My photos and video for this Friday show front-end views of two Long Island Rail Road passenger trains and locomotives. LIRR #18 is a Lionel Legacy model (2131420, $649.99) of a Camelback 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler steamer and LIRR #462 is a special run MTH Railking model (30-20894-1, $399.95) of an Alco RS-1 diesel by forum sponsor Trainworld.
#18 was built by Baldwin in 1903 and retired by 1931. #462 arrived on the LIRR in 1949 and was scrapped in 1977. So, although these locomotives never operated together on the LIRR, there’s no reason not to run both of them on a front-end Friday…
On my layout, #18 is pulling two elegant MTH wood-sided passenger cars and #462 is pulling three heavyweight steel passenger cars – also by MTH.
On the LIRR, #18 hauled high-speed Limiteds from Jamaica to the Hamptons on Eastern Long Island that were run by the most senior engineers. In 1924, the LIRR honored engineer James Eichhorn by painting his name on the cab of locomotive #18, as seen on Lionel’s model. By contrast, LIRR #462 worked as a switcher at Sunnyside Yard in Queens, NY, where my father used to take me to watch trains when I was a youngster.
The video shows the trains running through the double-tracked truss bridge on my 12’-by-8’ layout.
MELGAR
Thanks Don! I love Ives trains and the Ives story. I would be glad to share some photos, but I think this wouldn’t fit the criteria for the Front End Friday theme here. But I will show the trains that are on the shelves that the Ives train that I originally posted is on. The top is Lionel 260E. Next shelf is Ives 1122. The third shelf is a Bing 4-4-0. The fourth shelf is the Ives 3238 Motor I originally posted. The bottom shelf is the Ives 20 locomotive and some freight cars.
