Front End Friday

A little Burlington:

Rusty

@Apples55 posted:

Ahhhh... Santa 🎅🏻 🎅🏻 Fe Warbonnet. Another of my Favorites. Need any Menards Santa Fe box trucks??? I ended up with a bunch of them a couple of years ago 😂😂😂

Tempting but I'll pass for now Paul. I bought this car to get the free REA lighted stake body truck. Still waiting for it to arrive. The SF flat car looks sharp, I hope the truck is too.

Bob

Water Level Route Express

Happy FEF!!   😀

Get-n her going nice and smooth

My Atlas Holiday Trolley crossing the roadway on my still under construction Christmas Village layout. Construction should be complete this weekend with only a week to go! SMH

Ends of the front kind celebrate the holiday season!  

Happy FEF. Truly a fun engine with all the audio files.  

Good afternoon, todays photo is of two Pennsy M1A sitting at the water spout on a cold December morning.

The cardinal up in the tree is singing its winter song.

Soon the cardinal will fly off due to the thunderous  chuffs of steam and ash as M1 6715 starts its heavy train of loaded coal hoppers.

Have a nice weekend

Merry Christmas !!!!

A pair of postwar.

An MPC era Blue Comet and an MTH RailKing PRR K4-s waiting for the highball signal at Terryville Station.

Williams Penn Central F3

Different lighting pictures in front of the tree.

Good afternoon and Merry Christmas !!!

Todays front end shot is Pennsy L1 520 with a slow order passing thru the turnouts before West Interlock on a cold winter day.

Have a great and safe holiday season !!!!

Wow, it’s Christmas Day, 2020, so I’ll say Happy New Year to everyone that makes this forum happen, everyone behind the scenes, all the contributors, all the viewers, even WiFi, and Us, model railroaders...  All the pictures above are wonderful. Happy Railroading Everyone

Merry FEF Christmas!

Cheating a bit here.   My entries for this Christmas FEF are those of my new MTH Premier Amtrak Genesis P42 that I took earlier this week and post on the "Impluse Buy" thread.

It's the 40th Anniversary Bloody Nose Special Livery.

MTH RailKing M-1b

My two latest locomotive roster additions...MTH Premier CNJ F3 “A” units #53 & #58...

Had some fun with Scenic Express "snow" today. I confined it to my Marklin layout because, well, I didn't want to deal with the clean-up on the larger Lionel layout.

My wife liked the effect so much, she wants to keep the snow scene until Spring...

If you don't mind, here is a "Saturday" morning entry to FEF.  I'm riding the rails today for relaxation and took these photos of the southbound Tri-Rail at Pompano Beach.

@Amfleet25124 posted:

If you don't mind, here is a "Saturday" morning entry to FEF.  I'm riding the rails today for relaxation and took these photos of the southbound Tri-Rail at Pompano Beach.

"wish I were there"..... Id rather enjoy a ride with a friend from the forum. I have a friend in Portland, Oregon who said the train goes up to Seattle and back quite often. Since he has commuted for years on that line, his eyes miss all the cool stuff I would enjoy. Airport is close... fares are reasonable...

"I'll buy the hot chocolate".

thanks for the share

Thank you for your thoughts Miggy.

I'm just enjoying a nice and chilly (for us at 45 degrees LOL) Saturday morning. I'm traveling solo though, no friends.

I'm riding Tri-Rail to Miami Airport, then connect to the Metrorail and taking that to the southernmost stop (Dadeland South). Then repeat the procedure in the opposite direction up to West Palm Beach and have lunch with my bride of 22 years.

Nice engine, Kevin.  I have it, too, with the set cars and two add on cars.

Larry

@Amfleet25124 posted:

Thank you for your thoughts Miggy.

I'm just enjoying a nice and chilly (for us at 45 degrees LOL) Saturday morning. I'm traveling solo though, no friends.

I'm riding Tri-Rail to Miami Airport, then connect to the Metrorail and taking that to the southernmost stop (Dadeland South). Then repeat the procedure in the opposite direction up to West Palm Beach and have lunch with my bride of 22 years.

Nice way to spend a Saturday morning.

@Amfleet25124 posted:

If you don't mind, here is a "Saturday" morning entry to FEF.  I'm riding the rails today for relaxation and took these photos of the southbound Tri-Rail at Pompano Beach.

Nice layout, Kevin!

LOL, Arnold

6B6

Friday seems to have been held over.

Being a California boy, I can never get enough of the Espee...

Happy New Year & FEF!!!

In the spirit of Tom Fawell's EMD advertising artwork:

Rusty

Happy FEF

Happy New Year!

Happy FEF and Happy New Year!!  🙂🙂

Your Majesty:

The 773.

Arnold

Ends of the Front Kind for this fine first day of the new year!  Happy New Year everyone!!

New Kid on the block...

For something a little different

This years 2020 Lionel Hallmark keepsake Christmas ornaments. I have been receiving for Christmas 25 years.

WOW great pictures everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR !  Lets hope 2021 is better than 2020 (won't be too hard - LOL)  Wife and I have transitioned to the east coast, Georgia, to visit family for the month of January - big risk travel with COVID but we decided to take it.  Impact to me is that I am now posting some "archive" photos that I took before we left home in Texas.

This Friday, I noticed quite a mixture. SLQ32 the ornaments look great, I have not seen them photographed like that before, good job!  So my post today is in celebration of another "fallen flag" the Rock Island taken from a time when it was healthy and strong.  It is the Marx E7 interpretation of Rock Island livery.  The ABA units date from as early as '58.  The A units were available quite late, till '74 but the B unit stopped production in '61.

Here they are in classic F.E.F pose. Getting ready to leave the depot in downtown Savannah (on my fictional RR) don't have any idea what the RI would be doing in eastern Georgia but hey its all in fun!

Here is side view showing the full length of the ABA units.  Like Lionel, only the first A unit is powered the other A and the B are dummies.

Of course its hard to tell front from back, but here is the rear unit just as its pulling past the depot.

Just want to wish everyone the very best for the new year

Don