Front End Friday

Heber Valley RR, NV

Well here is an American Flyer (Chicago Flyer) 2-4-0 Type XIX sheet metal locomotive from 1934 .  She came equipped with a tender labeled "Champion" and the combination was catalogued as 622R whereas the loco only was 612R.  She is pulling a 518 Club car and a 519 passenger car from 1931-32 so a little bit earlier than the locomotive.  She came to me as a "set" although I have no reason, especially given the difference in years manufactured between loco and cars, that she was ever an official set offered by Flyer.  However I keep her with the cars that came with her.  OBTW She does run fine and can easily pull the two small cars in her consist.

Best Wishes, Don

Have a goof FEF All PW Lionel 2046 running the rails

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

This week's front end is not a new one, but still a good one.  Amtrak Metroliners on O, HO, and N.  I custom painted the N scale one to be a cab car.  I had better eyesight 30 years ago. 

Happy Front End Friday.

G Scale Siemens ES 64U2 Taurus in FlixTrain colors that just arrived at the Amfleet25124 station yesterday.

Happy FeF!  Get on train before it leaves the station!

@GG1 4877 posted:

This week's front end is not a new one, but still a good one.  Amtrak Metroliners on O, HO, and N.  I custom painted the N scale one to be a cab car.  I had better eyesight 30 years ago.

Love those Phase I Metroliners Jonathan!  I need to get one in O Scale also eventually.

@Amfleet25124 posted:

Love those Phase I Metroliners Jonathan!  I need to get one in O Scale also eventually.

I'd really like to have some scale length ones.  One of my Williams Metroliner cars in pieces.  I was going to take the end cap and see how close it is in cross section to my GGD cars for a potential cab car project.  Maybe a future project?

@GG1 4877 posted:

I'd really like to have some scale length ones.  One of my Williams Metroliner cars in pieces.  I was going to take the end cap and see how close it is in cross section to my GGD cars for a potential cab car project.  Maybe a future project?

Exactly what I was thinking - what I highlighted above - but not as a cab car, but as the standard tri-color end.

Wow, page 193, and that’s a bunch of Fronts to review, Great thread…Have a great weekend….

The "610" Greenbrier heads north...

Here is a not-so-much-fun front end.  I got my MTH P5a Boxcab out of storage to see if there was anything left of it after I noticed zinc rot/pest several years ago.  Well, it is still intact.  The zinc pest is only on the ends on the roof, and one place on the side of the engine towards the front.  2/3 of the roof, and the rest of the engine looks okay.  Maybe it will last a few years longer if I don't handle it too much.

A "Vintage" Lionel TMCC Dash 9 from about 25 years ago.

That NYC 'Jet' is a really neat piece. One of the fellas at our club has one but haven't seen it in many years.

Top pic is a MTH set of HO Santa Fe units with the handsome plated sides. These came out 10-12 years ago and are quite attractive

These are factory Lionel replacement cabs for the PW 'Conventional Classics' produced some years ago which I purchased and installed on this good set of original No. 2343 F3s below. The B unit is later LTI production with Railsounds. Makes a nice set.

Finally finished a long ongoing project…3 EMD E5’s lettered, named, and numbered for Denver to Houston service.

Here are some pictures I took in North Aurora.

My front end views for Friday, August 23, 2024 show New York Central #9110, an MTH Railking model (30-21010-1 with PS3) of a Fairbanks Morse H10-44 diesel switcher on my 12’-by-8’ layout.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

My front end views for Friday, August 23, 2024 show New York Central #9110, an MTH Railking model (30-21010-1 with PS3) of a Fairbanks Morse H10-44 diesel switcher on my 12’-by-8’ layout.

MELGAR

I'm a fan of the H10-44s, especially with the lightning stripe of the NYC. Looks fantastic! I've got an MTH H10-44 myself, but in black and gold for the Monon Route.

Happy Front End Friday everyone! This week on my Marx layout, I have been running (well, trying to run) my small collection of Marx Canadian Pacific steamers.

