Front End Friday

         happy "F E F" !!        hope everyone is doing OK !!!     

        Marci's photo...     info coming soon !       have a great day everybody !!

Happy Friday everyone! Please be safe. I took this the other day in DeSoto Mo. 

Great shot Lee. Happy Spring

Happy FEF!

Is this the front end?

Or is this the front end?

On this WbB 44-tonner, the only way to know is to look for the "F".

Have a great FEF.  And stay well.

Guess it doesn't get any "fronter..."

Rusty

Happy FEF on this Good Friday!

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!  

FEF 4/10  SP GS4 4436 rolling out of town at “O Dark Hundred”

In the city of Volta Redonda State of Rio de Janeiro Brazil.

MRS ore trains to CSN steel mill, one of the largest in the world. US invested heavily to expanded during WWll to import steel from Brazil. 

VLi in Barra Mansa Brazil 

(me and my fiancé rail fanning)

MTH Premier:

1. City of New Orleans (front of photo)

2. City of Miami

3. PanamaLimited

New York Central Hudson. The classic American steam locomotive.

Happy FEF 😊

How about an "F" F E F:

Stay safe&healthy, everyone!

Great shots everyone.  My entry today is a still from one of my YouTube videos.

A Brightline Siemens Charger SCB-40 heading south approaching the New River Bridge on March 16, 2019.

Well F.E.F folks here is my input for this week.   This is a new (to me) French Hornby locomotive in flat brown SNCF color scheme. I believe it is Type No 1E Special.  It has "Serie Hornby" embossed on the lower boiler front, giving away its French origin.   It is labeled as a "20 Volt" engine which corresponds to the "standard voltage" both the UK and France settled on for electric engines in the mid 30's, although in the UK both low voltage (battery) and high voltage (60 volt) engines were produced.  This one has manual reverse, so that makes it an early version (or a cheap one - who knows) and the configuration with an automatic front coupler dates if from 1934 or later. Being post nationalization in France, that makes it somewhat later at least 1938. Most production stopped with the war in 1940-41 so my best guess is 1938-41 as a production date.   It easily pulled 3 Number 1 coaches around my flat oval lay out.  I powered it with my ZW which at max puts out just over 18 volts so I wondered if it would work, well it does not start till you are at nearly full throttle on the ZW but after that it goes quite well, even the headlight comes on.  Anyway, I was very pleased with the operation.

Happy F.E.F everyone!

Don McErlean

RSJB18 posted:

Great shot Lee. Happy Spring

Thanks Bob same to you as well 

Rio Grande FEF.

Bill, I must comment on your Northern Pacific GG-1. That paint scheme is inspired! If the NP ever had GG-1's, they would have looked great in that scheme.

As a boy I worked in a local model train shop in California that had an HO GG-1 painted in Southern Pacific's "Daylight" colors on display. It brought chuckles from most customers and we had an occasional sorehead that completely disapproved of our model railroading "license".

Don, I had that NP GG-1 done many years ago. I was going to do a GN also but the painter that did the NP closed up shop.

   Bill

Wishing a happy and safe F E F to all here!

Eastbound Capitol between Meyersdale and Sand Patch:

Boeing parts train in Bighorn Canyon:

FEF 4/17/20  Something for my PRR friends.

Happy FEF!

           happy "F E F" everybody !

               Marci's photos...

              stay safe and have a great weekend !!

briansilvermustang posted:

           happy "F E F" everybody !

"ABE'S BEARD IS WEIRD"

Happy Friday! Took this one late this winter in midtown St. Louis 

geysergazer posted:

Wishing a happy and safe F E F to all here!

Eastbound Capitol between Meyersdale and Sand Patch:

       

 

       

Boeing parts train in Bighorn Canyon:

        

 

       

That’s Boeing pic is neat never seen that 

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday. " The Baldwin RF 16 demonstrators and N&W's famous J class 611 .... both born in 1950 .... the J keeps on ticking as there are only two RF 16s left in existence which according to Wikipedia ( 1/10/ 2020 ) will be going to a museum.  

VO1000 passes junk yard

The Great Northeastern Railway's new tank engine

A day off from work + 4.5 inches of snow overnight + the boys still in bed = Front End Friday.

lee drennen posted:

geysergazer posted:

Wishing a happy and safe F E F to all here!

Eastbound Capitol between Meyersdale and Sand Patch:

       

 

       

Boeing parts train in Bighorn Canyon:

        

 

       

That’s Boeing pic is neat never seen that 

Lee, that has been a standard move for 50yr. I took that pic in 1998 when we happened to be in the right place at the right time. We had stopped to watch Bighorn Sheep and along came that train. Fuselages and parts are shipped from Kansas and Texas North to the Boeing plant in Washington.

According to this article the 10,000th 737 fuselage made the trip in 2018:

https://www.railwayage.com/fre...boeing-737-fuselage/

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