Front End Friday

@Apples55 posted:

Bill… Bill… Bill… are you suggesting I am a bad influence???

Definitely another amazing and beautiful offering from the good folks at METCA.

Indeed! Nothin' but trouble! GOOD trouble, though...

@ecd15 posted:

It's too bad 3rd Rail doesn't put the "F" on their locomotives to denote the forward end.  We should talk to their graphics guy about that. 

Do you mean this F on the long hood? 

Happy Front End Friday everyone! On the layout this week, I'm running Boston and Maine freight trains. My MTH Railking 4-8-2 Mountain is handling mixed freight on the outer line.

On the inner line is my newly built RX500 pulling some ex-Rock Island covered hoppers. I did a build write-up on how I converted this locomotive from a Beep.

Check out the video!

Boston & Maine #1563 is an MTH Premier model with PS1 and a BCR delivered in 1999. Still running frequently and one of my favorites.

MELGAR

Amtrak on The South Fork Railroad.

Front end Friday already? Wake the bums up! -

R36 in Worlds Fair colors pulling into the station on the No 7 line.

Here are my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!

Great North Eastern Railroad I weathered for a good friend.

Washington Terminal Co. RS 1

Have a fine FEF all!

Happy FEF!

A speeder sits on a siding while RDG SW-1 rolls by.

Here is a Hornby type 101 tank engine repowerd with a Marx 4 wheel drive to make it electric, leaving the depot with a string of Hornby LMS coaches.  The 101 Tank Engine and the LMS Coaches are both early post war, dating from about 1946-48.  By the way, should you find a decent Hornby shell, electrification via using the Marx 4 wheel drive motor is easy and works really well.  This drive is from an inexpensive Marx 400 loco although in this case the shell was repainted as well.

Best Wishes, hope you have a great weekend

Don

Beautiful pictures everyone, and this is a great thread and always fun to review. @Don McErlean, you win again, the oldest locomotive pulling a beautiful train, your collection of Marx and Hornby and possibly Ives is amazing. Today I have some steam power ready for work, and some diesels ready to. Happy Railroading Everyone

@leapinlarry -  Larry thank you so much for your comment.  Your layout and pictures are , as always, fantastic.  What a collection of steam and diesel.  Love the layout and your posts.

Best Wishes

Don

Happy Friday!  

How about a couple of Union Pacific diesels from the early 1960s? Both are Lionel Legacy, an F7 and a GP9.

Hello all, my FeF for the day. Western Pacific #485 GS-64 in the evening sun waiting for track orders.

If WP 485 Northern Class 4-8-4 looks familiar, it could easily be mistaken for Southern Pacific #4460 GS-6 on display at the National Museum of Transportation, St. Louis, Missouri. Not surprising during WWII WP piggy backed an SP order for 9 GS-6 locomotives in 1943 and designated them GS-64. WP ordered only 5 GS-64s, numbers 481-486. WP needed more locomotives, but due to the War effort steel was rationed, and 5 was all the could get. All 5 were scrapped by 1958.

Link below to a FeF of 4460.

https://tnmot.org/collection/s...cific-railroad-4460/

Happy Friday, and have a great weekend!

I have five scale PRR GG1s.  Two are WbB conventional engines that I run at shows pulling 14 Williams passenger cars.  Two others are painted in Bicentennial colors, one real ( Conrail) and one fantasy (PRR).  These come out around the 4th of July.  The 5th one is an MTH PS2 3V version painted in the 1941 Modified Loewy Scheme (serif lettering).  This engine fits my layout's late 1940s era the best, but until I get some catenary it is not run much.

By sheer coincidence, I just got my new-to-me Pennsy GG-1 running (I had to completely rebuild my test layout with O-42 track to accommodate it -- the combination of O-27 track, minimal clearance, and the GG-1's weight meant it wouldn't successfully run on *any* of the five loops I already had set up!). However, I still have a conundrum:

Is *this* the front end?:

Or, is *this* the front end?:

Inquiring minds want to know . . .

[Apologies for the state of the layout -- I literally stripped the old test layout down to the OSB to make room for the new track oval, and haven't had time to add back anything! ]

@CAPPilott,  Ron, I love those scale model GG1’s, they are awesome engines, great pullers, and fun to watch. I’ve seen pictures of your Bi-Centennial Mideast from past posts, they are also gorgeous models. @Don McErlean, thanks for the kind words, I remember your visit to my home last July during the 2022 TCA National Convention in Nashville. Happy Railroading Everyone

@leapinlarry  Thank you.  I need to bring out the Bicentennial engines again for some pics.

@Steve Tyler.  That post war 2360 did not have the 'F' on it, so I guess you can call either end the front.

