Front End Friday

@Don McErlean, Don, you are welcome, the GG1 is VisionLine, the Army thing, (ha ha ha) is a TMCC TrackMobile, being that I live 10 minutes from Fort Campbell. This hobby is so much fun, what a day…. Happy Railroading Everyone

Hi everyone,

Just received this Lionel PA1 AA set from Stephen (Cincytrains).  Great condition and video will be up on WPF soon.

@RSJB18 posted:

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

They are flat out fun to run.

Bob

Bob, it’s the Lehigh Valley. It’s just so darn cute and well made. I’m very impressed with it being a LC+.

Gene

I haven't posted a photo of my LionMaster Legacy Big Boy for a long time, so here she is FeF. A member posted a new purchase of a later model than mine in "Buy Anything Cool Lately", and inspired me to get mine out and put on the layout. My version is from the 2008 catalog.

Happy Friday everyone!

@Genemed posted:

Bob, it’s the Lehigh Valley. It’s just so darn cute and well made. I’m very impressed with it being a LC+.

Gene

Me too. I did GRJ's mod to make mine 2 chuff's/ rev and it sounds much better.

I have the Reading, but Lehigh and New Haven almost went home with me too.....

@RSJB18 posted:

Me too. I did GRJ's mod to make mine 2 chuff's/ rev and it sounds much better.

I have the Reading, but Lehigh and New Haven almost went home with me too.....

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll look for the post from GRJ and get to it at some point also.

Gene

Picked this up from Grzyboski’s yesterday… I just couldn’t resist preordering one of these. I’ve wanted one for years, but, as a Legacy/TMCC runner, had to wait for Lionel to make one. They did a great job!!!

@CAPPilot posted:

Hi everyone,

Just received this Lionel PA1 AA set from Stephen (Cincytrains).  Great condition and video will be up on WPF soon.

The PAs certainly wear that PRR paint well don't they?

@Genemed posted:

Thanks for the heads up. I’ll look for the post from GRJ and get to it at some point also.

Gene

Here you go Gene. I had it saved in my bookmarks.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...1#157265374013735381

@RSJB18 posted:

Here you go Gene. I had it saved in my bookmarks.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...1#157265374013735381

Thank you Bob.

A good friend, who does beautiful digital renderings of his photos, recently visited my layout.  He's also a devoted fan/modeler of the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railroad.  He presented me with a couple of his prints of DMIRR’s #332.  This is the locomotive I have attempted to model by reworking an MTH New York Central consolidation.

His gift inspired me to add some additions to #1121.  I kept the original cab number as I wanted to preserve the lighted number boards of the original model.   

The newly added white front railing and the two grab irons are made from S&K .020 brass rod.    

I thought it fitting to share this new look as part of Front End Friday in spite of it being Saturday.  

The new look!

Happy weekend everyone!

Cheers, Dave

@darlander posted:

A good friend, who does beautiful digital renderings of his photos, recently visited my layout.  He's also a devoted fan/modeler of the Duluth Missabe and Iron Range Railroad.  He presented me with a couple of his prints of DMIRR’s #332.  This is the locomotive I have attempted to model by reworking an MTH New York Central consolidation.

His gift inspired me to add some additions to #1121.  I kept the original cab number as I wanted to preserve the lighted number boards of the original model.   

The newly added white front railing and the two grab irons are made from S&K .020 brass rod.    

I thought it fitting to share this new look as part of Front End Friday.  

The new look!

Happy weekend everyone!

Cheers, Dave

Great Job Dave! It is nice that you are able to make it the way it once was!

@mike g. posted:

Great Job Dave! It is nice that you are able to make it the way it once was!

Thanks Mike.   My layout is basically finished except for weathering so it is nice to discover little projects to keep me involved and interested! 

Cheers, Dave

Happy Front End Friday everyone! This week on my layout, my New Haven Railking Rectifier is moving freight on the mainline.

Check out the video!

This week from me will be Front End F Unit Friday.

