Front End Friday

I heard a story on NPR the other day that George H.W. Bush was given the chance to drive the 4141 for 2 miles. I thought that was really cool. 

Good morning, this photo is of a RJ Corman train heading from Clearfield PA Yard to Cresson PA with a string of grain cars. 

The third unit was running a bit rich in the cold air which is the white smoke in the background.

Have a great front end Friday !!!!!

Happy FEF!

Pretty faces all!

Well, maybe almost all  :-) 

...and every one of them an enjoyable visage to see, C. Sam.

        Happy "FEF" holiday edition... have a very Merry Christmas everyone

Good morning this is the boiler front from Pennsy K4 1361 at the Altoona Railroaders Musuem this past fall.

The headlight is sitting on a pellet along with a the steam generator.                                                                                                The primer colored item is the light off the rear of the tender.

Merry Christmas !

Merry FEF-mas

Lionel 736 Berkshire ‘neath the Christmas tree...

"Re-scaling" a RK freelance 2-8-8-2, in progress, last year.

NS6770Fan posted:

What? Where?

Moonson posted:

NS6770Fan posted:

What? Where?

SS United States (“America’s Flagship”) Philadelphia, PA visible from IKEA

Thanks, very much, for the identification. I thought it might have been the Queen Mary, docked in California and used now as part of a college (?)

Moonson posted:

Thanks, very much, for the identification. I though  it might have been the Queen Mary, docked in California and used now as part of a college (?)

The Queen Mary is still a hotel and museum.

Rusty

     Two brand new SD70s pulling 38Q at Cove, PA on 12-27-18. The disconnected 116 signal bridge is in the background. 

Happy FEF

Just took this pic an hour ago. Happy Friday!

Rusty Traque posted:

Moonson posted:

Thanks, very much, for the identification. I thought it might have been the Queen Mary, docked in California and used now as part of a college (?)

The Queen Mary is still a hotel and museum.

Rusty

Thanks, Rusty.

Here's a few FEF on the new layout.

Good evening, this is a PRR Jordan Spreader being prepped to head out before a winter storm moves in. 

Long before the Weather Channel and Doppler radar the PRR management are hoping they are making the right move and getting in position if the forecaster is correct.

The forecast is calling for possibly several inches of snow with possible snow rates of 2" per hour. The following day are calling for wind from the east which will make conditions out on the railroad miserable.

Todays power for the spreader will be a freshly shopped L1 Mikado along with a repainted Pennsy N6B Cabin Car painted in the new MOW colors.

Happy Frontend Friday  : )

Pictures taken yesterday from south of Miamisburg, OH where NS & CSX split.  Both heading north, NS crosses the Great Miami River, and CSX stays on the west side.  We got to see the NS train a while later in Fairborn on our way home.

Early morning freight yard sorry about the pic 

Happy FEF!

briansilvermustang posted:

 

A paved street, with a parking lane, no less, and somebody's frontporch right there, and a train trundling straight up the center! Its nice to be reminded, again, that, more-or-less, such scenes are not just the stuff of model train layouts, that they do happen in real-life, too!

Thanks for that reference point!

FrankM

Fabulous, STEAMER ! Another good reminder that such close proximity by trains to even urban buildings happened in real-life, too, not just on layouts!

FrankM

Rob, nice pics of NY&A.  Especially the fire works in the background.  Where did you take them?