Front End Friday

Two shots from Steamtown - first, from yesterday...

Second, from December 1997...

Have a happy and safe Labor Day weekend everyone 

Not exactly “front end” maybe better for a “side rod saturday” 😆 

Happy Labor day 

Ends of the front kind for his fine Friday. " Front ends circa 1950." 

The BNSF Beep passing through on the Seattle & Yakima RR

Hi everyone...happy F.E.F.   This weekend is special on the Leonardtown and Savannah, where in order to celebrate the Holiday weekend, management has arranged for several class 1 RR (who want the advertising) to bring their new diesels down to the port yard at Savannah for view of the public.  Its a great display and we expect record crowds Sat through Monday. 

Here are those "front ends" to celebrate F.E.F ...2 F-3's (NYC and Wabash) and 2 PA's (Texas and Erie).  They will be part of the exhibit over the weekend and we are inviting everyone to the port of Savannah to view these "new" steeds (after all its frozen in the 1950s on the L&S).

Here is a somewhat longer shot, showing the waterfront street bounding the yard.

Have a great weekend everyone...for me this is just an ordinary weekend, the college has cancelled the Labor Day Holiday in order to shorten the semester due to COVID.  Kids / Parents save on room/board and we lower expenses since the loss of sports income, lower enrollment, and other event  cancellations were a real budget hit. 

Don

I don't believe that I've posted this one before so here goes.  Tri-Rail GP49 #813 pushing the consist northbound from the Hialeah Market station on June 15, 2014.

                       happy "F E F" !!

                                 have a great weekend everyone !!

                                                              CR 3692

A fabulous Front End Friday.  Thanks all for your posts.

Kevin the Tri-Rail GP49 is very interesting.  I thought I remembered reading that the Alaska RR was the only buyer of the GP49.

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   " Having fun with the PA1"

Happy FEF!

Lot's of low-hood GEEPS today!

Lackawanna passing a Tacoma Rail

Happy F.E.F everyone.  My front view this week is a bit unusual and much earlier than the F-3 / PA-1's I posted last Friday.  This is my NEW (new to me of course) American Flyer Type XI 0-4-0 engine, cataloged from 1923-1926 so he is almost 100 years old.  He carries the logo..."A.F. No 16" under the cab window and is cast iron.  The tender shows "American Flyer Lines" inside a red/white rectangle on the sides and the number "120" in a similar rectangle on the rear.   He is clockwork (motor works like a champ) and it came with a brake rail in the set and it has a cab brake for winding.  I will post some pictures of the full train in the Tinplate section later today.  I suppose I could get the dust off him, but whoever saw a steam engine without some dirt on it! 

Have a great weekend everyone!  Happy F.E.F everyone

Don

coach joe, apparently the Southern Railway bought six GP39Xs which were upgraded to GP49s shortly there after.

Larry

The Northern Pacific Terminal Company Alco S-1

Happy FEF!

                        happy "F E F"  !!

                                           have a great weekend everyone !!

2 x Dv12.

                                  NYS&W EMD F45 #6644, ex-BN #6644, at Little Ferry, NJ- Oct. 86'.   

                                                                                  MY PHOTO

Don McErlean, Wow, the 4 F units pictured above make a bold statement and look so fine, great picture, Paul Romano, your pictures of the real diesels is beautiful, wow, Bar GP7 #63, wow, that’s a beautiful engine , I’ve never seen one of those, cool, Briansilvermustang, your fleet of engine is endless, amazing pictures, Wow, RSJB18, Bob, that’s a beautiful MP-15, what road name?! Sidehack, great pictures to, Happy Railroading Everyone.... Have a great Weekend.....

Happy FEF

BAR GP7 #63: WOW!  Neat shot of the two VR (Finnish Railway) road switchers.  Is the unit in the foreground wearing the current color scheme? 

@Trinity River Bottoms Boomer posted:

BAR GP/ #63: WOW!  Neat shot of the two VR (Finnish Railway) road switchers.  Is the unit in the foreground wearing the current color scheme? 

 

 

Thank you. The front locomotive has a newer painting version but the newest is gray green. The Dv12 series was built mainly in the 1960s and 1970s and now VR has ordered new Stadler diesels. In a few years, the Dv12 series will largely disappear from the rail network.

Johan

Front End Friday! Southern Pacific SW1. 

