Front End Friday

@Don McErlean posted:

Well happy F.E.F everyone!  Another week comes to a close.  My theme today is..."How the Mighty and Fallen"...

Don thanks for your narratives....they are both informative and enjoyable.

@SLQ32 posted:

Happy FEF This actually happened tbe other day when i wasn’t looking and everything shut down. So i decided to use it and take some pictures.

All clear good job everyone. It’s Miller time!

Excellent'... presentation'.. I like the equipment, and those figures are very cool... Nice job'...😁

@SLQ32 posted:

Happy FEF This actually happened tbe other day when i wasn’t looking and everything shut down. So i decided to use it and take some pictures.

All clear good job everyone. It’s Miller time!

I agree with Ted.  Some great images that you did there with the maintenance crew.  Glad you thought about the situation scene and the repairing of it as a great photo opportunity.

Which end of a switcher is really the front?

This one?

Or this one?

Well, they were nice enough to let us know.

Lionel NW2.

Rich Wiemann - thanks for the compliment, glad you enjoy my fantasy ramblings about my fictitious RR 

SLQ32 - what a great idea to take your "accident" and turn it into a scene on your RR.  I really enjoyed the presentation, great job and great innovative thinking.

CAPPilot - that is one handsome PRR switcher...OBTW you can tell which is the front , because that is the way the crew in the cab are facing..!!  (LOL)

Don

Happy Front End Friday. I may have posted this one before but it's one of my favorites.

Apparently, My First Scale O Lionel Switcher. I've only thought of Lionel as just Kewl Christmas Trains. After failing several times to buy the same matching "scale", not that easy. Size matters

She pulls slow and smooth. Happy smiles anyway

Happy FEF!

Posted on another thread.

Pete

I’ve been on a HO Scale buying binge (for me it’s a binge) recently but to the fore today is O Gauge for Front End Friday is this new beauty, the ominous looking MTH Halloween Crusader.  Once I saw it on the Halloween thread last year by Trainlover160 https://ogrforum.com/...9#151773314401480329, I knew that I had to have one and replace my Peanuts/Snoopy locomotive.  MTH panic buying made the locomotive scarce.  Purchased it from OGR forum sponsor Mario’s Trains and it arrived in the mail on Wednesday.  Great service by Mario's Trains.

Yes, it is April, but I’m already looking ahead to October and making plans for my 2021 Halloween layout which will include a Hogwarts Express.

Thankfully the guy on the motorcycle is a rail fan and is enjoying the K-Line B&A Berkshire passing by, rather than trying to beat it over the crossing!

Happy Friday everyone enjoy your weekend

Here's 50+ years of front ends - an MPC F3 roars past a set of postwar RDC's while a LionChief ET44AC passes overhead.

End of the front kind for this fine Friday!  Washington Terminal RS1 #46

@Farmall-Joe posted:

Thankfully the guy on the motorcycle is a rail fan and is enjoying the K-Line B&A Berkshire passing by, rather than trying to beat it over the crossing!

Joe', that is a great scene'.. Quite realistic'... A smart rider for sure'... ANd boy that is a very good looking locomotive.... Lots of details...

https://www.facebook.com/djjul...os/1985761721577915/

Thought i would share this to all us 3 railers. 3rail Brazilian style!

Multi gauge is prevalent throughout Brazil however model railroading is dominantly 2 rail. 😂

SLQ32, Great link.  Here is one that was state-side !!

http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/3rail.Html

   Been a while since I’ve had anything new for FEF!  
Now if I can only get my layout update finished...

Here's some more MPC front end action...

@Farmall-Joe posted:

Thankfully the guy on the motorcycle is a rail fan and is enjoying the K-Line B&A Berkshire passing by, rather than trying to beat it over the crossing!

One of my favorite engines. I'd love to find one for myself. Preferably the Lima A-1 model

To the Black and Orange, Good FEF to you all!

Still working on the finishing touches on the "Charles Street Yard'...got the outhouse installed this week!  A big hit no doubt

Front end action, Look above, Mark

So here is a different take on FEF 😂

Crossing the East Branch...

Gandydancer1950, that’s  a beautiful scene with the NYC AA lightning stripe design pulling a neat train that brings back many fond memories. Wow. Everyone, happy Railroading.

Saw this in EOLA yard on the way home tonight.

@CBS072 posted:

A Santa Fe Slug leading the way.

Nice slug and CF7. Did you do the builds?

Cab forward going by.

Alcos PAs

Ron, you appear to be a "PA" fan like me...I can still recall what I called the "big diesel" as a kid pulling in the station.  I have the Santa Fe's like you and the PRR tuscan...thanks for sharing the video!

With this thread up to 85 pages, I hope I didn't post this earlier:

This also works for "Tail End Tuesday"

My very first scale-wheeled MTH diesels back in 2009.

@lee drennen posted:

Happy Friday everyone enjoy your weekend

Lee, Good to see that the UP Trailers have returned home safely after assisting with the "Tsunami Flooding" repair efforts at the "Carpet Layout flooding Emergency". Thank you, thank you very much. Always a fun story and great photos

@AGHRMatt posted:

Nice slug and CF7. Did you do the builds?

Yes, I did them a few years ago. The front truck of the GP7u and the back truck of the slug is powered. It has TMCC with RC airplane servo cables for MU cables which powered the slugs front light and coupler and powered truck and center rail power pickup.  The GP7u can run by it's self.

The body of the slug is made from a "For Sale" sign from Walmart. and All the extra add on parts are from Atlas O  GP7/9 and GP35 parts.

I had the slug for many years, the body was a block of wood.  I purchased the Lionel GP shell at a train show for #3.00.  I had a JC Penny's ATSF GP7 that had a bad E unit but good powered trucks with the DC motors in the trucks,  I knew if I was to have lights and power in the slug I needed to build an styrene body. I used a For Sale styrene sign for the body and styrene square rod for inside surport.

I have also built a smaller slug from a MTH end cab calf. It has a TMCC dummy broad from the front light and coupler, but not MU'd to the powered engine.

Well I guess I have to admit to being late, since its Saturday morning.  Spent yesterday in Hospital waiting room while wife had minor surgery and tried to post from my phone (it was a 6 hr wait) but no joy...I am just not phone technology competent.  So here is my Friday post --- yes I know its Saturday.

Here is a little rather late manufactured (likely 60's or 70's) clockwork Karl Bub freight .  Loco is an 0-4-0 with smoke lifters no less.  O gauge and all sheet metal and runs on 2-rail track.

Here he is from the side, loved the "lightning bolt" symbol although he is not really fast.

Here he is with his little train, at least as much of a train as I acquired with the loco.

Best wishes for a Friday (on Saturday! )

Don

Don, you know what they say'... Better late than never'.. cute little set'... You come with the most nostalgic items...

QuarterGauger48..."Thanks Mate!"  Couldn't hardly miss a F.E.F!!

Don

better late than never.....

I'll start off the day with a look back...

Photo of my younger self - with hair - in front of a New Orleans Streetcar during New Year's 1989/90.  My mother is on the other side and a family friend was in the middle.  We were in the Crescent City for the 1990 Sugar Bowl between Miami and Alabama.

My next trip to New Orleans was in 2014 with my wife and one of my sons.  I wanted to re-create this same shot 25 years later but they weren't interested.  So I took a photo of the front of an oncoming streetcar.  No closer shots of the streetcar in my photo files unfortunately