Front End Friday

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!

                     happy "F E F" everyone !!

                                                               have a great weekend !!

  Trains on the ready line start to take on a yellowish tint as the afternoon sun heads for the horizon.  Meanwhile, the engineer and conductor for the train headed by #6716 compare watches in preparation for an evening run.

                                   Post war Lionel F3 that I painted Jersey Central in 1988.

Happy F E F & TGIF

SLQ32: David Wiegant, President of the Railroad Evangelistic Assn. (and retired Santa Fe as well as Amtrak locomotive engineer) who resides in Albequerque, N.M., is married to a lady from Brazil.  Of course my wife is German.  We're all in this together, right?  Hey Spotty, beam me up!

Percy and Thomas after a hard day's work.

The BNSF

Two postwar K4s.  Left is a 2035 from 1951...a very good year I might add.  Right is a 675 from 1948.  Both are smooth runners.

Fendermain

Two New York Centrals. A new Legacy 4-6-6T and my old MPC era Conventional F3’s...

I actually was running the F3’s for the first time in probably 30 years... I am going to post a short video on the Passenger Train thread.mHappy Friday to all and enjoy the weekend!!!

Happy F.E.F. everyone.  Sorry for the late start, had to work late today.  Here is my Burlington GP-7 #2328  pulling the mid day train for the City . 

Happy Friday everyone, have a good weekend.

Don

Fellows, I almost missed front ends Friday, but, better late than never.... Great pictures all, My friend the 1st Lieutenant came over today, this is his 3751... Happy Railroading Everyone 

Just had this upgraded and it’s outstanding 

Such a beautiful locomotive 

Happy FEF

The AT$SF

Happy FEF.

Finally got the GP38-2 front end finished.

            happy "F E F" everyone !!

                        Marci's photo...

Night time in the yard.

Happy Friday everyone enjoy your weekend. 

Happy FEF

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday! 

           The Ubiquitous ALco S1 

Once I saw Bill T’s Tacoma Rail SD70ACe I sorta wished that I had pre ordered one when the catalog came out but didn’t because of my problems with DCS and Legacy command not playing well together.  When I discovered Lionel’s Bluetooth LionChief could be used to run the newer Legacy engines I had to have one.  I bought one from Pat’s Trains which came today.  Got a really good price on it, too!

Larry

Addendum: I discovered that Lionel left off the road number, which is supposed to be right near the front of each side just below the broad white stripe.

Well here we are again, another F.E.F.  I noted that Fendermain posted a black 1989 E with a passenger consist in a prior post today.  Well I thought we might like to see the "mighty" 1689E up close, this one in gunmetal.  So here it is, offered from 1936-37, sold only in sets, the NYC Commodore Vanderbilt as interpreted by Lionel for its "Lionel Jr" line or eventually its 0-27 line.

Happy Friday everyone...have a great weekend.

Don

Your engine is a classic Don...thanks for sharing.

Fendermain

Happy FEF!

Some more BL-2's (need to find a BAR)

Happy FEF

Happy FEF

The Milwaukee

Happy Friday everyone! Enjoy your weekend. Took this in DeSoto Mo this week on my way home from work.

Happy FEF!

Happy FEF 

                                          NKP #759 at Steamtown Scranton, PA- Sept. 95'. 

                                                                          MY PHOTO

Happy FEF!

Hi everyone, it's F.E.F again !  The Leonardtown and Savannah has been thinking of pushing north from Leonardtown, (Md) via trackage rights with the B&O and thus gaining access into the City of Baltimore.  B&O would have a reciprocal agreement to gain access to southern Md and the western shore (of the Chesapeake).  So management is testing some of the B&O's new F3 diesels on the L&S trackage to see if it might work.

Here is the front view of that B&O F3 diesel.  Ready to move out towards Savannah.

Here is the side view, showing the full AA of the units.

For the collectors among us...these are Marx #62 lithographed sheet metal units, made 52-54; 58; 67  One 4 wheel powered truck in the leading A, trailing A has no power and "headlight" lens is red.

Hope everyone has a great (and safe) weekend

Don

Thanks goodness it's FEF! Here's some Espee power for you western railfans!

Correct me on this - but I believe this Dash-9 was one of the first models Lionel offered with TMCC.

Happy FEF.