@Steve Tyler posted:

By sheer coincidence, I just got my new-to-me Pennsy GG-1 running (I had to completely rebuild my test layout with O-42 track to accommodate it -- the combination of O-27 track, minimal clearance, and the GG-1's weight meant it wouldn't successfully run on *any* of the five loops I already had set up!). However, I still have a conundrum:

Is *this* the front end?:

Or, is *this* the front end?:

Inquiring minds want to know . . .

[Apologies for the state of the layout -- I literally stripped the old test layout down to the OSB to make room for the new track oval, and haven't had time to add back anything! ]

Steve - the first picture has a small F over the truck, forward of 2360, so that’s your front end.

@CAPPilot posted:

@Steve Tyler.  That post war 2360 did not have the 'F' on it, so I guess you can call either end the front.

Well, I was being a bit tongue in cheek with my comment, but I *did* actually look for an "F" (as I've seen posted here and elsewhere) but couldn't find it, so thanks for confirming that my eyesight has not yet *completely* failed!

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Steve - the first picture has a small F over the truck, forward of 2360, so that’s your front end.

Son of a . . . you're right!

Guess I better get my eyes checked after all!

For front end Friday, a 1990 scale Hudson and cats.

Front end B&O Sharknose and a pair of Virginian EL-2B.

@jstraw124 posted:

Front end B&O Sharknose and a pair of Virginian EL-2B.

Sharp

@cbq9911a posted:

For front end Friday, a 1990 scale Hudson and cats.

SD70ACe:

Meow...

Happy FEF everyone. Here’s a Missouri Pacific Lionel GP7 with a custom made piggy back set up on the point I made.   Enjoy your weekend everyone.

Happy FEF!

A couple Penn Central SW's at the ready.

Bob

Here’s a few front ends of an R36 Subway train riding the El on this fabulous Friday -

The front end of Pennsylvania G-5s #5740 - an MTH model from 1999 with PS1 - on my 10'-by-5' layout.

MELGAR

Railking

Have a great FeF and the start of your weekend!

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday.

Brakeman Bernie Schoppert rides the front deck of Patapsco & Back Rivers Baldwin VO1000.  

In 1950 a Western Maryland BL2 and NW class J are side by side.  Front ends of Seagrave fire engines can also be seen outside of Patsburg's Fire Dept. Co 5.  

Well there seems to be a lot of PRR "front end logo's" today so I thought I would add to the list.  Here is a Lionel 2025 from 1947-49 and 1952.

Here is one of my little "Beep's" with the same symbol.

And just for fun, here is a 1954 Chevy (Belaire) and a 1955 Chevy (Nomad)

Best Wishes, hope you have a great weekend.  I am headed to a train show early tomorrow (about 125 miles away) so I will be off line...as far as the forum goes but wish me luck!

Don

@Don McErlean, Don, beautiful post war vintage Steam, nice beep, beautiful autos to, and I’ll join you in Pennsylvania power… Happy Front End Friday everyone, stay safe, stay happy, pray continually.

Here’s my newly acquired front end of just a fun locomotive to run.

Gene

C&O Greenbrier #612 on THE SOUTH FORK RAILROAD.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well there seems to be a lot of PRR "front end logo's" today so I thought I would add to the list.  Here is a Lionel 2025 from 1947-49 and 1952.

Here is one of my little "Beep's" with the same symbol.

And just for fun, here is a 1954 Chevy (Belaire) and a 1955 Chevy (Nomad)

Best Wishes, hope you have a great weekend.  I am headed to a train show early tomorrow (about 125 miles away) so I will be off line...as far as the forum goes but wish me luck!

Don

Don, safe travels to the train show and hope you find something good for the layout there!  Curious to know what brand / manufacturer the '54 Chevy is??

@Genemed posted:

Here’s my newly acquired front end of just a fun locomotive to run.

Gene

Which one did you get? I have the Reading and could go for more but $$$$$

They are flat out fun to run.

Bob

@Carpetrainman - Thanks for the thought on my travels.  I inspected the car, by the way I said a 1954 but the manufacturer claims its a 1953, so I apologize for that mistake.  The marking on the bottom of the car reads..."Welly" No 42367 made in China, 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air.  The car is a convertible although it is modeled with the top up.  "Welly" is obviously the name of the maker as the name is in stylized letters and appears as a logo.  Sorry but I don't remember the source of where I got it but my standard mode of operation is to search the offerings in the two main drug stores, Walgreens and CVS.

@leapinlarry- Thanks for the compliment...I really like that scale GG1, I have a Tuscan 5-stripe but its the normal Lionel foreshortened 0 gauge and it sure looks short compared to yours.  What is that US Army thing?  Never saw one of those before.

Best Wishes everyone, have a great weekend.

Don