Front End Friday

Hi Forum members, I love the front end Friday thread and today from Busan Korea is a few pictures of the Beach Train (Mipo) that we rode today for fun. It’s a short train, possibly an electric powered train. It had just a few cars, but they were full of people of all Nationalities. I selected this thread because it’s Front End Friday….Happy Railroading Everyone

Alexander GG1, 1935 plus a Baldwin GG1 same time period. Forty pounds of FEF.

Happy Friday everyone enjoy your weekend.

My front-end for this Friday is MTH 20-21458-1, a Premier model of Maine Central F3 #686.

MELGAR

Happy FeF!  Here is an R1 pulling out of the North side subway  yard while an R40 waits in the background -

Happy FEF!

Bob

FEF!

My first locomotive.

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

Happy FEF!

Following the lead of pennsyfan-- My first locomotive, a 1946 Lionel 671 PRR steam turbine by Lionel

AND...making "bookends",  my last locomotive a Lionel #8770 EMD NW2 Switcher - purchased September 2023

So there you are ...77 years of Lionel acquisition (Note I can't say I purchased the one in 1946 I was just about 3 years old so I guess its Mom and Dad that "purchased" it...but I got to run it ... a little! )

Best Wishes, hope your weekend is great.

Don

Mt first locomotive ... Lionel 2065 Hudson ... brought to me by Santa Clause 1957.  She still runs great!

Have a good FeF all!

my first bought PW Lionel 2018 from my paper route.

Happy Friday to all!

SOUTHERN PACIFIC LEGACY 2-6-0 #1760

Lionel, NYC Berkshire.

This week on the layout, I am running some New Haven front ends. First, a fanciful model, MTH's "Crusader" in black and silver New Haven livery.

More prototypically, I am also running this Alco PA set in McGinnis colors.

Here's the video of both engines running. Happy Front End Friday!

Front-end photos/videos show my MTH Premier model (20-20373-1) of Providence & Worcester Railroad GP38 #2007 delivered in 2014 at MSRP $439.95. Like all my MTH diesels with PS3, it is very smooth at low speeds – shown running conventionally at 12 scale miles-per-hour in the videos.

MELGAR

MTH, 1995, traditional size, conventional, purple box, made in Korea, before the split into Premier and Railking product lines.

Happy FEF

MTH Proto 1 PRR T-1

Happy FEF!

Happy FEF!

Christmas is coming.......

Bob

Happy FeF! Here’s the front end of an R12  about to leave the elevated station -

Happy FEF. Boston & Maine SW-9 #1223 and Maine Central SW-9 #334 meet somewhere in Maine.

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy FEF. Boston & Maine SW-9 #1223 and Maine Central SW-9 #334 meet somewhere in Maine.

Welcome back, been awhile since you posted those great shots. God Speed! Mark

Have a good FeF all! Thanks to all our Veterans for serving are Great Country God Speed!

Its a cold and rainy day here in central Texas today so I felt like digging through my photo's for a few shots of some earlier trains than my normal post war / MPC Lionel.  This is just for fun and for a little something different

First from early American Flyer (Chicago Flyer) this is a "Hummer" locomotive and dates to about 1924 iaw the green tender.  The loco might date as early as 1922 with a black tender and tenders are easily switched over time so its from 1922-24 in that time period.  Clockwork with a fixed key on the loco.    Its just about a century old and still works ok.  In terms of the "crew talk" module, its amazing...put your head near the track and whisper what you want and it will "say" anything your imagination requires.

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Here is a Hafner 1010 locomotive, also clockwork as you can see the key.  Hafner never made anything but clockwork locomotives, Mr. Hafner believed electric trains were too expensive to be toys.  The 1010 was made from 1938 thru the 1940's and 1950's both pre and post war in a wide variety of colors and trims.

This is a Japanese tin toy from the 1950's.  It is by the manufacturer "Alps" and was battery powered.  A single "D" cell in the boiler took care of the power.  Its modeled after a NYC 0-4-0 Tank type switcher but whether or not the NYC had any locomotives like this is unknown to me.

Well that's it for me today,  Enjoy your weekend and I hope it doesn't rain all weekend where you are (for me, not much hope).

Best Wishes

Don

Don,    I miuch prefer your version of crew talk!

ECI

@Sitka posted:

Welcome back, been awhile since you posted those great shots. God Speed! Mark

Mark,

Thank you. Its nice to be back again. The summer was busy with the museum railway.

Johan

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

Not new for this Friday, but new to this thread. First up, front end of my Sunset Train Master H24-66.

What is new is the detail parts I just received to enhance the model.  Radio receiver for the short hood (in PRR's case not the front end) and Pyle National headlight castings to 1) replace the headlight on the long hood and 2) move the headlight up between the number boards on the short hood since I don't think I can salvage the one in the wrong location.  Still missing the exhaust deflector found on the prototype, but I can probably fabricate that myself.

Next, some HO work I did back in the 90's.  Front end of an old "hi-fi" rubber band drive Athearn F7 that I removed the lower headlight from and painted for my favorite CNJ scheme.  Since the rubber bands broke years ago, it is a very free rolling dummy unit.  Not at all prototypical as CNJ's F7s were leased in 1970 from the N&W and never received this paint scheme.  However, the Tenshodo GP7 is much closer the CNJ prototype. Still not perfect as the long hood had the squared off end to house lighting equipment, but when I was in my 20's I was proud of the paint job I did on it.  I did tend to go overboard on the dirt in those days, or did I?

Wow, it’s actually Saturday morning here in Busan, Korea, but Friday evening in the USA, there are so many beautiful fronts of beautiful trains and layouts, and yesterday we visited The Lotte Mall here in Busan, a Giant mall, 6 blocks long, 6 blocks wide , 6 stories high not including the underground basement … No Lionel trains….. But they had a few sets for sale of another brand…Happy Railroading Everyone

Let's not rush things Bob!

Don I don't know that I remember you ever using the word cold along with Central Texas.  I don't doubt it can getcold in that vast expanse but I just don'tremember you ever saying it was.

As Patrick Trumptrain always says, "Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday"! In tribute to Patrick's great photos and stories, and everyone else that posts great front ends in this thread!!! Happy Friday!

Some SP with MOW.

Larry looks like some new perspectives of your layout.  I didn't recognize the first two but I did recognize the siding that sharp Space Force loco is sitting on.

@coach joe-  Hey your right but of course here in Texas, anything below 100 degrees is considered on the "cool" side

@leapinlarry - Wow what a Mall, good thing I don't live there or I would be broke for sure!!  I loved the little train that you rode as well neat experience .  Glad you are having a good time, enjoy your vacation with your wife.  Hey...I never saw that "Space Force" loco before, it must be new.

Best Wishes to All

Don

FEF today.

Railking New Haven EP5 PS2

Happy FEF!

Tiger Shark.....

Have a good FeF! Williams PA-1 NYC

Happy FEF everyone!