Front End Friday

A Happy F E F to all here!

Winter:

Well, "Spring" actually. A Maple Sugar Special at West Salisbury, Pa with FPA2 #4015 on-point.

Summer:

Again, #4015 running-around an excursion train, a train with the home-built open-air car.

Switching action on the PER.

Just took this photo of a northbound Tri-Rail led by a Hyundai Rotem Cab Car #518 at the Pompano Beach station on this rainy morning here.

Happy Front End Friday!!!

Playing with early morning light on this F E F.

At this time-of-year the Sun rises in the Southeast and streams in the South-facing Train Room window so the light hits this Northwest facing engine.

A few feet further forward:

I like this shot the best, taken with the train another few feet further forward:

Finally, a Front End of a different kind:

Happy FEF!

It is June 1949 and the Train of Tomorrow has completed its 2-year tour of the U.S. and is getting ready for its visit to Canada.

S HiRail and S Scale, so happy together:

Rusty

Wow great looking line up already guys!  

           happy "F E F" everyone !

                   Marci caught this one working out at the Anderson's last week...

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   Have a great weekend everyone!

       NJT G.E. E60, 6000 HP, Electric at E-Port- Oct. 86'.  All ten NJT E60s were retired in 1998.

                          This engine was saved and donated to the UHRS of NJ.

                                                            MY PHOTO

B&A

Here is a 1:1 scale picture of Irish Rail Express at Dublin in the Irish Republic ready to depart for Belfast in Northern Ireland.  Wife and I

were on this train, May 26, 2019 .  

Happy FEF everyone

Don

Here we go with my originally intended entries for today.  My 7:02 am photo sent in earlier this morning on my commute was just perfect timing 

Two shots from last Friday afternoon of southbound Tri-Rail trains at the Metrorail/Tri-Rail Transfer Station in Hialeah.

First, loco BL36PH #822

And then GP49 #816.  This was an out of service train leaving the Hialeah rail yards to Miami Airport to get in place for its northbound run.

You will notice that the trains are running to the left side of the engineer.  Because of the design of the transfer station, both northbound and southbound trains will alternate the platform they operate on. The west side platform I took the pictures from is the one that is directly connected to the Metrorail station (the east side platform is connected via overhead walkway to the west side platform on the north end of the station in addition to crossing the tracks at-grade at the south end of the station) so depending on the time of day, the trains with the majority of the directional flow of passengers gets the west side platform so that commuters can make their transfer connections easier to/from each mode.

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 Johan, that is a great looking box car'..  Did you modify that back end with the opening doors?  Great auto car'...

I took these several years ago at a railway museum near Krakow, Poland.

Since its still Friday where I am, here's a couple of fast front ends from a trip my wife and I took to Italy last May (about which I posted a short description on OGR last June).  These front ends look fast, even when standing still.  The first is Alstom's ETR-675 for the private rail Italo, which we rode from Rome to Venice.

The second is Bombardier's ETR1000, the "red arrow" built for the state railway Trenitalia

which we rode from Venice to Florence.

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 Johan, that is a great looking box car'..  Did you modify that back end with the opening doors?  Great auto car'...

Ted. Thank you. Yes, the back doors are 3D printed and i build also the interior. This is a speeder car. The idea came from to Joey Kelley. 🤝

Johan

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 Johan, that is a great looking box car'..  Did you modify that back end with the opening doors?  Great auto car'...

Ted. Thank you. Yes, the back doors are 3D printed and i build also the interior. This is a speeder car. The idea came from to Joey Kelley. 🤝

Johan

 That is very cool'.  You did a great job capturing the prototype'... Nice work'... Johan'..