@Strap Hanger posted:Happy FeF! Where did the week go? Here are some front ends of my subway maintenance facility -
Spent a lot of years riding the 6 train… in college, to 28th Street or 23rd and Park Avenue South (Madison Hardware was at the top of the stairs on the uptown side). When I went to work, for 34 years, my office was between 26th and 28th on Park Avenue South - couldn’t seem to get out of the neighborhood!!!
A nice way to start a FeF without rain in upstate NY, Some New Haven action God Speed!
Well I can hardly believe it, here it is after 10 am in Texas and I am the first to post for F.E.F. I know others are going to come in so I guess I will just start it all. This is an American Flyer (Chicago Flyer) # 1211 steeple-cab locomotive. IAW my reference material this engine was uncatalogued and was available in the 1920's (I have no other more exact date). It came in two variations, one without a headlight and this one with a square, sheet-metal working headlight. It is said to be most likely the most uncommon steeple-cab electric although I couldn't confirm this beyond reading it in my reference material.
Here is another view of her at the head of a short, vintage AF passenger train. She does indeed still work including the headlight but I only rarely run her for fear of burning up some irreplaceable part in the motor. You can see that her pilot and a few of the forward edges of the cab and lower body show signs of wear, but I just don't like to erase the signs of a well used life, to me it adds to the charm of the item (obviously others have different opinions which is fine). So at nearly a century old she still looks "good" to me.
Well, I hope your weekend goes well . Best Wishes
Don
Here's my end of the front kind for this fine Friday! 
@Apples55 posted:Spent a lot of years riding the 6 train… in college, to 28th Street or 23rd and Park Avenue South (Madison Hardware was at the top of the stairs on the uptown side). When I went to work, for 34 years, my office was between 26th and 28th on Park Avenue South - couldn’t seem to get out of the neighborhood!!!
Yep, I remember those rides to Baruch well. It’s funny how at the time I thought it was pretty grungy but now looking back, it was really quite awesome. The city was our campus.
Happy FeF and thanks for kicking things off Don. Here are a few front ends on this fine Friday -
FEF….Amtrak style.
Baldwin should have put the Shark Nose on their Centipedes; might have sold more.
Lionel.
Happy FEF!
better late than never..... been one of those weeks....🤯🤯🤯
A little FM always does the trick.
Bob
A couple of unusual Std Gauge locomotives. A Glenn FA and a Forney GP.
Steve
Another week is in the books - Happy FEF everyone. Here’s a Lionel VisionLine Niagara…
This die-cast model of Great Northern #98 was made by Atlas O in 2001. GN #98 was an EMD SW8 locomotive built in June 1951. It was used in Seattle.
MELGAR
MTH RK PRR FM Trainmaster
@Strap Hanger posted:Happy FeF and thanks for kicking things off Don. Here are a few front ends on this fine Friday -
Another fantastic shot!!! And another of my much travelled lines… as a legally qualified long suffering Met Fan, I took the 7 train to Shea Stadium (and the ‘64-‘65 Worlds Fair) more times than I can count!!!
Here's my MTH "final edition" ALCo "Big Boy." Again, firing her up to keep the PS3 electronics healthy:
This week, I reworked the articulated engine's suspension system with a stiffer, more stable spring to get more downward force on the articulated engine, thus balancing the load on each gearbox and getting better overall tractive effort. As with my "Veranda," shown last week, I can't run my Big Boy around my oval for lack of 072 curves, but I think she'd (he?) easily pull that string of potato reefers from Pocatello her crew talks about from Sherman Hills to Cheyenne!
@Mark V. Spadaro posted:John - have never seen a model with the huge spotlights. Is that a custom add-on, or a production model?
Hi, Mark: Those are so-called “ash can” signal lights. They were used like the later Mars lights etc. They resembled ash cans (garbage cans) and thus acquired that nickname. My son added a pair to his GP9, and I added a pair to my SP H12-44. 
Thx for the link, and the explanation, John.
MTH RK GN GP9
Happy FEF with Missouri Pacific engines (then and now)
Happy Front end Friday! Here are a few shots of a repainted R12 on the #1 line (circa 1970s) that’s been mysteriously transported to our Flushing, Queens elevated tracks -
Happy FEF!
Bob
Here's my end of the front kind for this fine Friday! WM locomotive engineer J.D. Higgins wishes everyone a fabulous Friday!! 
MTH RK C630 - a recent acquisition from a Forum member.
Here is the front end of Union Pacific GP38-2 #2048 - an MTH model with PS1. I used this engine to test the track and wiring when building my 12'-by-8' layout between 1999 and 2004.
MELGAR
Well here is one of my favorites, from the early MPC era at Lionel, 1973-74, the # 8303 Jersey Central "blue" Columbia 2-4-2. In those days Lionel was trying to re-establish itself in a much smaller market than today and selected the Columbia 2-4-2 , in a sense , to launch its efforts in steam trains again. It made the Columbia from 1970-1976 in both cataloged and uncatalogued units, in sets, for separate sale, and in quite an array of liveries. Lionel did use the Columbia in the postwar era as well especially in Scout sets and low end 0-27 sets and there are differences between postwar and MPC Columbia's but they are too detailed to discuss here. Most of the best features of the postwar engines were continued and new ones were added. In the case of the #8304 the big new feature is "Electronic Sound of Steam" and this was one of the first engines to have it.
So here is a stalwart, the Columbia 2-4-2 one of many sisters, ready to go to work (MPC wisely replaced the postwar Scout motor with a much more reliable spur gear motor in all these engines).
Hope your weekend will be great. Enjoy!
Don
Happy FEF to everyone! This will probably be my last one for a while as I start my courses next week.
Here are three of my favorites:
Waterman Locomotive Works Std Gauge F7’s.
This week on the layout, I'm running my MTH Imperial CB&Q Aeolus! You could say that this is a fantasy scheme for the Yellow Belly Hudson, but that's only partially true... everything aft of the boiler front does resemble the prototypical Aeolus.
Here's the video I took earlier this week.
I was messing around with my iPhone this afternoon, so here's my FeF for today! LoL while running the engine around to park it at the train depot platform, the right rear traction tire broke off. I'm guessing you can figure out what I'm doing on my layout today. 
Happy Friday ya'll!
Have a good start of your weekend a PW 736 2-8-4 Berk from 50-51 and a 2240 Wabash AB unit from 56.
Ye ole 6220 growling tonight.
Make it a great weekend all.
Happy FEF and have a great weekend everyone! This is a customized Scale-Craft Hudson with Michigan Central markings for the NYC.
"Dolly Sister" #415 getting ready to move out, awaiting dispatcher release:
I have posted this before, but I am still amazed at how much smaller the correct "scale" MTH A5 is to K-Line's version. Plus, the MTH's headlight is correct for my era. I have put a lot on money into upgrading the K-Line so I will keep it for the Christmas layout, and make the MTH my small working shifter on the main layout.
@Strap Hanger posted:Happy Front end Friday! Here are a few shots of a repainted R12 on the #1 line (circa 1970s) that’s been mysteriously transported to our Flushing, Queens elevated tracks -
Boy was that switch alignment wrong! And the motorman never even noticed until he got to nShea!
Good luck in school Trainmaster04.
Papa those F&s look great.
Trainguy Ken, love the helium cars in the video. When will you be 3D printed a correct boiler front for the Aeolis?
Scott nice photos from that iPhone.
Happy FEF!
Bob
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