Johan:  The "Green Machines" are Cool Cats!  Does VR interchange with Russian Railways?  I assume it's performed on 5 Ft. gauge and not standard in the event there is interchange taking place between the two countries?

@Trinity River Bottoms Boomer posted:

Johan:  The "Green Machines" are Cool Cats!  Does VR interchange with Russian Railways?  I assume it's performed on 5 Ft. gauge and not standard in the event there is interchange taking place between the two countries?

 

I like the Dv12 2700 series the most. Yes, VR, Fenniarail and Operail has interchange with Russian Railways. Here in Finland the gauge is 1524mm and in Russia 1521mm,  so the different is only 3mm. I can see some Russian tank cars hear near at my home every day.

Johan

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Thank you. The front locomotive has a newer painting version but the newest is gray green. The Dv12 series was built mainly in the 1960s and 1970s and now VR has ordered new Stadler diesels. In a few years, the Dv12 series will largely disappear from the rail network.

 

Johan

Johan,  they remind me of MP-15s.. Very cool looking locos....

Always one of my favorite front ends - from the MPC era.

The PRR yards with the Rip track on the left and the ready tracks on the right.

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday.  Taken in natural sunlight. 

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Johan,  they remind me of MP-15s.. Very cool looking locos....

Ted. Thank you. 🤝

Johan

Johan: While I was empoyed in the Deutsche Bundesbahn Nuremberg hump yard in the 80s we received tank cars from Russia.  I remember when several got away from a crew and were sent to the runaway track.  What a mess.  Thankfully, they were empty at the time.  Then in the 90s after I had left my switching duties behind me and was employed as a service rep at the Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof, we had a through sleeper from Russia that terminated in Munich.  They were still in the green scheme with the Russian Ry. crest on the car side.  Impressive!

I really like the new Russian Ry. grey and red scheme.  It's really impressive!

Then there are the Chinese Ry. U.S. built GE Diesel units that operate on the world's highest railway from Peking to Tibet.  WOW!  Please pass the oxygen mask!

@Trinity River Bottoms Boomer posted:

Johan: While I was empoyed in the Deutsche Bundesbahn Nuremberg hump yard in the 80s we received tank cars from Russia.  I remember when several got away from a crew and were sent to the runaway track.  What a mess.  Thankfully, they were empty at the time.  Then in the 90s after I had left my switching duties behind me and was employed as a service rep at the Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof, we had a through sleeper from Russia that terminated in Munich.  They were still in the green scheme with the Russian Ry. crest on the car side.  Impressive!

I really like the new Russian Ry. grey and red scheme.  It's really impressive!

Then there are the Chinese Ry. U.S. built GE Diesel units that operate on the world's highest railway from Peking to Tibet.  WOW!  Please pass the oxygen mask!

I think the Russians loaded the cars by dipping them in oil.  I think that grey and red scheme looking a much better than the old green and blue. I like also our Fenniarail and Operail`s paint scheme´s

@Trinity River Bottoms Boomer posted:

Johan: While I was empoyed in the Deutsche Bundesbahn Nuremberg hump yard in the 80s we received tank cars from Russia.  I remember when several got away from a crew and were sent to the runaway track.  What a mess.  Thankfully, they were empty at the time.  Then in the 90s after I had left my switching duties behind me and was employed as a service rep at the Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof, we had a through sleeper from Russia that terminated in Munich.  They were still in the green scheme with the Russian Ry. crest on the car side.  Impressive!

I really like the new Russian Ry. grey and red scheme.  It's really impressive!

Then there are the Chinese Ry. U.S. built GE Diesel units that operate on the world's highest railway from Peking to Tibet.  WOW!  Please pass the oxygen mask!

My fiancé is Brazilian lives in Volta Redonda home of CSN one of the largest steel mills in the world. They use GE locomotives for MRS, VLI (my avatar) Rumo are some of the few. 

@SLQ32 posted:

My fiancé is Brazilian lives in Volta Redonda home of CSN one of the largest steel mills in the world. They use GE locomotives for MRS, VLI (my avatar) Rumo are some of the few. 

 

 Those are some very good looking locomotives'....👍✨

Happy FEF Everyone. These guys were switching on the yard the other morning.  Have a Great weekend 

Happy FEF!

Love that old BN Green/ white!

One of my other favorite paint jobs.