Front End Friday

Filled the HiRail coupler pilot gap on my MTH S Scale F7's.

Rusty

Looks like it’s from the factory! Nice work.

Here is my FEF for today. I also posted a video of "The Texas Special" in another post. Please make sure to check that out. Thanks.

Donald

Good morning, FEFers.  Really nice photos of layouts today.

Big engine line up.

Lionel J1a, Lionel T1, 3rd Rail Q1, MTH Q2.

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

Morning FEFers, PW Lionel racing around the bend. HAGD All!

Happy Front End Friday! In this brief video a pair of O scale Penn Central geeps tackle a tank car train. Enjoy!

@Rusty Traque posted:

Filled the HiRail coupler pilot gap on my MTH S Scale F7's.

Rusty

Very nice Rusty

Guys some Beautiful FEF already this morning keep them coming

Hello everyone...its Friday again and a great start to the weekend here in Texas where the weather is sunny and warm - expected to hit near 70 deg today.  My contribution today is..." A Pair of 48's"  One of Lionels most popular engines of the prewar period the little 248. This came in dark green, orange, red, olive green and terra cotta - the last two colors were uncatalogued.  So here are two examples...an Orange / Black from 1927 and Red/Black from 1929.

First the F.E.F. view :  Both engines have one headlight and one pantograph and a brass whistle.

Here is a side view to show you a little more of the body of the engines.  Note...the Orange one has a "star" past...in the late 1980's when we lived in Dayton, the local high rail club sponsored a big layout at the Ohio State Fair (a big deal in Ohio).  If you participated in helping to run the layout, you could bring one of your trains to run.  On a whim, I brought the little orange guy and his 3 matching passenger cars and sent him rushing around the vast (to him) layout.  It was amazing, despite all the beautiful scale and large locomotives that attracted the attention of most of the adults...the "little folks" could not get enough of the little orange train pulled by the humble 248 and they laughed and clapped every time he went past.  It was wonderful to watch.

Happy Friday everyone, have a great weekend!

Don

A-B-A Erie Lackawanna F3’s pulling the Phoebe Snow round a bend near a hobo camp enroute to Scranton.

Good morning, all. I'll drop in a few FEFs here. Happy weekend!

Beautiful pictures fellows and have a great weekend. Happy Railroading Everyone

My Alaska F3

Today's installment.

A classic Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western F3a:

Hello FEFers, here's a locomotive I don't photo much, it's kind of a strange Lionel Legacy engine. It's from the 2010 Vol 2 catalog, and for a Legacy its missing a lot of detail. For instance no side sun visors, and detail is molded in instead of separately applied detail like my other Legacy locomotives from this time period. With that said, it's one of the earlier models where the trucks twist 90 degrees to remove them. That's a nice feature making it really easy to replace rubber tires, that I just performed the other day. It's a nice model and runs great.

Happy Friday!

Bob, that is a beautiful F3, although I’m a little biased toward the Lackawanna. I enjoyed many trips on the Phoebe Snow until it was discontinued. Who made that model?

@Artie-DL&W posted:

Bob, that is a beautiful F3, although I’m a little biased toward the Lackawanna. I enjoyed many trips on the Phoebe Snow until it was discontinued. Who made that model?

That is an Atlas 2 rail model.

Thanks, it’s a beautiful model.