Front End Friday

Happy New Year to my fellow OGR's!!!

Here are slides of a few photos that I took at the Hialeah railyard last Saturday (Boxing Day) when I was riding trains for relaxation that morning.  Apologies for the glare and reflections in the photos as I took these while looking out the window of my Tri-Rail coach.

A line of tired old motive power that are "lashed up " in the yard.  According to Wikipedia, all 5 of these engines were retired from service in 2015

F40's #802, 803, and 805 are from the original service roster in 1989, with 802 and 803 displaying the old livery.

GP49's #813 and #814

In the background of the last photo is CSX ES44DC #5326 which is obviously still in revenue service.

Last, but not least, is the "rear end" of CSX GP38-3 #2004 that was also in the yard that morning.

I'm going to stick my toe in the Kool-aid this time. Happy New Year everyone. The SD70's are a Christmas present to myself and #1225 is waiting for the passengers to board for the last trip to the North Pole.

Good morning and Happy New Year !!!

In this photo we have two of the Pennsy’s finest passenger and freight engine waiting there turn to enter the main line at West Interlock.

Engine crews from K4 3858 and M1 6715 exchange Happy New Year greetings to each other on this cold January morning in 1949 as they patiently wait for their proceed signal.

Happy FEF New Year

Good morning, did you ever have one of those days ??

This will be more than likely the response when West Interlock operator gets home tonight for supper.

On this winter day in January.

Pennsy L1 203 is late with a train of loaded coal hoppers on track two. This train had air pressure problems earlier in the day and is now running 20 minutes late.

With this train late Pennsy M1 6755 can’t cross over onto track two.

Pennsy L1 520 is sitting on track one waiting for 6755 to clear.

There is a short video showing M1 6755 starting its train with loaded coal hoppers.

Just one of those days !!!!!

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday.  

@MarkStrittmatter posted:

Good morning, did you ever have one of those days ??

This will be more than likely the response when West Interlock operator gets home tonight for supper.

On this winter day in January.

Pennsy L1 203 is late with a train of loaded coal hoppers on track two. This train had air pressure problems earlier in the day and is now running 20 minutes late.

With this train late Pennsy M1 6755 can’t cross over onto track two.

Pennsy L1 520 is sitting on track one waiting for 6755 to clear.

There is a short video showing M1 6755 starting its train with loaded coal hoppers.

Just one of those days !!!!!

Hey Mark,  I  really like your picture of the tower.  How did you do the icicles on the roof?

Happy FEF!

PRR 0-6-0 Switcher

@MarkStrittmatter posted:

Good morning, did you ever have one of those days ??

This will be more than likely the response when West Interlock operator gets home tonight for supper.

On this winter day in January.

Pennsy L1 203 is late with a train of loaded coal hoppers on track two. This train had air pressure problems earlier in the day and is now running 20 minutes late.

With this train late Pennsy M1 6755 can’t cross over onto track two.

Pennsy L1 520 is sitting on track one waiting for 6755 to clear.

There is a short video showing M1 6755 starting its train with loaded coal hoppers.

Just one of those days !!!!!

Love the icicles hanging off the switch tower. Nice visual effect.

Good morning Bill and Chris, I got the icicles at Micheals Craft Stores a couple years ago.

They came in a flat cardboard package that had some very small  Christmas wreaths and evergreen garland. With these items I have decorated many of my  houses and business's. My layout is winter and Christmas themed.  The items that come in the package are very close dimensionally for Ogauge.

I purchased several sets of these packages at the time and currently I am almost out of everything including icicles.

Unfortunately I did not see these items at Micheals or any Craft store this Christmas Season.

Not sure if they where LEMAX , Dickens or some other brand.

At the time to save some space in my work area I took the items out of their cardboard packaging and placed them in my small bolt bin trays for storage and the packaging was discarded so I can't get you a name of the supplier from the packaging.

I glued the icicles to the roofs with Woodland Scenics Water Effects product. At the top of the icicles it looks like ice laying in the rain gutter because the Water Effects drys clear.

Thanks for the compliments.

Take care and stay safe !!!!

Happy FEF!

Happy FEF from an beautiful early era of style from NY to Chicago

Happy FEF!

Hello F.E.F fans, I must admit it is a dreary, cold, wet day in coastal Georgia today...a temporary location while we visit the east coast (U.S.) branch of our family before traveling back to Texas.  For today I am going to continue my thread of Marx plastic diesels with one from the Missouri Pacific.  I really like this one for its colorful livery and I have a picture with the matching MP caboose.  Its from 1975-76 so its about 45 years new.  It is modeled after the GE 70 Ton Switcher although it is likely a long way from a "scale" model.  After all Mr. Marx made toys, candidly that is what I personally love about them.  I can run them around my simple layout without feeling guilty!!

Have a great weekend

Don

Susquehanna!

Sometimes this is the “front”...

Happy Friday

Sorry I haven’t been posting I just got over Covid and double Pneumonia in both lungs. I’m still having trouble breathing sometimes I did return to work So here we go caught this guy last week in St. Louis. Enjoy your weekend.

@lee drennen posted:

Happy Friday

Sorry I haven’t been posting I just got over Covid and double Pneumonia in both lungs. I’m still having trouble breathing sometimes I did return to work So here we go caught this guy last week in St. Louis. Enjoy your weekend.

Lee, dont worry about us, you take care of yourself so you can take care of your family! I hope you feel better soon!

@mike g. posted:

Lee, dont worry about us, you take care of yourself so you can take care of your family! I hope you feel better soon!

Thanks Mike. I’m doing a lot better just wish I had the desire to start Model Railroading again.