Front End Friday

It's FEF at the Cherokee yard roundhouse in Tulsa, OK.

The front end of the last one.

Ron

Front end of a white R12 and a red R33 at the station  this Friday AM -

Happy FEF.

@DG posted:

Happy FEF

Two MTH GP35 engines - BN GP35 is a custom run from Berwyn Trains and WP GP35 is a custom run from MrMuffins Trains.

Realy sharp sir.

I guess this is a classic case of  " Dudley Do Right " 

How do you get these custom runs Dudley ?

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy FEF.

ON THE FORUM AGAIN .

And then back to REALITY with Johan.     NICE.

@Dallas Joseph - ever so often, I do things RIGHT - in this case, I am very pleased with these engines.

Both Berwyn Trains and McMuffins Trains have websites where they list all of the custom runs they have setup with MTH. You can preorder or buy the item if they already have them in stock from their website. There are several other dealers here on the forum that offer some really nice items, almost too many to mention because I have bought items from many of them and don't want to do WRONG and forget to mention them. On the MTH website, you can use the Product Locator and find all of the custom runs for 2022 and 2023.

Happy FEF!

For anyone who follows SWSat!

We've got the front of the front.....

AND...the back of the front.......

Now I gotta figure out my SWSat post for tomorrow......

so many post.....so little time............ I'm Late! I'm Late!

Bob

Plows are waiting for the call for the upstate NY snowstorm.  Have a good FeF all!

@Dallas Joseph posted:

ON THE FORUM AGAIN .

And then back to REALITY with Johan.     NICE.

Dallas,

Thank you very much.🤝

Johan

Williams Baldwin Sharks, A-B-A.

, , , and for something completely different:

On my immaculate workbench: a disassembled Menards '48 Ford police van, being temporarily powered by a buck converter to display the blown headlight LEDs, the replacements for which are hopefully on a "slow boat" somewhere . . . *sigh*

HAPPY first  FEF for March.

Pair of RKs.      B&P  and  Pennsy

My front-end Friday pictures.

New Haven C liner

Wow, it’s Front End Friday and all I can say is, we had electrical outages, 79 mile an hour winds, trees down, houses hit by trees, rubbish blowing everywhere, street light signals blinking, traffic at a crawl, unbelievable weather… Good news, we are safe. Great pictures everyone. Happy Railroading Everyone

Gee, leapinlarry, after reading the first part of your post, I thought we were about to see "electrical outages, 79 mile an hour winds, trees down, houses hit by trees, rubbish blowing everywhere, street light signals blinking, traffic at a crawl, unbelievable weather… ", all on your layout. I'm glad to see all that weather action had so little impact on your tiny community!

FWIW, all I can offer to counter your weather woes is the beginnings of a thunderstorm:

[BTW, since I shot the video, I have since added voice activation that turns off the main lights and initiates the storm sequence, and reverse the process to shut down the storm and restore the lights.]

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

Here's a FeF late night submission.

Front end of Lionel Western Pacific EMD F7 #918-D from ground level on my Paradise, CA layout.

Here's a link to a photo of the real thing on the Niles Canyon Railway (ncry.com). I've had the privilege of riding on a train pulled by 918-D on Niles Canyon Railway in all it's orange glory.

https://www.ncry.org/about/col...estern-pacific-918d/

Notice the font size on the real 918-D compared to the Lionel model. From the information I was able to find online the large font Lionel used was from when 918-D pulled the California Zephyr. The font was changed to a smaller font when 918-D was switched to freight duty. I'm sure you can see there other differences for yourself.

I've had the Lionel WP F7 ABA set for about 3 years and just noticed the paragraph in the users guide about the sounds for this model. The Lionel Railsounds were recorded from the real WP 918-D in Niles Canyon. Here's a photo of the Lionel Users guide on page 2 thanking the NCRY, The Pacific Locomotive Association, and Five Chimes Consultants for the recording.

Here's the Lionel model engine and horn sounds.

Happy Friday and a grand weekend to you all.