Front End Friday

Mark - thanks for the compliment on my collection.  It is haphazard, I only purchased what I liked over the years with little thought to any structure.  So I have an "assembly" of prewar and postwar Lionel, prewar Flyer, prewar and postwar Marx, prewar and postwar Hornby and French Hornby and a scattering of UK / Japan  tin plate even some floor trains.  As you can imagine with such a broad range of trains, I have a complete set of NOTHING!  But after starting in 1979 and to today, I am still having fun!!

I really liked that switcher of yours Mark, the C&O (B&O) are favorite Railroads of mine as we lived in Ohio for about 20 years and in Maryland just outside Baltimore for about 10 more.  I happen to think that the Lionel NW-2 is a great loco and after all these years I still do not have ONE!   I have that one on my "acquire list".

Again thanks for your comment

Don

Happy Front End Friday. Keeping with the C&O Switcher theme!

Happy front end Friday everyone!  Running some Lionel PW today.  Here is a Lionel 726RR against some fall foliage.  Have a great weekend everyone.

Have a Frisco Front End Friday:

Looking to get home and relax after a late night at work

Late at night, in a hotel room in NJ on a work trip.  I planned my FEF pictures last week so here they are.  A little different.  Speeders, Lionel Trolley and Train Runner, a Budd stop.

FEF!!! How quickly it comes around !

Today??? .... a 4 Volt Bing loco from around 1924

A late front end Friday addition. This is a Lionel Western Pacific F7 #918-D, a model of one of the last four WP F7's retired from service and donated to museums.

The real 918-D still runs excursions in Niles Canyon California, operated by the Pacific Locomotive Association (PLA). The other 3 WP F7's are in museums around Northern California.  Note that the model has the large WESTERN PACIFIC logo that was used when it pulled passenger trains. The paint job on the real 918-D has the smaller WP logo when it was relegated to freight trains. Another difference is the truck color. The model has silver trucks, but the current 918-D has black trucks, they may have been silver earlier in its life.

A link to a photo of the real #918 on the Niles Canyon Railway website is below.

Western Pacific #918D | Niles Canyon Railway (ncry.org)

Also, while you're on the ncry website, check out the restoration projects on Southern Pacific #1744 2-6-0 and SP #9010 Krauss Maffei diesel Hydraulic locomotive.

The other 3 F7's of the last 4 can be found at these museums.

#917 (operational) and #921 (not sure if it's in operating condition) are at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA. This museum is just a few miles from the Williams Loop and the Keddie Y just before entering the Feather River Canyon to the west*.

*Side Note: The Keddie Y is owned by Union Pacific, but BNSF has trackage rights for trains coming out of Klamath Falls, Oregon heading for southern California using the western Y. UP trains generally come from Salt Lake City and use the eastern Y into the Feather River Canyon.

#913 resides and is in operating condition at the California Railroad Museum in Sacramento.

Happy Friday!

Front End Friday.....BNSF SD70MAC #9718 breaks thru the morning light hauling the coal to market.

Please check out my new video highlighting this locomotive and consist. Thanks.

Enjoy your weekend.

Donald

From my 2015 Christmas Layout

- walt

Classic Postwar Lionel 2343 Santa Fe AA set blowing on through a tunnel.

Here is my contribution to front end Friday. Love Lionel's F3 And I get a kick out of repairing damaged units.

Happy FEF!

A Pennsy confab.....

(L-R) Lionel PWC B6, K-line Boxcab, MTH FM H10-44, K-line A5.

Bob

Happy fef! New to me LTI NYC mohawk! Took the day off,got up early and did a little tlc on her.

Happy FeF from the subway. We're heading to Queens today -

So here are the front ends of my NYC diesel fleet.

Note the GPs and the FM are orientated correctly, long hood forward.

@Don McErlean posted:

Mark - thanks for the compliment on my collection.  It is haphazard, I only purchased what I liked over the years with little thought to any structure.  So I have an "assembly" of prewar and postwar Lionel, prewar Flyer, prewar and postwar Marx, prewar and postwar Hornby and French Hornby and a scattering of UK / Japan  tin plate even some floor trains.  As you can imagine with such a broad range of trains, I have a complete set of NOTHING!  But after starting in 1979 and to today, I am still having fun!!

I really liked that switcher of yours Mark, the C&O (B&O) are favorite Railroads of mine as we lived in Ohio for about 20 years and in Maryland just outside Baltimore for about 10 more.  I happen to think that the Lionel NW-2 is a great loco and after all these years I still do not have ONE!   I have that one on my "acquire list".

Again thanks for your comment

Don

Well, I just bought that on ebay about 2 weeks ago gave her a good degreasing and cleaning, rebuilt the e unit and runs like a champ, so like you it took about 30 years, God Speed Don

Have a good Front end all,

Here is my Front End Friday offering. Waiting clearance for the signals to clear, two New Haven streamlined I-5's each hauling a fast passenger train while a New Haven L1-a Mountain type and an O&W F3 A&B unit set are sporting freight cars. Most likely the passenger trains will get clearance first.

here are some front ends, for those that haven't already seen these.