Front End Friday

Well Happy F.E.F folks...Here is a little Japanese Tin Plate for today's entry.  It is a bunker type switcher with an attached coal bunker marked NYC.  It is clearly O'Gauge but actually designed to work on a flat track type system (like an O'Gauge roadway) rather than actual rails.  The maker is "ALPS" and their trade mark is their name written over a line sketch of some mountains.  She is battery powered, using "D" cell inside the boiler.  She has a working head light and fwd/reverse action (manual reverse).

Happy Friday All...hope you have a great weekend.

Don

Oklahoma Railway Museum 2018.  

@Amfleet25124 Kevin, I certainly agree with you! I believe its still the best looking track around and it keeps with the vintage look of postwar.

                happy "F E F" !!      it's been a hot one this week...

         suppose to cool down some this weekend,  have a great one everybody !!

Happy Front End Friday! Hope everyone has a great weekend. 

Happy FEF!

ALCO parking

Rusty

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!  

Happy Friday everyone. This week this was the Front end lol 

Here are photos of two 1:8 scale trains at the Tradewinds and Atlantic Railroad in Coconut Creek, FL that I took last December.  I plan on joining that club once things return to normal (they're currently closed to the public).  I know very little about steam engines, so if any of you know what the 1:1 version is of the steamer in the photo please let me know.

Lots of great front ends since I last checked in.

Larry, I love the Lionel "graffiti" on the mountainside.

Bob, very sharp sharks.  What brand?

Anyone have any info on Don's Wildlife Express?  The locos in the Magic Kingdom are steamers so Disney world does have a steam program.  Did they expand it with the new park.

Winter must be coming, Milwaukee snowplow running the rails of the S&Y RR

Coach Joe:  Except for the pictures, I really have no further information on the Wild Life Express.  While the engine most certainly pulled the train and it gave out some indications of steam, I just did not see the products of combustion (smoke, heat) that I associate with a steam engine.  Their handling of passengers is such that you really cannot get very close to the engine ( I leaned WAY over a barrier to get the shots I posted) so I cannot say more.  If you are in the park however, Its a dandy little ride and seems quite authentic.

Don

Headend comin atcha.

@trumpettrain posted:

Headend comin atcha.

 Nice job Pat'....

Happy FEF.

                                             Rides like a feather'

NYS&W F45 #6370 at Pelton Rd. Warwick, NY on a very cold Jan.87'. I may have posted this one a while ago but I needed some snow to look at...... 

                                                                                MY PHOTO

@PAUL ROMANO posted:

                                    

NYS&W F45 #6370 at Pelton Rd. Warwick, NY on a very cold Jan.87'. I may have posted this one a while ago but I needed some snow to look at...... 

                                                                                MY PHOTO

Snow is always a good thing to look at in my opinion.  Wouldn't mind seeing some on my backyard lawn right now.  Will never happen though as I live in South Florida.