Front End Friday

Happy FEF!

More Santa Fe

Have a great FEF…🚂😉😺

Here's a front end from the past - before a conductor decided to occupy the front cab -

Here are a couple I took this morning. A little dark the sun was on the backside.

Well hello everyone...its F.E.F. again, the end the first week of fall?  @3rail- Great Amtrak loco.  One question, when you say you posted a new video...where do you post it?  @tnkMarx- a beautiful B&O switcher, what make is that?  I see a Lionel pre-war tanker in the background.  @Sitka - a "KLINE" big boy, well that's neat, never knew that KLINE made such an engine...really neat. @GG1 4877 - "what a nose" your right who doesn't love that one!  @walt rapp - great pictures of your former layouts...love the "Heinz Pickle Car".

OK for me today, I am taking my inspiration from Fatman and his Hornby Silver Link.  In my case, its a Brimtoy, "Silver Streak" also from the time of the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary, 1935.  Here from 1936 was the Brimtoy version of those famous celebratory trains in real life.

I do not have the full set as does Fatman nor do I even have the silver #2509 tender, but here is the "front end Friday" view of the locomotive.

Here are some side views , showing the name ..."Silver Streak"

Best wishes everyone.  Hope you have a great weekend

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well hello everyone...its F.E.F. again, the end the first week of fall?  @3rail- Great Amtrak loco.  One question, when you say you posted a new video...where do you post it?

All of videos and pictures are posted in the same folder as “front end Friday”. In “miscellaneous” and “pictures, videos”. Hope that helps.

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well hello everyone...its F.E.F. again, the end the first week of fall?  @3rail- Great Amtrak loco.  One question, when you say you posted a new video...where do you post it?  @tnkMarx- a beautiful B&O switcher, what make is that?  I see a Lionel pre-war tanker in the background.  @Sitka - a "KLINE" big boy, well that's neat, never knew that KLINE made such an engine...really neat. @GG1 4877 - "what a nose" your right who doesn't love that one!  @walt rapp - great pictures of your former layouts...love the "Heinz Pickle Car".

OK for me today, I am taking my inspiration from Fatman and his Hornby Silver Link.  In my case, its a Brimtoy, "Silver Streak" also from the time of the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary, 1935.  Here from 1936 was the Brimtoy version of those famous celebratory trains in real life.

I do not have the full set as does Fatman nor do I even have the silver #2509 tender, but here is the "front end Friday" view of the locomotive.

Here are some side views , showing the name ..."Silver Streak"

Best wishes everyone.  Hope you have a great weekend

Don

Don-

The S2 switcher is a Lionel.

The tank car in the background is actually Marx.

Happy FEF. Amtrak`s Downeaster in Portland bound for Boston.

Happy FEF. Here are some of my favorite F units.

Happy FEF everyone from the Hoosier Line!

Strap, does your 4 train go underground just below Yankee Stadium like the real one in Da Bronx?

Well fellows, getting yard work caught up, having a garage sale for the wife Saturday the 10th, keeps one really busy, but, there’s a lot of beautiful locomotives and diesels pictured here this fine Friday. Happy Railroading Everyone

@Tom Morris posted:

Happy FEF. Here are some of my favorite F units.

Gotta love all those Covered Wagons! F Series are my favs in any railroad!

@coach joe posted:

Strap, does your 4 train go underground just below Yankee Stadium like the real one in Da Bronx?

Not yet, Coach. However, construction of that route is set to begin after retirement. I’ve always wanted to connect my elevated and subway lines. In the meantime, that 4 train is strangely running around on a mysterious elevated line somewhere in Queens.

Boy, Ben (BlueLineC4) must be at the controls of that 4 if it's in Queens.

Front of back end on this FEF.

OROBR ( Germany ) floor train ....

And a BIC cigarette lighter for scale

However being more traditional ...

A Pre-war 3501 Distler clockwork loco and tender ( Germany again)

Happy FEF !

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   I snapped these last weekend while at the B&O Museum in Baltimore.