Front End Friday

A variety of ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!

Happy FEF everyone from the land of the former Hoosier Line. Have a great weekend!

Wow, time sure flies when your playing with your trains! Happy Railroading Everyone

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Happy FEF everyone!  Day off, so I can post today...

Happy FEF to all. 

The Ohio Central passing through on the S&Y RR

Happy FEF!

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   The PA 1 and the VO 1000.  

Happy FEF.

Happy FEF from CSX Dash8 paint schemes. Here are 6 of them, there maybe more. Pictures 7 and 8 are side views of pictures 5 and 6 to help match the nose picture to a specific scheme.

One shy of a dozen scale K4's, prewar Scale Craft, Williams Brass, MTH, and of course Lionel Legacy....  How'd that postwar pilot get in there!!!

Here are a few 'frontal shots' from this past summer

@c.sam posted:

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Sam:

All of your photos are GREAT, but, I particulaly like the photo including PRR GG-1 #4876. That is the locomotive that was pulling the "Federal", a combined New Haven RR and PRR passenger train in 1953 to Washignton D. C. loaded with passengers for President Eisenhower's inauguration. The train developed a failure in its brake system sometime after leaving Baltimore and could not stop as it entered the terminal track at Union Station, Washington D. C.  4876 plowed through the bumper block and into the station concourse with its first few passenger coaches and sunk through the floor. Thanks to the weight and solidity of the GG-1 and the quick thinking by the on-board train crew warning the passengers to tuck down and brace for impact, no one was seriously hurt including the engine crew. 4876 was cut into smaller parts, shipped to Altoona shops, rebuilt and restored to service. It was retired from service in the early 1980's in northern New Jersey. Here are some new photos of the aftermath of the wreck.

Thanks Randy for the reminder and photos - I had heard that story years ago and it was good to see the images to show the magnitude of the disaster!

This is the JLC model obtained some years ago from this Forum.

Happy FEF everyone........

HUDSONS IN THE HOUSE YO!

After Ben’s (@bluelinec4) issue with the colors of his new Lackawanna switcher, I dug out my one Lackawanna engine - a TMCC FM Trainmaster from around 2002... I must say the darker colors are much more striking.

C Sam, beautiful PA diesels, beautiful GG1 green with 5 stripe diesels, Wow, Randy Harrison, thanks for the great information.  Wow... I was at my friends Dr. Jacks home Monday, this is a great picture for front end viewing... Happy Railroading Everyone...