Front End Friday

It’s another FEF…have a great one! 🚂😉😺

Sunrise Coop in South Charleston.

Front & Back Ends Friday.

Morning, all.

Here is the front end of a RailKing H10-44.  Like other RK scale I have, it has pretty good detail, runs well,  and a great price.

FEF.... Two faces only a Mother could love (or a big steam fan).....

Donald

Have a great Friday all!  PW Turbine and a couple joes robbing the joint.

The CN mountain steamer rounds the bend....!

Well I have to agree with "Fatman" some additional tinplate might be in order!  So here are 4 in that vein:

Lionel #248 electric box cab from 1927

Marx Baltimore and Ohio, #62, F-3 from 1953-54

An unnumbered American Flyer, type XX sheet metal loco (2-4-0 originally) with a whistle mounted in the back of the cab.  Uncatalogued 1935.  Yes this fellow has had his share of play time and his finish shows it! 

Not a F.E.F. view but here is the whistle mounted in the cab.  Picture not too good but its the housing is the large block of metal in the foreground.   Since this is the only example I am aware of with this design feature, it must not have worked too well.  This one is unfortunately non-functional.

A Hornby type 20, available from 1954 to 1968  in the same livery (one of the very last official offerings of Hornby in 0 gauge)

Well Happy Friday everyone...have a great weekend.

Best Wishes

Don

Happy FEF!

WM 196 waiting for a green signal......

Marx 999 coming into view slowing down to look at the vintage trucks parked alongside the track.

MTH Rail King EMD F series ABA in B&O livery with Proto Sound 2.

MTH Mark Twain Zephyr passing a Marx WP passenger outfit.

Steve

Friday already?! My NYC 4-6-2 by MTH takes on water.  Have a great weekend everyone.

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

Y6b mallet front end.

Train Master and Y6b mallet front ends.

Front end of an A5.

I only found this interesting thread today so I'm REALLY LATE to the game.

Since I only have a Christmas Layout each year obviously all of my picx are older ones.  But I have a few that I can spread out of the weeks ahead.

Start with 3 really old ones. one from 1998 and the other 2 from 1999

this one is 1998 and shows an MTH Railkind F3

- walt

1999

2 mth RAILKING F3s

@coach joe posted:

Ken, the AB6 looks great.  Nice work.

John great work on the oil tender.

Thank you!!!

Yay! Another Front End Friday!

Our Southern Pacific H12-44 (FM diesel) pulling a short freight train.

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy FEF.

Johan, those are a couple of handsome BAR diesels heading up that train.  Is that barn scratch built?

Happy FEF

Steve

@coach joe posted:

Johan, those are a couple of handsome BAR diesels heading up that train.  Is that barn scratch built?

Joe,

The barn is a 3D print and is externally finished, I will turn on the lighting later and finish the interior. It is very difficult to find high-quality Bangor & Aroostook locomotives & cars ready, except for the State of Maine cars. I currently have 4 BAR locomotives, but in the future there will be at least NW2, DEY-2, E7 and a few F3.

Johan

Johan, will you be building those locos or re-painting existing?