Front End Friday

                      happy "F E F" everyone !!

             have a great weekend !    gonna be a nice one,   60 here on Sunday...

Here's my addition to Front end Friday

Some passenger train front/rear ends from a trip to Boston in January 2012 with my sons:

MBTA Park Street Station (Red & Green Lines)

South Street Station (Amtrak & MBTA Commuter Rail)

Just completed MTH FEF restoration modeled as it appears today with warning light removed.

Pete

Front End Friday! 

Lots of good looking front ends fellows. Have a great weekend. Happy Railroading 

                                  1994 MTH Uninon Pacific Challenger #3985

Ready to leave the yards..

                            HFEF to all'... Have a great week-end'...

Happy Front End Friday!!!

Well F.E.F folks, it's the Leonardtown and Savannah equivalent of the great NYC vs PRR (21st Century Limited vs Broadway Limited) race out of Chicago in the  30's.  This is the mighty 262E pulling its 1933 passenger consist (in my world) heading for the main and Atlanta vs the hard working 249E and its symbol freight heading south out of Small Town for the port of Savannah.  Happy F.E.F to everyone. 

                        happy "F E F " everyone !!

                                                    have a great weekend !!

Happy F E F !!

Southbound Tri-Rail GP49 #812 at the Metrorail/Tri-Rail Transfer Station as viewed from the elevated Metrorail platform looking north this past Monday evening.  FYI, the Miami Amtrak station is the cream colored building in the distance in the upper right of the photo.  Neither of the Silvers from the north are scheduled to arrive yet.

Happy Front End Friday everyone!

Happy Friday everyone 

A little Chessie for FEF.

Great pictures gentlemen, have a great weekend, Happy Railroading 

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday! 

                                   American flyer 1955 Pennsy K5 #313 Pacific

Happy FEF!

Front End Friday the 13th

It is 1949 and the photographer got a couple of pictures of the last remaining HH1 steamers in Pennsy's fleet.  These ex-N&W Y3s were purchased in 1943 and are being replaced with the new diesels that are finally arriving on the Pennsy.

374 is a Lionel model, 375 is MTH.

Front End Friday! 

Happy Friday.

Happy F.E.F everyone.  Since my Leonardtown and Savannah would have no credible reason to host a B.A.R GP locomotive I will have to image that somehow, its operating with the State of Maine Boxcar on ASJB18's post and working with that B.A.R GP in BAR GP7 #63 's post.  So here is the Jeremiah O'Brien getting ready for his day's work.

Happy Friday everyone.

Don McErlean

Friday down at The Big Four. Have a great weekend everyone!

Lionel Boston & Albany Hudson

OK OK - I know its only late Thursday, but I have to work late tomorrow so I am "jumping the gun!"  Here is (a little worse for wear) a likely (per Greenberg) 1926-1927 Lionel 152 pulling its little train from outfit # 290 of 1926-27.  It is a 901 gondola ("Lake Shore") and a 801 Caboose ("Wabash").  Wish I had a bulb for the headlight would look better, then again, I hope I look this good and am still moving at age 94.

Happy F.E.F fellows - day early.

Don McErlean

So we start a little early.  Should be fun.

I took several photos of my Freedom Train next to my growing Friendship Train for the weekend photos topic, some of them perfect for FEF.

The Pennsy did in fact use a Centipede AA to pull the Friendship Train consist that went through Pennsylvania.  It and the Freedom Train were both in Harrisburg, PA, at the same time in late November 1947 and parked side-by-side just like this.  Unfortunately I don't have hundreds of standing figures to simulate the crowd that surrounded the trains at the real event.  Both the PA and Centipede are Lionel.

As a side note, the Freedom Train went to all 48 states (this is 1947) pulled by that PA, making that engine the only known engine to touch each state.

Ron

A variety of front ends for this Friday.

Ends of the front kind for this Fine Friday!