Front End Friday

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

Old, weather beaten and neglected Docksider brings three cars across a bridge.  

Two trucks with different kinds of front ends.

Some shots from the club's permanent layout:

Murf's LIONEL SF SD40:

Ed2's Williams SRR ABA:

Rick's LIONEL Big Boy:

George's Williams C&O E-7:

Happy Front End Friday!!!

Heading a mixed train that my mother-in-law said they used to call a “hog and human” (back in Colorado in the 1920’s) is a Western Pacific SW 1. We made it from a Lionel NW 2 Santa Fe 623 switcher  

Rusty

FEF…have a great one! 🚂😉😺

I'll sneak in a picture this FeF I took probably 1975 or 76 in Toledo, OH.  Notice Alco trucks.

Well F.E.F. fans, great steam and diesels.  CAPPilot the detail on that PRR H-6 is really superb!  Rusty, PRRon, CAPPilot the pictures of the Champion were really great, what a beautiful locomotive.  Well today, I thought I might shift up things a little and switch to electric propulsion and "trolley's".  I was born in New Jersey, Bergen County, and lived there until I was 21 so I have a little soft spot for "Jersey"...so here is a Lionel Corp interpretation of a Bergen County Trolley.  Note...I actually do remember at about age 5-6 (1949-1950) actually riding on the trolley's in Bloomfield NJ where we lived until the NJ Turnpike took our house!  They were gone not long after that.

So here is the Front End Friday view of my Bergen County trolley.

The massive GP-7 and her local train waits in the hole for the "interurban" to go by !

Stopping at the station for a few commuters to catch a ride downtown.

Best wishes for a great weekend.  Happy Friday

Don

Happy FEF.

Your background photo of the lake is one of my most favorite images here on the Forum! SO realistic and enhances the illusion of a 'real' scene..

Have a Good Friday all !

Well, I certainly can't compete with some of the front ends shown here, complete with background scenery, but I am very partial to both front ends of these nicely finished engines, "Traveller" and "Twenty Grand" (racehorse names) that comprise a recent Legacy Frisco A-A set:

SIRT 489 was the very last locomotive built for the B&O New York Terminal subsidiary in 1945.

The model is a Custom Brass import from the 1970's, which has a few detail modifications to better follow the prototype.

In 1957 the prototype was renumbered 9033 in a B&O system wide renumbering. It left Staten Island in the early 1960's to work at other B&O locations, the last one being at East St. Louis IL. Retired in January 1979, the 9033 was sold to the Precision National Corp. of Mt Vernon IL in April of that year.

S. Islander 

Happy FEF everyone!

3 variations of Marx H0 New Haven switchers.

Steve

Happy FEF!

Great pix and stories again this week.

Here's my Santa Fe F3 showing of her new lights.

Rarely seen road name and one of my favorites, Bangor & Aroostook - these HO geeps were spotted at a train show in Easly SC a few weeks back.

@c.sam posted:

Your background photo of the lake is one of my most favorite images here on the Forum! SO realistic and enhances the illusion of a 'real' scene..

c.sam

C.SAM

Thank you. Nice to hear that you like the lake landscape, the water landscape will continue to be known as long as the modules progress.

Johan

The pride of my fleet, #35 4-6-0.

Andy

Here's FeF with my new 4 RR Track crossing a SP SW8 I've posted before.