacy version has a more plated look. I passed on the 2021 passenger cars since I have a nice set of Lionel 15” aluminum cars and a MTH set as well.
Why oh why would you ever need an intervention?
Thanks Paul. I really like the plated version and Lionel's is slightly more 'shiny' than our 3rd Rail models.
Not sure this was the best place to land this but with D&H fans on this thread, I decided to put it here. The pictures are of the newly rebuilt D&H Albany mainline. The D&H came up from Binghamton and split in the Village of Delanson (The town where I live) ( About 20 miles southwest of Schenectady). Here the line split apart with one fork going to Schenectady and north and the other to the Port Of Albany. A hurricane and subsequent flooding knocked out a bridge on the Albany main curtailing and traffic below the Guilderland Industrial Park. The D&H elected to not repair the bridge and pulled up the track from the Port to Guilderland. It remained this way for over 20 years. The Canadian Pacific petitioned the town to abandon the track but the town rejected the idea. The D&H now owned by NS, started to refurbish the line last summer with almost a complete rebuild of the rite-of-way with new welded rail, new ties and ballast and new signals. Stack trains coming up on the NS will now go through Delanson and onto the old Albany mainline. The pictures show the new line just before the switch which now ties into the CSX mainline into Selkirk yard and on to Boston. The stack trains running through the Hoosac Tunnel (which required the top stack be removed first) will now go over from the NS to CSX for delivery in the Boston area. The rite-of-way with the new track was completely over grown with brush and trees and the rails that crossed the CSX (old NYC mainline) at Voorheesville are also completely replaced. Those good looking PA's ran through this intersection. Bill
My front-end views for this Friday, July 12, 2024, show my model of Norfolk & Western #244, the first Railking model of a USRA 0-8-0 steam engine made by MTH – product number 30-1111-1. It was delivered in 1997 at MSRP $379.00 with PS1. It doesn’t have speed control and runs fast but – unlike more expensive locomotives – I don’t mind putting runtime on it. The box says it was made in Korea – probably by Samhongsa – the manufacturer of MTH Premier steam locomotive models.
MELGAR
Happy FEF!
I posted this yesterday on what trains did you run; but being without another entry for FEF, here it is. A NOS John Bull with passenger cars. Courtesy of @leapinlarry .
Happy FEF with the Scotsman!
Have a good FEF couple PW Lionel F units
Well for today's F.E.F. here is a front end that is about a full century old. From 1923-1926 an American Flyer (Chicago Flyer) clockwork , die cast 0-4-0 steamer and her tender and train.
Here is a picture of her with her full consist (at least in this set) of a Pullman car and a baggage car
Here she is with her set box. It included an amount of track,likely a circle originally, but when I obtained the set all it had was straight track. The Pullman is labeled: Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul RR.
Early this morning at the Charles Street Yard while the city sleeps...
Happy FeF. Here’s a front end from the archives of an R27 on the el making a turn past Peter Lugers -
Happy FEF! CNJ "Camelback" 4-6-0 #789 is on the front end of a caboose hop. This is a Premier model from MTH...
Here are my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday! ... Front ends from my visit to the Virginia Museum of Transportation last Sunday. Good times!!
The Queen of the Fleet is resting at her home at the VMT.
Number 4 is a N&W 0-8-0 switcher.
A class number 1218.
N&W Consolidation number 6 built in the late 1890s.
And ... a selfie of me and 0-8-0 number 4.
Thomas and Percy shunting in the yard.
Thomas pulling Annie and Claribel.
A PRR, 0-6-0 switcher brings a coal train into the yard.
Here's a picture I took today from the High Street Bridge in Aurora Illinois.
Happy Front End Friday from the C&D Railroad! This picture was taken in 2016. Hard to believe it's been 8 years.
@trumpettrain posted:Here are my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday! ... Front ends from my visit to the Virginia Museum of Transportation last Sunday. Good times!!
Somebody is having way too much fun!
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@trumpettrain posted:Here are my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday! ... Front ends from my visit to the Virginia Museum of Transportation last Sunday. Good times!!
The Queen of the Fleet is resting at her home at the VMT.
Number 4 is a N&W 0-8-0 switcher.
A class number 1218.
N&W Consolidation number 6 built in the late 1890s.
And ... a selfie of me and 0-8-0 number 4.
Great shots! I want to get down there sometime with my wife. And it's great to see #4, the last surviving Virginian steam locomotive.
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