Front End Friday

@Apples55 posted:

Thanks Bob. Since my pike is in PA though, the 200 is just another Lawn-guy-land interloper (and heaven knows, we already have more than enough of them in my little corner of NEPA!!!). I have always really liked the PRR/LIRR symbol...

You mean this one?

Yea it's missing the keystone...

@RSJB18 posted:

You mean this one?

Yea it's missing the keystone...

Gotta have the Keystone or it just don’t fly... it’s just Long Island

Friday’s really fly around these days, lots of nice pictures and hopefully everyone is staying safe and staying healthy, Today, two versions of Lionels Big Boys, parked on a siding. One VisionLine 4014, one the new Legacy version, First Run edition. Happy Railroading Everyone

Good morning, I have not posted any pictures on this topic for sometime but I have sure enjoyed the photos other members have posted.

This week my wife and I was in Clearfield PA and caught this RJ Corman empty grain train led by NS power.

This train is heading for Cresson PA to the NS Pittsburgh Main Line.

Have a good weekend and please stay safe !!!!!

Happy FEF on this 13th day

End of the front kind for this fine Friday!

Union P. Coaltrain

Unfortunately The 100MB limit will not allow for all 43 cars.

TGIF....FEF

Digging thru the archives so that I can contribute.  A few photos of the N Scale variety from my former club (South Florida Railway Museum in Deerfield Beach).

First, a meeting of two SD60M's in the yard (CSX 8759 and Union Pacific 6253)

And a few photos of a CSX GP40-2 (#6318)...

Up close and personal

Then with locomotive out for focus to the background quarry building...

And then with the locomotive in focus with the quarry blurred in the background.

None of these photo styles were done by design.  I just noticed the effects when I was going through the slides to present them here

Randy Great shot!! I had to do a double take thinking this was real!

Hi everyone, happy F.E.F to all.  Today I have my new (to me) Marx 588 NYC switcher in the hard to find light grey/black livery.  This was made one year only 1962 with tab / slot couplers (year I graduated from High School!).  I was especially pleased to find this one as I now have all 3 liveries (Black, Maroon, & Grey) that Marx produced the NYC 588.  their total production, beginning with the Black / White livery spanned '58 -'62 with a re-appearance of this grey one, only with plastic knuckle couplers in 1964.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Don McErlean, you are the very best at finding some of the most unique Marx engines I’ve ever seen. Amazing, great find. The engine I’m showing belongs to a great friend of mine from Nashville, Tennessee. Happy Railroading Everyone

Happy FEF

@SLO32

Thanks for the compliment. This was photographed on my back deck with live pine trees at the end of the yard. So, that much is real. The camera angle on the locomotive is also convincing.

Happy Front End Friday the 13th on the SP.

Leapinlarry - thank you for the compliment.  I do get a kick out of trying to find the "odd balls" and I enjoy the fact that others enjoy seeing them as well.  Your post as always has pictures of great engines and your fabulous lay out.  I never tire of seeing what a great "empire" you have built.  WP great video...I admit to jealously when I see layouts like yours and Larry's with great track work and small angle switches.  I am afraid I am a "plywood, foam, painted green, Lionel 0-22 switches and 31" dia radii " kind of guy...but I do love to make them "go round" .  WP that livery on your diesels, is that what they called the "black widow" scheme?  Sorry if I am all messed up.

Best regards to all

Don

Don McErlean, Thank You for the nice response, I think we have something in common, Texas, I’m from Dennison Texas. As you can see from the 100’s of the OGR Forum members, each collection is different and uniquely neat. Some love pre-war, post war, modern, American Flyer, Marx, MTH, Lionel, Third Rail, K-Line, Weaver, Atlas 0, and even different types of trackage, Conventional and even different command systems, even outdoor Railroading LGB, Peco... and on and on. A basic table, painted green, tubular track, old Lionel post war, or Marx can be just as entertaining going past those nostalgic accessories, working the arms of that old ZW transformer, or the old LW with a light up as you turn the lever, it’s All Fun.

I’ve visited many many layouts, over 250, examples like Dr. Bill Bramlages Tower City, to Gale Rotching’s 16 by 16 layout with a jam packed bunch of accessories, turn table, extraordinary design, (Cincinnati Ohio) and a friends 4 by 8 table fully sceniked with the old Lionel 675 steam set flying around the track with post war freight cars and of course the milk car delivering milk.  All fun to run. All trains are fun, your nostalgic collection of older trains is fun to see. I love them all.

Don McErlean: Thank you for your kind words. Yes the SP F3 locomotive is in the so-called “Black Widow” paint scheme, one of my favorites. I love all types of layouts. I grew up drooling over the Lionel layouts in the 50’s catalogs, and I still like them as well. For fun, this year I made a small 4’ x 4’ layout using  027 track and the pair of manual 027 switches Santa brought me in 1957. It is that old fashioned simple type layout with 1950’s style trains and  scenicing. I love them all.