@Hancock52 posted:Two front ends, one possibly more authentic than the other. Anyway, I have run them together and they match:
Model railroading, your allowed to have fantasy paint schemes, its your railroad! I think the SP AC-12 Cab Forward looks great in Daylight colors! Both are beautiful models!
Never too late to post for Front End Friday! Got a little late night switching to do in and around Paradise. The last passenger trains have all left for the night, but they'll be back first thing in the morning, so this is the best time to move freight around and prepare to move 'em out!
Happy Friday everyone, have a great weekend!
2-8-0 #108 heading back to the yard.
Andy
@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:
Wow, looks great Ed'. Are you happy with the color? I heard others are not.. I'd love to see a video, when you have time.....😁📸👀
color is OK. A little light, Here's a video:
Ed, that is hands down the best video of the Veranda DOD (or any of these models) I have seen. Thanks very much.
Wowwwwwww'... Ed, that is outstanding... Excellent video'.. I didn't realize it was the Lionel version yesterday. I think MTH has a similar version and that's the one getting the paint color complaints. I looked at this model today on Train world, It is a pretty penny.. However, you video helps justify the cost. It is really a very cool engine with so many controls. Again excellent performance'... Thanks for a great video'....👍👍👍👍👍😁✔
@WesternPacific2217 posted:Never too late to post for Front End Friday! Got a little late night switching to do in and around Paradise. The last passenger trains have all left for the night, but they'll be back first thing in the morning, so this is the best time to move freight around and prepare to move 'em out!
Happy Friday everyone, have a great weekend!
Wonderful photo Scott!!! Looks like this switcher is stopped for a red signal right at dusk. While stopped the headend brakeman wanted to check the switch list and flipped on the interior cab lighting to do so.
@WesternPacific2217 posted:Patrick, I did not know you had a Shay, must have missed that. It looks like a 3 truck Shay, what railroad, I can't read the front number plate? I've seen Mr. Rusty weathered Pennsy before, still looks great.
I've had the pleasure of riding behind both the 2 truck and 3 truck Shay's at Roaring Camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains, CA. They pull a 8% grade on they're daily excursions. Shay's are incredible locomotives. Thanks for sharing them.
Nice '56 Ford too! you have some great automobiles on your layout.
Scott - the Shay is two truck. It's a K line product with TMCC. I like it a lot but don't run it often because when/if it breaks, parts will be almost impossible to find. I run it only when I have folks over to see the layout which has been only a hand full of folks since Covid. Hopefully that is about to change.
The road name for the Shay is Westside Lumber Company
As for the 1956 Ford, it was the first car I remember my Uncle Leon driving. As a very young child I took many rides in that 1956 Ford. Had to have one on the layout in his memory .. he was quite a character!
Ted, thanks comment. I enjoy making the videos, and every now and then they turn out pretty good. Glad you liked it. About the cost, as you often tell me, "Hey, you only live once...go for it!" 
Hancock52, I appreciate the comment very much. Thanks!
Ed
@ToledoEd posted:Ted, thanks comment. I enjoy making the videos, and every now and then they turn out pretty good. Glad you liked it. About the cost, as you often tell me, "Hey, you only live once...go for it!"
Hancock52, I appreciate the comment very much. Thanks!
Ed
I was in Trainland a few weeks ago and they had 3 of the Veranda's up on the wall. The DOD version is hands down the best of the bunch. And they are huge too! Great video too Ed.
Bob
Thanks Bob. They are huge, and heavy! Hands down, one of my favorites....if one can have favorites in a collection.
@trumptrain posted:Wonderful photo Scott!!! Looks like this switcher is stopped for a red signal right at dusk. While stopped the headend brakeman wanted to check the switch list and flipped on the interior cab lighting to do so.
Patrick, thanks for continuing the story on my post! It’s great!
Well hello F.E.F. fans, here it is a new Friday and I appear to be starting us off. It's "Good Friday" and most of the folks here in central Texas have a 4 day Holiday, so maybe a lot of people are taking family time and that's great. Just thought I would start us off with a picture I took ,over a year ago but I don't think I have posted it on this thread. Its the (Chicago) American Flyer Type X , first offered in 1932 as the No. 3308 changing to No. 3309 in 1934 when it was equipped with a remote reverse and a "ringing bell" feature was dropped. It ran until approximately 1939 nearly the end of Chicago flyer and the beginning of the A.C.Gilbert take over of the brand, eventually moving it to Connecticut and initiating the postwar "S" gauge line.
The F.E.F. view of the 2-4-2 Chicago Flyer Type X .
Here she is, pulling into the "small town" commuter station just after leaving the "mountains".
Well best wishes to everyone for a happy and healthy Easter weekend.
Don
Happy FEF Everyone, also Happy Easter Weekend, Don, that’s a oldie but a beauty American Flyer Steamer, brass trim and a larger headlight for safe night travel, Wow, and Ralph M., that’s a beautiful Pennsy K4, one of my favorites. Happy Railroading Everyone 
Here are my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday! 
A little subway work train front end action -
A front end slowly coming atcha.
Have a Great Front end all, Some P.R.R. PW Lionel K4s at work and some helpers rounding the bend
S-2 #455 on the move.
