Front End Friday

A variety of ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!

Happy FEF everyone from the land of the former Hoosier Line. Have a great weekend!

Wow, time sure flies when your playing with your trains! Happy Railroading Everyone

F-E-F

Happy FEF everyone!  Day off, so I can post today...

Happy FEF to all. 

The Ohio Central passing through on the S&Y RR

Happy FEF!

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   The PA 1 and the VO 1000.  

Happy FEF.

Happy FEF from CSX Dash8 paint schemes. Here are 6 of them, there maybe more. Pictures 7 and 8 are side views of pictures 5 and 6 to help match the nose picture to a specific scheme.

One shy of a dozen scale K4's, prewar Scale Craft, Williams Brass, MTH, and of course Lionel Legacy....  How'd that postwar pilot get in there!!!

Here are a few 'frontal shots' from this past summer

@c.sam posted:

@c.sam

Sam:

All of your photos are GREAT, but, I particulaly like the photo including PRR GG-1 #4876. That is the locomotive that was pulling the "Federal", a combined New Haven RR and PRR passenger train in 1953 to Washignton D. C. loaded with passengers for President Eisenhower's inauguration. The train developed a failure in its brake system sometime after leaving Baltimore and could not stop as it entered the terminal track at Union Station, Washington D. C.  4876 plowed through the bumper block and into the station concourse with its first few passenger coaches and sunk through the floor. Thanks to the weight and solidity of the GG-1 and the quick thinking by the on-board train crew warning the passengers to tuck down and brace for impact, no one was seriously hurt including the engine crew. 4876 was cut into smaller parts, shipped to Altoona shops, rebuilt and restored to service. It was retired from service in the early 1980's in northern New Jersey. Here are some new photos of the aftermath of the wreck.

Thanks Randy for the reminder and photos - I had heard that story years ago and it was good to see the images to show the magnitude of the disaster!

This is the JLC model obtained some years ago from this Forum.

Happy FEF everyone........

HUDSONS IN THE HOUSE YO!

After Ben’s (@bluelinec4) issue with the colors of his new Lackawanna switcher, I dug out my one Lackawanna engine - a TMCC FM Trainmaster from around 2002... I must say the darker colors are much more striking.

C Sam, beautiful PA diesels, beautiful GG1 green with 5 stripe diesels, Wow, Randy Harrison, thanks for the great information.  Wow... I was at my friends Dr. Jacks home Monday, this is a great picture for front end viewing... Happy Railroading Everyone...

@Randy Harrison posted:

@c.sam

Sam:

All of your photos are GREAT, but, I particulaly like the photo including PRR GG-1 #4876. That is the locomotive that was pulling the "Federal", a combined New Haven RR and PRR passenger train in 1953 to Washignton D. C. loaded with passengers for President Eisenhower's inauguration. The train developed a failure in its brake system sometime after leaving Baltimore and could not stop as it entered the terminal track at Union Station, Washington D. C.  4876 plowed through the bumper block and into the station concourse with its first few passenger coaches and sunk through the floor. Thanks to the weight and solidity of the GG-1 and the quick thinking by the on-board train crew warning the passengers to tuck down and brace for impact, no one was seriously hurt including the engine crew. 4876 was cut into smaller parts, shipped to Altoona shops, rebuilt and restored to service. It was retired from service in the early 1980's in northern New Jersey. Here are some new photos of the aftermath of the wreck.

Wow, Larry what a situation'... I hope the Engineer didn't receive a major *** chewing'...And, where the heck  do you start to clean up this mess'.... Thanks for posting'....👍

Wow, another Friday.  Its only 7:13 here in Texas but its pitch dark already, those winter days are coming.  Well its the early 30's on the Leonardtown and Savannah today, and the mighty Gerard Model Works, "Joy Line", CW steamer is about to get its heavyweight consist on the move .  Its somewhere between 1932 - 1935 just before Louis Marx would take full control of the Gerard Model Works (Gerard, Pa) and extend and expand it into Marx Trains.  At this time, Marx was a key person in the Gerard Model Works business as he was the exclusive distributor (agent) for their products.

