@Walt Rapp, that’s a beautiful switcher Pittsburgh Brewery, and it looks like your layout was a fun to run model railroad, thanks for posting. Pittsburgh is definitely a railroad city. Happy FEF fellows and have a fun weekend. Happy Railroading Everyone 
Lionel Rock Island FT #99.
Happy FEF !
Today something cheap and cheerful ....
A Brimtoy ( UK) Royal Scot loco ... very cheap lightweight mechanism , but GLORIOUS lithography. I think they subscribed to the " Well we have to make a litho for it , why not make it a good one " field of view ... awfully glad they did ! Its one of a series of 3 similar units with differing liveries and small differences The Royal Scot and Britannia post war and George V pre-war
Edit ( lol ... I forgot I HAD the George as well ... ffs too many trainses! )
Here are my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!
Shay front end. 
Diamond CocaCola truck. 
Aaron Judge is driving the train this week!
Patrick, the Shay caught me off guard at first glance I thought it was 1:1 scale.
Portland Terminal Switcher - Happy FEF ......
@Fatman posted:However us Aussie's ( Fred is Dutch btw) are a little less serious with our weekend fun ....
I can't remember seeing a train video that was this much FUN . Beautiful Fatman. Thank you very much for sharing . 
Wow everyone, what a great display of pictures. @walt rapp- Pitsburgh Brewing Company switcher, rare at 1/500 for sure @leapinlarry - Larry your layout and trains are super, love the pictures and the "Lionel" rock in the mountain side @RSJB18 - Sperry speeder, neat and hope you have great luck running it @Dave Ripp - RI FT is really neat @Fatman- Brimtoy really went all out on the litho, alas I only have the Britannia but I keep looking for the other two. Patrick - great pictures, the Shay looks very realistic in the setting @Strap Hanger - great NY Yankee subway scene - now its ON TO 63! @Richie C.- neat looking switcher
Well guys, you all are often posting pictures of your beautiful (and large) engines while I seem to be stuck in the little engine line. So I decided to pull out an engine I got in 1991 when we were living in a house with a huge basement and I was dreaming of a big layout...well you know how that goes, The Navy decided we really needed to live in Washington D.C. with no basement!
So I have this beautiful Lionel #6-18007 Southern Pacific GS 4 and I have not been able to run it much since. Its just too big for my current little layout. This loco was at the front edge of Lionel's quest to add more and more elaborate features to its locomotives, just ahead of things like "Legacy". It does have "Rail Sounds" activated by a button that connects to the track and steam through the steam chest as well as the stack. Here are the features listed , too much to type.
Here is the F.E.F. view
The front quarter with the "Daylight" skirts. I actually have a set of matching "Daylight" passenger cars but attaching them would make a train so long, it would go around my layout without moving. 
The full side view, showing the tender where all the electronics are kept. It attaches to the engine via a wire tether fitted with an RCA plug that plugs into the engine just below the cab.
And yes after 31 years she still does run beautifully, although I have to move "buildings" in order for her to get around my layout's tight clearances. Some day...maybe larger radii and more room...who knows.
Best wishes everyone.
Don
PW #2018 Making the rounds have a good F.E.F all!
Here's the front end of my 2012 Lionel Legacy GP9, which arrived this week.
Happy FEF.
@jay jay posted:NYC FEF #2344 F3 at the Skyline Middletown Depot.
Nice nostalgic view. Are they haulin' the 20th Century? And big thumbs up 
for the IRM! I've been there as I'm from the Chicago area.
@Don McErlean posted:Well guys, you all are often posting pictures of your beautiful (and large) engines while I seem to be stuck in the little engine line. So I decided to pull out an engine I got in 1991 when we were living in a house with a huge basement and I was dreaming of a big layout...well you know how that goes, Here is the F.E.F.
And yes after 31 years she still does run beautifully, although I have to move "buildings" in order for her to get around my layout's tight clearances. Some day...maybe larger radii and more room...who knows.
Best wishes everyone.
Don
Nice Don.
Any chance you could get to a club layout to run your beauty ?
@Strap Hanger posted:Aaron Judge is driving the train this week!
Very nice! I'd like to see a Cubs 6000 series. If only they would start winning again...
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