Front End Friday

@Amfleet25124 posted:

Going thru all of this day's posts now and just saw yours, Strap Hanger.

I had no idea that I was posting the same 1950's R12 Two-Tone livery subway model that you did earlier.  Cool motorman!  Your station platforms look real good also.

Great minds think alike, Kevin. Time to add some motormen to your engines. Nice collection you are building!

Old pic, but lotsa front ends for Friday there!

Just about missed Front End Friday all together.  Almost, but we made it!

Happy FEF

I'm giving the front end a little love...

Rusty

Well hello again F.E.F fans.  Ralph those are beautiful F-3's in the B&0 livery.  Great shot by the way.

Well here are some "front ends" from a slightly earlier period in diesel history.  The M-10005 era of the early 30's, at least as interpreted by Mr. Marx. These are the #791 and #792 clockwork engines and (for 791) articulated coaches.  These were mfd by Marx in the postwar period from 1948-1952 although some variations did occur pre-war.

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Happy Friday everyone, have a great weekend.

Don

Here's a couple of LionChief front ends to brighten your Friday...

Happy FeF!  Coming around the elevated bend -

Another day of smoke lockdown, AQI is 304.

Here is at least one front end for today.

Stay well, John

oops, forgot the pic

@Ralph M posted:

This is a great shot! I had to do a double take. 😃

Happy Friday!

Happy FEF

FEF!

Here's some steam and MOW action..

Ron

Happy Friday everyone

A tale of two Berks. Handsome green B&A K-Line 2-8-4 with steamwater heater and nice piping and the Lionel #779 NPR Berk pose on the club layout this week. Am offering the Lionel on the For Sale forum soon if interested. Beautiful locomotives!

Here are my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!!

I usually don’t run my steamers, but I have three: an MTH Railking Hudson, that I relettered for the Lackawanna, a semi-scale NYC Hudson from K-line, and a post-war Lionel 2034 for around the tree. Which reminds me, I have four- the LC Polar Express Berkshire. They all run well. I run the K-Line with four NYC Madison style cars from MTH. The K-Line is very well detailed, with working markers, smoke, and whistle, although I usually run it with a RailSounds boxcar. Here it is:

Happy FEF

Pennsylvania Railroad front ends

@Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

A little different FEF from the TCA Convention today.

Steve

I like it!

@beardog49 posted:

oops, forgot the pic

Who's the engineer, Buck Rodgers or Flash Gordon?

@PRRronbh posted:

Ron

Very crowded up front there.  Makes for a really small smoke box door.

Happy FEF!

Time for a happy subway conductor on this Front End Friday. Don't let your subways go without them -

Happy Friday everyone enjoy your weekend

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!

Rusty

Front End Friday!
PRR B6sb switcher by MTH Railking.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's class B6 was its most successful class of switcher with an 0-6-0 wheel arrangement.

Hello folks, happy F.E.F again and another week wraps up...too soon it will be fall.  Why daytime temperatures in Texas have already fallen way down below 100 degrees, I'm looking for my parka !! Great photos everyone, strap hanger the effect of the soft pale yellow nighttime light really enhances the realism of your subway photos...great technique.

Well today, I thought I might go back quite a ways to the early 1930's.  Mr. Marx was the sole distributor for the trains produced by the Gerard Model Works of Erie PA.  He would later buy this company and re-tool the loco's and rolling stock into his famous 6" series of cars and CV locomotives but that would not occur until 1934-35.   So here is about the last gasp of the true Girard Model Works designs, called "JOY LINE" trains.

Here is the #105 Red Sheet metal clockwork locomotive from 1932-34 getting ready to pull her consist of passenger coaches from the depot.

OK, I know its Front End Friday but I thought you might like to see the #357 coaches and the #458 observation made from 1931-1934.

You  will note that all these dates terminate in 1934 and that is because in 1935, Mr. Marx and his brother acquired the Girard Model Works and formed the Louis Marx Company and modified the line of toys somewhat.  The company was owned by the two brothers, although Louis owned about 51% hence controlling share, for decades.  By the 1940's Marx was the largest toy manufacturer (not just trains) in the world.  When train production peaked in the 1950's he was producing some 300,000 sets per year.

By the way, living up to the Marx reputation, this little fellow can still be wound up and pull his little consist around my mostly flat layout.  Not bad for nearly 90 years old!

Best wishes, have a great weekend

Don

Picture taken a few weeks ago in Hyannis on Cape Cod...the NH unit most likely hauls the dinner train...

This Front End arrived in the mail today for me so I'm happy .  More NY area transit trains.

This is original LIRR M7 sets, not the re-issued Lion Chief one, where Lionel went cheap and used the same mold as the Metro North M7 from the parts bin with the protruding roof vents

I have a totally unrelated topic question which I will be posting shortly in newly created thread.

Happy FEF!

FEF

Custom Marx powered futuristic train set made by Frank Read.

Steve

Lackawanna caboose hop.

MTH GP7 repainted by me and caboose by Malcolm Byrd…

Tom