Front End Friday

What to post this Friday? 

How about the Front end of a PRR P54 suburban coach?  Those owl eyes make the car.

Rock Island GP7 number 1208 heading East across the Grand River toward Chillicothe Missouri during a warmer part of the year - but probably still a Friday.

@Carpetrainman - I have likely said it before, but I really love your "snow storm" effects.  They are really neat!

Don

Happy FEF with a Lionel RS-27 and a friendly engineer.

Gene

My new Lionel Legacy UP GP9 arrived this week as well as a replacement Large Flag sign from Miller Engineering that is the actual “front” of my layout:

PRR 4-4-2 #460, the "Lindbergh Atlantic".

Williams Rio Grande.

Last night we rehearsed the layout’s monthly security protocol……..

Peter

Photos show my Railking Imperial model (30-1866-1) of Raritan River Rail Road #20, a USRA 0-6-0 steam switcher, as it passes through the single-track truss bridge on the O36 inner loop of my 12’-by-8’ layout. I built the bridge from a kit by Miami Valley Products. Video shows it on the south curve.

The Raritan River Rail Road, a 12.3 mile short line that operated in Central New Jersey between New Brunswick and South Amboy, bought 7 U.S. Army surplus USRA 0-6-0 steam switcher locomotives in 1947 and ’48. They were built by Lima in 1944 and scrapped in 1954. My model – Raritan River #20 – was previously U.S. Army #4055.

MELGAR

Happy FeF!  Love that military train, @Putnam Division , and you even still have all the fins on the engine. Nice! Here is an R34 at the station -

@Randy Harrison posted:

PRR 4-4-2 #460, the "Lindbergh Atlantic".

Randy, is it unusual to have 2 sets of front classification lights?

Gene

B&O Budd car front end today.

@Strap Hanger posted:

Happy FeF!  Love that military train, @Putnam Division , and you even still have all the fins on the engine. Nice! Here is an R34 at the station -

@StrapHanger,

A great scene but if it's City Hall, I missed my stop at Times Square.

MELGAR

BMT 2500 Standard next stop Kings Highway.

F.E.F. Waiting for the summer. Bangor & Aroostook GP-7 #63.

Enjoy your FEF

@MELGAR posted:

@StrapHanger,

A great scene but if it's City Hall, I missed my stop at Times Square.

MELGAR

Lol! Thanks Mel. As usual, your pics and background stories never disappoint.

Happy FEF!

I recently acquired INRD 9006, as you can see here. It's Lionel 6-82766 and was cataloged in the 2016 Big Book.

As discussed on this forum, diesels can operate in either direction. Early cab units were limited in this as rearward visibility was poor unless they ran an AA consist.  Hood units solved this issue.

Short hood forward.

Long hood forward.

The Pennsylvania set up their hood units (most anyway) to run long hood forward.  To ensure the engineer did not forget, they mark the front with an 'F'.

Western Maryland #1309 pulling a grade on The SOUTH FORK RAILROAD.

Line up of my old stuff Left to right

American Flyer O engine 1218

Lionel Scout 1110

American Flyer O engine 420

American Flyer clockwork

they still all run great and since I was rebuilding my layout I gave them all a good run

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

F.E.F. Waiting for the summer. Bangor & Aroostook GP-7 #63.

Everything is so green it looks like it's already summer.

@Genemed posted:

Randy, is it unusual to have 2 sets of front classification lights?

Gene

@Genemed

Gene:

I honestly do not know. Maybe one of the other readers of this thread can she some light on it.

@Randy Harrison posted:

@Genemed

Gene:

I honestly do not know. Maybe one of the other readers of this thread can she some light on it.

Pennsy two sets for Identification and operation purposes. These helped signal the status of the train to other railway personnel and were especially useful during the era of the timetable and train order system.

White Lights: Indicated an extra train not listed on timetable.

Green: Signaled that the train was a regular scheduled train, but a second section was following behind it.

Red Lights: Marked end of train

Having two sets of lights allowed for better visibility and redundancy, and from different angles and distances.

Found on a Pennsy site. God Speed Mark

@Sitka posted:

Pennsy two sets for Identification and operation purposes. These helped signal the status of the train to other railway personnel and were especially useful during the era of the timetable and train order system.

White Lights: Indicated an extra train not listed on timetable.

Green: Signaled that the train was a regular scheduled train, but a second section was following behind it.

Red Lights: Marked end of train

Having two sets of lights allowed for better visibility and redundancy, and from different angles and distances.

Found on a Pennsy site. God Speed Mark

Thank you Mark for the explanation.

Gene

@Sitka posted:

Pennsy two sets for Identification and operation purposes. These helped signal the status of the train to other railway personnel and were especially useful during the era of the timetable and train order system.

White Lights: Indicated an extra train not listed on timetable.

Green: Signaled that the train was a regular scheduled train, but a second section was following behind it.

Red Lights: Marked end of train

Having two sets of lights allowed for better visibility and redundancy, and from different angles and distances.

Found on a Pennsy site. God Speed Mark

@Sitka

Thanks for the research and explanation.

@Don McErlean posted:

@Carpetrainman - I have likely said it before, but I really love your "snow storm" effects.  They are really neat!

Don

Don, I'm glad you've enjoyed the snow and blizzard clips.   During one of the updates of the canned MS editing programs on my PC, the feature was removed and was no longer part of the program...sorry to say!  Here's one my favorites...there's a hearty group of travelers on the platform in summer attire...given the chilly temps that night

My front-end view for this Friday, February 14, 2025 is New Haven Railroad USRA 0-8-0 steam locomotive #3409. It’s an MTH Railking Imperial model (30-1611-1) with PS3 delivered in 2015.

The New Haven had ten USRA 0-8-0 heavy switchers in its Y-3 class, road numbers 3400 to 3409, built by Alco in 1920. A total of thirty-five were acquired by 1923. They had 51-inch drivers, were superheated, and ran at 175 pounds-per-square-inch steam pressure – later increased to 190. All were retired by March 1952.

Photos and video show #3409 on my 10’-by-5’ layout.

MELGAR

Front End coming your way.  Canadian Alco S2 by MTH with a short string of cars.

Front ends……

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Peter

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   Western Maryland FA1 and a BL2.

Happy FEF!

A pair of NYC diesels, ALCO S2 and FM H-16-44

Bob

Front-end Friends Friday!  4023 and 3985 remained at the roundhouse in Cheyenne together many years after steam had left the rails.  Nice to have them side by side on our rails here.

I need some smoke in this pic...lol...  Maybe a project for later today...

Well we have both steam and diesel, how about electric?  This is a French Hornby PO type locomotive in SNCF livery.  This one specifically is a "Hatchette" version, Hatchette produced reproductions of Classic Hornby and French Hornby trains from the 1950's in about the 1990's so this is a reproduction (a bit like the MTH lionel reproductions or the Lionel "Classic" series).  However the PO was a powerful freight engine in the post war period and used throughout the SNCF system.  This classic Hornby is clockwork, like many of Mecanno engines and she works quite well.

Best Wishes for a great Friday, hope your weekend goes well.

Don

A little different kind of front end. A Lemax product.

- walt

Happy F.E.F.  Shark Bay R.R. 0-6-0T #12.

Oh boy!! FEF. Mi-Loco K5 and a Blumm M1 both in glorious 17/64ths scale. Prewar and very related!! Also enjoying an Icken 0-8-0 with my Baldwin F-3’s!

God Speed All!

Happy Friday! CGW, C&NW and former CGW at Marshalltown Iowa shop.