Front End Friday

@tnkMarx posted:

Happy FEF!

k-Line & Marx 333 loco’s.

That K-line NYC Pacific was a very sharp looking steamer.

@coach joe posted:

Lee, I seem to remember this Mohawk is a RailKing model that started out in ATSF paint.  Did you repaint the whole thing or just remove the ATSF markings before applying the NYC decals?  I plan on doing the same switch and would love to avoid a whole repaint.

Joe this is a Railking Hudson that was a Union Pacific that repainted and decaled with Microscale decals it’s not hard to take the tender apart.

Happy Friday everyone. Took this one day in St. Louis down by the stadium

E-gads...

Rusty

Happy Front End Friday. This is an old photo from 2015 and an old camera lol

Well Hello, F.E.F fans, its Friday already.  I have a sort of mixed consist today, some Lionel and a European loco most all from that glorious post war period of the 1950's and 1960's.

First, to augment BirkshireLover726,(Cody),  here is a somewhat later version of the the Lionel Berkshire, the 736, available from 1950 -1966.     This one is from the 1960's , but it really runs well.  This is about the largest engine that I can operate on my Leonardtown and Savannah RR, and only on the outside (0-31) main.

Another sort of well known "front end" is the Lionel NYC 2344/2344C A-B-A F-3 combination (so called "chicken wire" F-3's) available from 1950 - 1952.

Finally an odd one, this is a Konrad Dressler locomotive, labeled "made in U.S.zone Germany" which dates it from some time between 1945 and 1955. This loco is from the 1950's which matches the HWN Heinrich Wimmer , Nurmberg green coaches that its pulling also from the 1950's.  By the way, thanks go to Arnie, who gave me the ID on these trains.  Unlike the Lionel's above , this loco is clockwork.  

Well folks, that's my F.E.F input for today.  Have a happy and healthy weekend.

Don

oh boy, under the "What Engine Am I Wanting to BUY today"... That one.. on the left, and That one. Wow, cool fotos all.

From the N Scale side of things this Front End Friday, first one on the tracks is my Rapido Amtrak TurboTrain Power Dome Car #52…

…and my Kato Milwaukee Road Olympian Hiawatha EMD FP7A #95C.  Yes, technically I realize locomotive #95C was the trailing locomotive in the 3-loco consist – and faced the rear - but I noticed the number board in the photo after I put away everything from the photo shoot, so it is what it is 😊.  Plus, it is still the front end of the locomotive, if not the consist.

Happy FEF!

Love the D&H

D&H? FEF?

@RSJB18 posted:

Happy FEF!

Love the D&H

Couldn’t agree more!!! (I’m detecting a theme here today )

By the way, Bob, did you see the D&H PA diesels and 21” passenger cars in the new catalog???

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!

@Apples55 posted

By the way, Bob, did you see the D&H PA diesels and 21” passenger cars in the new catalog???

No, but now that you told me I can say that 027 curves are sometimes a blessing not a curse 🤪🤪

Bob

Good evening from cold Indiana PA.

Today’s short video is of a Pennsy M1A exiting a tunnel with a string of loaded coal hoppers on this cold January day.

snow days

@RSJB18 posted:

No, but now that you told me I can say that 027 curves are sometimes a blessing not a curse 🤪🤪

Bob

Happy Friday everyone enjoy your weekend

Lee Drennen, beautiful scene, nice diesel and cool piggyback cars... Today, a front of the Century Club 773 steamer. Happy Railroading Everyone

Happy FEF from Wabash

                         An oldy but goodie'

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!

Well everyone, here we are on F.E.F and some great pictures.  Leapinlarry, that is really a beautiful Century 773 Hudson.  Lee Drennen, the NYC F-3 with the Pacemaker tractor trailer in the background tells a great story.  DG some neat Wabash engines, we don't see that road much.  Jesse Ferguson the lighting on the hopper with the Southern GP is really neat.

My posts for today's "front end celebration" are two, both Marx and one diesel and one steam. First the GE 70 ton in Cape Canaveral colors pulling its load of "rocket fuel".  Since I worked for NASA I can vouch for the fact that they did have some similar diesels at the Cape (now Cape Kennedy) but the color scheme is not as cool as Mr. Marx depicts.  This loco was produced from 1959-1964.

Now the steam offering.  This is the Marx "mighty" 994 on my home town Leonardtown and Savannah, pulling out of the mountains and driving for the coast.  Shown here leaving the pine "forests" of inland Georgia (where a lot of our paper / plywood comes from) and headed home for dinner!!  OK I admit that the pine forest is just one tree and the mountain is just my short tunnel, but when you work in a world where 30" in width is all you have, you need to stretch your imagination !!

Hope everyone has a happy and healthy weekend.

Don

And now for something completely silly, the Rail Mouse!

Stuart

Stuart:  Sad to say that the picture of the "rail mouse" you posted did not come through to the site.  Please try again, I like many others I am sure am curious about what a rail mouse might be.  (LOL)

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Stuart:  Sad to say that the picture of the "rail mouse" you posted did not come through to the site.  Please try again, I like many others I am sure am curious about what a rail mouse might be.  (LOL)

Don

Hi Don,

Fixed it!

Stuart

How’s this:

                                                 Trainfam

Happy FEF everyone! Hope everyone is doing well, and here are my contributions to this Friday!

Photo 1: The Old Meets the New

Photo 2: The Big Three of the West

@Don McErlean posted:

Well everyone, here we are on F.E.F and some great pictures.  Leapinlarry, that is really a beautiful Century 773 Hudson.  Lee Drennen, the NYC F-3 with the Pacemaker tractor trailer in the background tells a great story.  DG some neat Wabash engines, we don't see that road much.  Jesse Ferguson the lighting on the hopper with the Southern GP is really neat.

My posts for today's "front end celebration" are two, both Marx and one diesel and one steam. First the GE 70 ton in Cape Canaveral colors pulling its load of "rocket fuel".  Since I worked for NASA I can vouch for the fact that they did have some similar diesels at the Cape (now Cape Kennedy) but the color scheme is not as cool as Mr. Marx depicts.  This loco was produced from 1959-1964.

Now the steam offering.  This is the Marx "mighty" 994 on my home town Leonardtown and Savannah, pulling out of the mountains and driving for the coast.  Shown here leaving the pine "forests" of inland Georgia (where a lot of our paper / plywood comes from) and headed home for dinner!!  OK I admit that the pine forest is just one tree and the mountain is just my short tunnel, but when you work in a world where 30" in width is all you have, you need to stretch your imagination !!

Hope everyone has a happy and healthy weekend.

Don

Thank You Don. I meant to do that I enjoyed building both of them

The one and only MTH locomotive I had the opportunity to pre-order from the catalog...I remember seeing this in mid-May and I knew I had to have it.  Just picked it up today!

Here's what she looked like 50 years ago, see link. Lehigh Valley GP9 301 (rrpicturearchives.net)

Tim

Happy Front End Friday!

@Berkshirelover726 posted:

Happy Front End Friday!

@Berkshirelover726

Cody:

Your Pennsy, L5 electric locomotive is FABULOUS!!!! Is that a Lionel or MTH model? What is the minimum diameter curve that it can negotiate?

Happy Friday everyone. Took this pic in East St Louis Illinois this week

Happy FEF!