Hope everyone has a great weekend, stay healthy

Don

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Wow, Larry what a situation'... I hope the Engineer didn't receive a major *** chewing'...And, where the heck  do you start to clean up this mess'.... Thanks for posting'....👍

Here is a good synopsis of the 1953 wreck of the Federal at Washington, D. C. Union Station as published by the Washington, D. C. Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society. Though, I personally have done extensive research into this event, This article touches all salient points for a good account of the event. Click the link below:

http://www.dcnrhs.org/learn/wa...-the-federal-express

As an addendum to the above information, the engine crew braced for the impact and climbed out of the engine unhurt, a testament to the superior construction of the GG-1. The Fireman (yes, fireman on an electric locomotive) lived many years after the wreck and, not too many years ago, gave a public talk about his recollections of the wreck. I need to relocate my source on the fireman's talk through the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society (PRRT&HS) of which I am a long-time member. I will post more information on this historic event in the "Real Trains" section of this forum at a later date.

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Wow, Larry what a situation'... I hope the Engineer didn't receive a major *** chewing'...And, where the heck  do you start to clean up this mess'.... Thanks for posting'....👍

Ted, it's DC, you start with lots and lots of taxpayer dollars! 

Don McErlean, Wow that’s a beautiful red steamer, you always give us neat older trains to review, Marx, Older Lionel, Wow, Carey TeaRose, your colorful train layout and specifically the beautiful Standard gauge layout, is so cool, it’s fun to review, Friday’s just roll around faster and faster, see the Big Boy Swinging around the curve..... TGIF... it’s 5:45 AM here in Tennessee. Happy Railroading Everyone

Happy FEF!

I just received some railroad books from a coworker who is clearing out a relative's house.

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!  

Happy FEF to all.  Splendid  front ends so far.  Prewar 616 on the left.  Postwar 2046 on the right.

My favorite Flyer loco, by far:  Number 21130.

Happy FEF to all, here's a front end

And a head end

Enjoy!

Rail fanning on company time!

The Hudson sisters at home and at rest.

My older MTH AT&SF Engine and 605 tender pulling two older Lionel Halloween cars on an O-31 Fastrak circle. Near the “Park-In Theater I’m creating with my large iPad. 1/24 automobiles.

The “Phoebe Snow” just left Lionelville, and is heading for Buffalo.

Little Santa Fe action. 

Happy FEF.

@Randy Harrison posted:

Here is a good synopsis of the 1953 wreck of the Federal at Washington, D. C. Union Station as published by the Washington, D. C. Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society. Though, I personally have done extensive research into this event, This article touches all salient points for a good account of the event. Click the link below:

http://www.dcnrhs.org/learn/wa...-the-federal-express

As an addendum to the above information, the engine crew braced for the impact and climbed out of the engine unhurt, a testament to the superior construction of the GG-1. The Fireman (yes, fireman on an electric locomotive) lived many years after the wreck and, not too many years ago, gave a public talk about his recollections of the wreck. I need to relocate my source on the fireman's talk through the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society (PRRT&HS) of which I am a long-time member. I will post more information on this historic event in the "Real Trains" section of this forum at a later date.

Went through the history again that you posted'... Very interesting..  A clogged peacock'...WHo would have guessed'....

Hi everyone, it's F.E.F. again...YEA!  Leapinlarry - thank you for the compliment and let me say that the scenery on yours and trumptrains layout is just fabulous thanks for the great pictures.  Well fellows, I guess I will continue to picture things at the opposite end of the beautiful scale and stick to what I know best..."old,broken, and obscure"  (Sounds like the nickname for a RR ) This poor fellow was never well loved by his maker, but I bet some little boy or girl loved him a lot.  He is an unnumbered sheet metal , Type XX engine. Uncatalogued  by his maker, American Flyer and made somewhere around 1935.

Here he is  with the "front end" view.  Sorry no headlight bulb  and his boiler front is showing its age.  However, for the bottom of the line, he has nice copper trim, domes and stack.  In addition he has a gear driven whistle attached to the rear of the motor.  He would be a 2-4-0 if complete but my version is an 0-4-0 as the front truck is missing or perhaps was never added by Flyer.  Hey at 86 years old, I might be missing a few front teeth!

Here is more of a side view showing his copper hand rails and piping to the steam dome.  The writing in the smooth square name plate near the boiler front is a decal stating "American Flyer Lines" .  He is an electric engine not clockwork.  The type XX has the distinction of being the last of the Chicago Flyer steamers.

While this fellow is a long way from being in mint shape, I can tell you he was a "find" in an obscure antique store (as I followed my wife around looking at antique furniture) for the sum of $12, what train collector could resist!!

Happy F.E.F.

Don