Front End Friday

Happy Front End Friday everyone. In observation of this inauspicious date, Friday the 13th, I'm running trains that would have been at home in the dark railroading days of the late 1960s and early 1970s. First of all, my MTH Railking GG1 front-ending a bunch of Amtrak coaches.

Also this Railking Rectifier with a jumble of mixed freight.

Here's my impression of the Northeast Corridor amidst the Amtrak handoff around 1970.

Its Friday!  Here are a few Front Ends.

Happy FEF!

My Front Ends this Friday 9/13/24 are 4 examples of people movers.

First up is a MTH RailKing, O, 30-2158-1, PRR Doodlebug Diesel Engine #4999. Making stops through the rural countryside and terminating at a station of a small city which was also served by through passenger trains.

Next is a

United States Toy Train Company USTTC Trains model of a Washington DC, Metro set. The #500 Metro set was a three car set that featured the #500 powered A car, #501 B coach, and #502 dummy A.

A representative model of the Metro rapid transit trains that ran in Washington DC. Equipped with dual headlights, extruded aluminum anodized car bodies, chrome plated 18 gauge steel floors and vestibules, low center of gravity for high speed operation, illuminated interiors, and jeweled marker lights. Articulated vestibules facilitated operation on 'O-27' track. The Metro Set was powered by the former Marx motors. (The USTTC information was derived from an article by the TCA Western Division)

Next is a

MTH 20-2675-1 BMT Standards 3-Car Subway Set w/Protosound 2.0.

I added the white disc on the front gate. When I rode this train in the early’60s, the white disc indicated that it was the Bankers Special which switched from the BMT To IND tracks outside of Dekalb Av station and ran the Nassau Loop in Manhattan, stopping at Broad St, Nassau St, and Fulton St before returning to Brooklyn.

Last but not least is my FARMINGDALE TRACTION COMPANY Trolley which I relettered from a Lionel Pacific Electric Trolley that is currently offered by METCA.

Photos and video for this front-end Friday show Boston & Albany #53 on my 10’-by-5’ layout – a Lionel model (6-28702) of a USRA 0-8-0 steam switcher with TMCC made in 2006 at MSRP $649.99. Lionel’s excellent model of this engine has a fully round boiler on the underside and a prototypical space between the boiler and the frame.

B&A #53 was a U-3b class switcher built by Lima in April 1921. The engine had 25-by-28 cylinders, 51-inch driving wheels, weighed 219,000 pounds (about 364,000 pounds with loaded tender), and produced 51,040 pounds of tractive effort at 175 pounds-per-square-inch boiler pressure. When the B&A – a New York Central subsidiary – dieselized in 1951, #53 was renumbered to New York Central #7725 and ran on the Harlem Division until retirement in January 1955.

MELGAR

Happy FEF!

B&M SW-1 (MTH)

Bob

Happy FEF!

Gene

Happy FeF!  Here’s a night shot of some front ends at the station -

@pennsyfan  , Love the Traction!

The "Charles Street Yard" early this morning with a PA and F3 getting ready to roll...

Well even though its Friday, its a working day on the Leonardtown and Savannah, after all management needs the money!  So here is a leased UP MP-15 switcher hauling some boxcars off of the wharf area and down to the yard for classification and then routing to their destinations.  (Switcher is Kline and the box cars are Lionel)

Stepping a bit further back on the scene, we see the MP-15 exiting the edge of the industrial area and moving down the "street" tracks that run parallel to the local highway.

Happy Friday everyone, hope your weekend goes well

Don

Happy FEF!

Two Lionel ES44AC from the newest realese. Just received this week.

Great photos everyone! Wish I had something to share today, maybe next Friday! Have a great weekend!

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

Premiere NKP Berkshire hauling a mixed passenger consist through the western NC mountains

K-Line Girls Train.

@Dave Ripp. are there some home made cars in that train?  I don't recall air plane flats.  Didn't K-Line give out MP15s because the steamers weren't ready?  Do you have one?

@coach joe posted:

@Dave Ripp. are there some home-made cars in that train?  I don't recall airplane flats.  Didn't K-Line give out MP15s because the steamers weren't ready?  Do you have one?

Joe, I changed the 2 with autos to hard tops but the airplane cars are stock. Yes, on the MP15 & I do have it. I also have a cheaper less detailed and much lighter pink caboose. The scale caboose that came with the set is quite heavy for the end of the train.

Have a good Front End Friday all!

morning guys!

@Dave Ripp. That is one Hot Pink train! I guess you do what you got to do!

@Sitka Mark those are some nice looking engines! Just a side note note I like your collection in the background on the top shelf!!

@mike g. posted:

morning guys!

@Dave Ripp. That is one Hot Pink train! I guess you do what you got to do!

@Sitka Mark those are some nice looking engines! Just a side note note I like your collection in the background on the top shelf!!

Thanks Mike Gotta have beer and trains or is it trains and beer? God Speed Mike how's that layout coming?

Mark

@Sitka posted:

Thanks Mike Gotta have beer and trains or is it trains and beer? God Speed Mike how's that layout coming?

Mark

Morning Mark, I just posted in what did you do on your layout yesterday. I am still working on the room itself, but it is coming along!