Front End Friday

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Here's wishing a happy and safe F E F to all here!

Horseshoe Curve c.'99

One morning on the PER 1.0:

The Capitol East of Meyersdale, Pa one morning c.'99.

"Whimsy":

Altoona, Pa c. '55-'59.

One mile East of Meyersdale c. '99. 

"Sharknoses in Driftwood, Pa":

                 happy  "F E F" everyone !!

                stay  SAFE !!     and have a great weekend !

Happy Friday everyone! Took this last month in midtown  St Louis 

Front End Friday!

Wow!  We've got some strong entries for FEF so far this morning.

Here are mine. More from the hidden vault.

K-Line MP-15 Chessie Switcher on the carpet in 2015

MTH SW-9 CSX Switcher on the Inglenook layout at Boy Scouts Merit Badge Class that I taught in 2016.  Time flies.  Can't believe it will be 2 years since my oldest son earned his Eagle Scout.

Great pictures everyone, Wow, CAPPilot, Wow, beautiful fronts of the Freedom train and the Centipedes, stay safe, enjoy your trains and things. Happy Railroading 

Happy FEF!

Some fronts of the Demo type

FEF on CSX

jgtrh62 posted:

Happy F-E-F all!

Got this newest addition to my roster, a B40-8W, converted to Proto48 over the weekend. I'm going to run it for a while to break in then will paint into a Warbonnet.

Have a great weekend!

John

 Wow what a brass beauty'....'''  Almost a shame to paint it'...

It's Chuvie time'....

This should go to Real Trains, but because this is Front End Friday, today being Friday, here are some pictures from the new train train Yard at Pembroke Kentucky, The Casky Yards Pictures taken this afternoon. Happy Railroading 

TGIF everyone!  It’s been a very long week and I’m glad the weekend is here!

leapinlarry posted:

This should go to Real Trains, but because this is Front End Friday, today being Friday, here are some pictures from the new train train Yard at Pembroke Kentucky, The Casky Yards Pictures taken this afternoon. Happy Railroading

Larry, since Allan changed "Front end Friday"  to the "Miscellaneous Form" / "Photo Albums"  real train shots are AOK here.

Ron

Two scale hudsons running behind schedule.

A little late for Fridays deadline .   A K-Line semi scale ESE coming through .

                         happy "F E F" everyone !!

                                      have a great weekend, and be safe...

Eggcellent reminder, Brian!

Happy, safe and healthy F E F, everyone!

Happy FEF!

Let’s not be “Blue” today, its a beautiful spring day and I’m going out to pressure wash the house. So Happy FEF 

TGIFEF!   Here are ends of the front kind from the Free State Junction Railway.  

For this week's FEF, here are some photos of my Lionel E7.

Unfortunately, the Lionel version used a pointy E6 pilot not an E7 pilot.  I bought some E8 pilots and while it is easy to take off the pilots, the screw holes are entirely different.  Other than that it looks like a perfect fit.  I was going to glue the E8 pilot on but it needs to come off to get the shell off.  Still looking at a way to screw them on.

TGIF is right, Trumptrain you nailed it, hopefully everyone will have a great weekend. BILL T, beautiful Milwaukee road engines, CAPPilot, thanks for the information and great PA diesels, Ralph M, a great lineup of beautiful engines, Everyone seems to be doing ok, stay well, live healthy, keep those trains running. Happy Railroading 

Ralph M posted:

Ralph:

Yours is a GREAT display of PRR power! It is a shame that your photo could not be the subject of a Grif Teller painting. You have made happy one of the biggest Pennsylvania Railroad addicts on the forum, me. Thank you for the great photo. Long live the memory of the PRR!

PRR Decapod.

Randy,

How about some all steam from an earlier FEF.

CAPPilot posted:

For this week's FEF, here are some photos of my Lionel E7.

Unfortunately, the Lionel version used a pointy E6 pilot not an E7 pilot.  I bought some E8 pilots and while it is easy to take off the pilots, the screw holes are entirely different.  Other than that it looks like a perfect fit.  I was going to glue the E8 pilot on but it needs to come off to get the shell off.  Still looking at a way to screw them on.

Gee Ron I have not noticed that before!  Guess I was so happy to get some E7's did not pay close attention.

BUT did notice the problem with the "high-water" non-powered B-units.

Our legacy A-units and the powered b-unit was built after Lionel fixed the high-water problem with the first Legacy NYC E7's.  But the PRR non-powered b-unit was built at the same time as the NYC units.

Fortunately I contacted Lionel just after Mike Reagan came on board.  He emailed me that he just came on board, saw the problem and would work the problem.  A couple of days later emailed me he had the fix and gave me options.  Took the option of being sent the new trucks and parts with replacement instructions.  AOK!

Ron

PRRronbh posted:

Gee Ron I have not noticed that before!  Guess I was so happy to get some E7's did not pay close attention.

BUT did notice the problem with the "high-water" non-powered B-units.

Our legacy A-units and the powered b-unit was built after Lionel fixed the high-water problem with the first Legacy NYC E7's.  But the PRR non-powered b-unit was built at the same time as the NYC units.

I have the powered B unit so I guess its okay.  I'll have to go look.  The E8 pilot is a perfect fit (other than the screw holes).  It is also shaped just like the ones in many photos of PRR E7s.  I would recommend getting one (then you can tell me how to mount it).

CAPPilot posted:

PRRronbh posted:

Gee Ron I have not noticed that before!  Guess I was so happy to get some E7's did not pay close attention.

BUT did notice the problem with the "high-water" non-powered B-units.

Our legacy A-units and the powered b-unit was built after Lionel fixed the high-water problem with the first Legacy NYC E7's.  But the PRR non-powered b-unit was built at the same time as the NYC units.

I have the powered B unit so I guess its okay.  I'll have to go look.  The E8 pilot is a perfect fit (other than the screw holes).  It is also shaped just like the ones in many photos of PRR E7s.  I would recommend getting one (then you can tell me how to mount it).

I also have the powered B-unit.  It is AOK was made the same time as the A unit's which was AFTER the high-water fix was made.

Ron

CAPPilot posted:

For this week's FEF, here are some photos of my Lionel E7.

 

Unfortunately, the Lionel version used a pointy E6 pilot not an E7 pilot.  I bought some E8 pilots and while it is easy to take off the pilots, the screw holes are entirely different.  Other than that it looks like a perfect fit.  I was going to glue the E8 pilot on but it needs to come off to get the shell off.  Still looking at a way to screw them on.

Ron, From where did you get the correct shaped E7 pilots and there part number?  Depending on the out come of my up and coming diagnostic testing my want to get a set a machine them to fit.

Ron

Randy Harrison posted:

PRR Decapod.

Cool shot Randy.  Was that shot from 2010 on an outdoor layout, or on a display diorama that you placed outside for the photo?  The angle and distance of the background trees makes it look like a real life 1:1 scale out in the country.

Here are some shots from my N Scale trains, taken at the South Florida Railway Museum layout in Deerfield Beach between 2014-2017.  Pardon the glare of some of the images as they were taken looking through a plexiglass screen.

The Amtrak set is mine (duh!).  Lovely looking Viewliners.  Thank goodness they are finally coming to the O Scale world, as I'm narrowing down my model train focus from HO- N- G- Z and only doing O.

                                           MTH CNJ 4-6-0 Camelback #763 at NJ Hirailers.