Here's the nicest running of the trio moving the 8-wheel cars I acquired it with on the lower deck.

Good Friday morning, everyone.  I brought down my 3rd Rail S2 for a few laps around the track.  I set it up in the engine yard and tried getting it to the mainline, but it didn't like the Ross double slip.  Have to work on that.

@c.sam posted:

MTH Dreyfus from 2018. Nice PS3 with the cab drop plate and wireless tether.

What a great looking scene and Dreyfus sir !                             

Thanks for sharing.                                                                              Godspeed.                                                              

My MTH 0-4-0 Premier ps2 / PR&S .

My Lionel 6220 AT&SF from the early 50s.

Have a great FEF all.                                                                                  Gospeed 

My NYC Mohawk, circa 2016……

Have a great and safe weekend, everyone!

Peter

Happy FEF!

3 for one today.

PRR 44 Ton- WbB
B&O 0-4-0- MTH
PRR Box Cab- K-line

Bob

The "610" Greenbrier passing the South Main Street crossing on FEF...

two Pittsburgh Brewery engines by MTH

0- walt

Here are a few of mine waiting for their turn on the turntable today:

And a DD35 on the move:

Great photos, everyone. Here’s the front end of an R32 running on the N line to Coney Island -

Wonderful photos everyone.  This is my favorite this week.  Sorry about that, I wasn't claiming Dave's photo I must have inadvertently typed that while being distracted.

2911 still wearing Burlington Northern paint all these years later.  Cascade Green must have been a durable color.

Here is the front end of one of my favorite steamers, the Marx 666 from 1955.  She is fully die cast, including a separate casting for the boiler front (including the bell!).  Marx used his ultra-relaible 4 wheel drive system and created this die cast 2-4-2 "Columbia" .  Marx made at least 5 variants of this loco, both with and without the white stripe, and even one in olive drab for a special military set sold by Sears.  Nearly 70 years old, this gal runs fine and can still pull a pretty good consist.

Happy Friday everyone, hope you have a great weekend

Don

Here is a lunchtime entry of a photo that I just took at the Miami Metrorail Brickell Station.

Happy FEF!

Still sorry that I didn't buy this. It's even a moderately good replica of the real jet unit. I was being a snob, as I did not want the Pullmor motor. But as a 3RO NYC fan, i should have looked past that. Well, I finally realized much later, it's not like it needed to crawl at cruise-control-can-motor speeds, you know. (Can you imagine the death and destruction from using the real one as a switcher....? Still funny.)

Anyway, one of my major model RR goofs.

Happy FEF

3 Front Ends from the archives.

@D500 - You know its amazing (and perhaps indicative of that earlier era) that NYC actually tried the "jet powered" RDC.  I have seen pictures of the real thing.   What interests me is that the exhaust of the jet engines is just forward of the intakes for the Diesel engines (at least I think that is what those screens on top are for) and I wonder how the diesels liked eating the jet exhaust.

Great picture

Don

Happy FEF with my local club’s recent addition! It is a Hornby live steam model of the famous LNER Mallard. We hope to bring more interest into this type of models to the US by running it at our annual train shows.

@Trainmaster04 - WOW , I am a Hornby fan and was unaware they did any "live steam" loco's.  What is the Gauge?

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@Trainmaster04 - WOW , I am a Hornby fan and was unaware they did any "live steam" loco's.  What is the Gauge?

Don

If I were to hazard a guess, I would say 1:43.5 O scale.  There is a huge segment of the UK modeling community that model steam must be live steam.  I think it's fascinating. 

@Don McErlean posted:

@Trainmaster04 - WOW , I am a Hornby fan and was unaware they did any "live steam" loco's.  What is the Gauge?

Don

Indeed! The technology was created in the late 60s by a hobbyist but it wasn’t until 2003 that Hornby worked with the gentle man to turn his designs into a mass production model. Unfortunately, due to bad operating instructions from Hornby and the 2008 recession Hornby no longer produces these models.

This is in OO, or HO, gauge. Amazing stuff considering how small it is!