Andy
I'm a day late for FeF as I was traveling all day yesterday flying home from some vacation.
Here's my new Western Pacific F7 ABA set coming around the corner along Butt Valley Lake. The campers on the right might be surprised after the train passes to find a family of black bears on the other side of the tracks!
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
@leapinlarry : Larry I am a little late catching up, but thanks for your compliment on my Chicago Flyer engine. I don't really seriously collect Flyer but something about that "old" look with the brass / copper trim and big headlight was just too much to pass up when I acquired her a few years ago.
Happy Easter everyone
Don
Have a great weekend all, Some PW P.R.R. Turbines moving some goods, Thank a Vet!
Here are my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday! 
Baldwin R16 Shark demonstrator. 
Switcher front ends. 
GP9 front end.
Happy FEF!
Sitka - Great photos, really nice layout!
Patrick - Awesome photos and I hadn't seen the Shark Nose Demonstrator before on your layout!
Bob - Gotta love those switchers!
Ralph - Those are some pretty Geep's, beautiful paint jobs.
Here's my entry for FeF. Mortal enemies, WP and SP side by side in Paradise.
Happy Friday!
HAPPY FRONT END FRIDAY everyone.
Happy FEF Everyone.
Wow, Friday’s roll by faster and faster each week. @Westernpacific 2017 Scott, those are beautiful F units, and the SW8 SP switcher, and I saw your video on another thread, amazing. Also, @Dallas Joseph, neat video and cool layout, it’s really nice. Happy FEF fellows, I’m sure Don McErlean our Texas friend, will show us some cool steamers or diesels that are oldish and rarish…. (Humor) and Happy Railroading Everyone 
I will "chime in" with Dallas Joseph and wish everyone a " Happy Front End Friday" and a great weekend ahead. Today I have some neat trains but I will admit them to be somewhat of an imposter. These are French Hornby "Hatchette" trains. They are reproductions (with lower quality) of French Hornby trains of the 1930's - 1950's. Believe it or not they were offered as "premiums" if you purchased an issue of a train hobby magazine and they date from the 1990's. They are reasonably good copies with great lithography but the mechanisms / construction do not have the quality of the original Mecanno products but they do work and they look really good. Very candidly when they come up at auction, vice $50-70 per car for the originals, they run $4-5 per car so its just fun to pick them up and admire them and run them to whatever extent you can (the engines are inevitably clockwork).
Here is the Hornby Hatchette 0-PO French locomotive (this is a clockwork model. In French Hornby nomenclature the electric versions would be labeled OE-PO) operating on my home layout. The original was actually originally designed to take curves as sharp as a 1 ft radius so it just loves my 0-27 and 0-31 track. This is a replica of an engine introduced by French Hornby in 1938 in both an electric and a clockwork form. This engine was offered both before and after the war and the dark green color of this replica would (if it were an original) date it to about 1952. OBTW dispite it being a replica, it most certainly can pull a small train around my mostly flat layout. It does not however have a governor, so speed control is by the classic method of adding or subtracting cars in the consist (shades of very early Lionel!) . About 2 or 3 cars seems to be a good balance of both speed and range.
Here she is again with a somewhat better view of the M series Tank car carrying wine ( I believe - but then again its only my high school French - and that dates to 1958!!) There does not seem to be an actual Hornby car with this livery but the size and shape duplicate the "M" series petrol tank wagons that were offered (" Essence M") around 1935 and also came back after the war and were available from about 1948
Here we see an interesting reproduction. This "open wagon" or ( "Marchandises M ") first appeared in this brown color in 1930 and stayed this color until 1934 when the color switched to green. This green open wagon returned in the M series after the war and was available up into the mid to late 50's.
Well there you are, a tinplate reproduction (shades of MTH, Lionel, and Williams ) where you could get a train car free if you purchased an issue of a magazine you were likely already going to buy anyway. WHAT A DEAL!!
Best Wishes everyone
Don
Thanks to everyone for all the presentations of great looking equipment. It serves as a great motivator for some of us. Bill
@BAR GP7 #63 posted:Happy FEF Everyone.
BAR GP7, that is an awesome scene! Your stream looks fantastic and serene. I can see myself dipping a lure into the stream with that Geep growling and whining in the background!
@Don McErlean posted:
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Best Wishes everyone
Don
Wow Don.........some new types of engine and rolling stock. Amazing variety in the photos you have posted of your layout over time.
Thanks for sharing 
@leapinlarry posted:Wow, Friday’s roll by faster and faster each week.
Can't seem to slow down these days from going by so fast. Everyone must be having fun for that to happen
Great looking detail on these two locomotives Larry.
@BAR GP7 #63 posted:Happy FEF Everyone.
Nice scene Johan. Looks like a great place to start having a weekend of camping and fishing. 🤓
@trumptrain posted:A front end slowly coming atcha.
I realy like that paint on the Gp. I have a conventional Williams like it but I never found one like an MTH ps2 or ps3. Thanks for sharing this video Patrick .
@leapinlarry posted:
That large observation area at the car end is pretty neat Larry. I never saw one like that before. Thanks for sharing.
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