Front End Friday

Lee Drennen, beautiful scene, nice diesel and cool piggyback cars... Today, a front of the Century Club 773 steamer. Happy Railroading Everyone

Happy FEF from Wabash

                         An oldy but goodie'

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!

Well everyone, here we are on F.E.F and some great pictures.  Leapinlarry, that is really a beautiful Century 773 Hudson.  Lee Drennen, the NYC F-3 with the Pacemaker tractor trailer in the background tells a great story.  DG some neat Wabash engines, we don't see that road much.  Jesse Ferguson the lighting on the hopper with the Southern GP is really neat.

My posts for today's "front end celebration" are two, both Marx and one diesel and one steam. First the GE 70 ton in Cape Canaveral colors pulling its load of "rocket fuel".  Since I worked for NASA I can vouch for the fact that they did have some similar diesels at the Cape (now Cape Kennedy) but the color scheme is not as cool as Mr. Marx depicts.  This loco was produced from 1959-1964.

Now the steam offering.  This is the Marx "mighty" 994 on my home town Leonardtown and Savannah, pulling out of the mountains and driving for the coast.  Shown here leaving the pine "forests" of inland Georgia (where a lot of our paper / plywood comes from) and headed home for dinner!!  OK I admit that the pine forest is just one tree and the mountain is just my short tunnel, but when you work in a world where 30" in width is all you have, you need to stretch your imagination !!

Hope everyone has a happy and healthy weekend.

Don

And now for something completely silly, the Rail Mouse!

Stuart

Stuart:  Sad to say that the picture of the "rail mouse" you posted did not come through to the site.  Please try again, I like many others I am sure am curious about what a rail mouse might be.  (LOL)

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Stuart:  Sad to say that the picture of the "rail mouse" you posted did not come through to the site.  Please try again, I like many others I am sure am curious about what a rail mouse might be.  (LOL)

Don

Hi Don,

Fixed it!

Stuart

How’s this:

                                                 Trainfam

Happy FEF everyone! Hope everyone is doing well, and here are my contributions to this Friday!

Photo 1: The Old Meets the New

Photo 2: The Big Three of the West

@Don McErlean posted:

Well everyone, here we are on F.E.F and some great pictures.  Leapinlarry, that is really a beautiful Century 773 Hudson.  Lee Drennen, the NYC F-3 with the Pacemaker tractor trailer in the background tells a great story.  DG some neat Wabash engines, we don't see that road much.  Jesse Ferguson the lighting on the hopper with the Southern GP is really neat.

My posts for today's "front end celebration" are two, both Marx and one diesel and one steam. First the GE 70 ton in Cape Canaveral colors pulling its load of "rocket fuel".  Since I worked for NASA I can vouch for the fact that they did have some similar diesels at the Cape (now Cape Kennedy) but the color scheme is not as cool as Mr. Marx depicts.  This loco was produced from 1959-1964.

Now the steam offering.  This is the Marx "mighty" 994 on my home town Leonardtown and Savannah, pulling out of the mountains and driving for the coast.  Shown here leaving the pine "forests" of inland Georgia (where a lot of our paper / plywood comes from) and headed home for dinner!!  OK I admit that the pine forest is just one tree and the mountain is just my short tunnel, but when you work in a world where 30" in width is all you have, you need to stretch your imagination !!

Hope everyone has a happy and healthy weekend.

Don

Thank You Don. I meant to do that I enjoyed building both of them

The one and only MTH locomotive I had the opportunity to pre-order from the catalog...I remember seeing this in mid-May and I knew I had to have it.  Just picked it up today!

Here's what she looked like 50 years ago, see link. Lehigh Valley GP9 301 (rrpicturearchives.net)

Tim

Happy Front End Friday!

@Berkshirelover726 posted:

Happy Front End Friday!

@Berkshirelover726

Cody:

Your Pennsy, L5 electric locomotive is FABULOUS!!!! Is that a Lionel or MTH model? What is the minimum diameter curve that it can negotiate?

Happy Friday everyone. Took this pic in East St Louis Illinois this week

Happy FEF!