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

The Pennsylvania Railroad built 31 G-5s 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler steam locomotives for its subsidiary, the Long Island Rail Road. MTH delivered a model of LIRR G-5s #21 (20-3068-1) in December 2001 with PS2. The PRR built #21 in 1924. It was retired from the LIRR in 1955. At a weight of 237,000 pounds and tractive effort of 41,330 pounds, the G-5s was the heaviest and most powerful Ten Wheeler ever built.

MELGAR

Happy FEF everyone. Here's a front end shot of my old Lionel Union Pacific F3, and a photo below of the Lionel F7 that replaced it.

Well F.E.F. fans, here is a "old warrior" for you today.  Its the Lionel Lines #520 electric box cab locomotive from 1956-1957.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well F.E.F. fans, here is a "old warrior" for you today.  Its the Lionel Lines #520 electric box cab locomotive from 1956-1957.

Best Wishes

Don

Well, now Don. That's an interesting one. 😉

Railking

K-Lionel

My meager submission for this week.  A PRR K4, a prewar face version at that, while an Amtrak FL9 hides in the background.  Sure that makes sense!!

@GG1 4877 posted:

My meager submission for this week.  A PRR K4, a prewar face version at that, while an Amtrak FL9 hides in the background.  Sure that makes sense!!

@GG1 4877

Jonathan:

There is nothing meager about PRR steam!!!!!! Yours looks to be a GREAT model.

@Randy Harrison posted:

@GG1 4877

Jonathan:

There is nothing meager about PRR steam!!!!!! Yours looks to be a GREAT model.

Thanks Randy!  That was my Williams one.  For a more era appropriate grouping, here are a few more K4s with a few EMD invaders. All these locomotives are Sunset.

I offer 2 front ends for this Friday, a MTH, Rail King, PRR K-4s and a Lionel, MPC Era, Jersey Central, Blue Comet

Happy FeF!  Here’s an R12 on the #1 line riding the el circa 1978. Some MTA genius that year thought painting over subway car  graffiti with white paint would discourage such conduct, not realizing that they were giving them a perfect white canvas to write upon. Genius move. -

Happy FEF!

A new entry this week. MTH Premier RS-27 w/PS-1 (QSI). Engine lights up but doesn't run. The trucks are in a bad way. She's back in the shops for an overhaul. Sharp looking ALCO tho.....

@Yellowstone Special - Vern thanks for the comment. #520 was an interesting loco, only led one set outfit # 1542 in 1956, a very low end 0-27 set.  Many years later however, she did give up her body to become, once chrome plated and fitted with two anti-aircraft guns on top, the caboose to the L.A.S.E.R. set !!

Don

B&A #53 rumbles past the station on my old layout. Now that i am focusing on the New Haven i'll have to either re letter this or find it a new home.

Latest MTH Railking release - SP C-630

@Don McErlean posted:

@Yellowstone Special - Vern thanks for the comment. #520 was an interesting loco, only led one set outfit # 1542 in 1956, a very low end 0-27 set.  Many years later however, she did give up her body to become, once chrome plated and fitted with two anti-aircraft guns on top, the caboose to the L.A.S.E.R. set !!

Don

An intriguing transformation it had. Thanks for its background.

Happy Front End Friday Everyone, today, page 166, a super interesting thread with all sorts of front ends of all kind’s pictured… From bullet nose steamers, to beautiful cars and trucks, buildings and hi rise structures, all a Wow…. Happy Railroading Everyone

Lionel Ann Arbor FA-2 AA.

Have a Great FeF all! Enjoy the start of your weekend

Thomas the Tank Engine with a typical English smokebox front plus lettering and a name plate.

The Twentieth Century Limited...ABA E7's on the front end on a cold Upstate New York afternoon. Happy FEF!

USAX Transportation Corp F7

Steve

Happy FEF!

GP10 at the L&M RR tourist line.  The NKP GP30 was currently being used.

we drive through Lebanon 1-2 times a month for soccer & swimming events.

Have a great Friday!

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

  Washington Terminal RS 1 rounds the bend ... Landrover pickup truck makes its' way across the tracks, and a front end of a transit bus in the background.  

Front end of a B&O GP9 as the locomotive is being serviced by the engine service crew.

Happy FeF! Here are a couple of front ends from the subway yard -