Front End Friday

Better late than never. Happy FeF!

Better late than not at all. 😳😉  Two 3 rail beauties for the price of one 😬    Left MTH SP with fixed pilot, right 3rd Rail Cotton Belt  

Cheers 😜

Happy FeF!  Here is the front end of an R-33 Worlds Fair train passing the station along with other assorted subway front ends.  Here's to a great weekend!

Happy FEF!

Lot's of talk this week about Menard's latest beta engine. This is a Beta 1.

(Honorable mention to the 2 ALCO's up on the shelf too)

Bob

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

Head end brakeman Pip Feldman rides the front deck of B&O SW9 as it pushes  a block of cars ( not shown )

Good afternoon, FEFers.  Here are my fronts ends for today:

Okay, these are technically the 'A' end of these freight cars (no hand brakes which are on the 'B' end).  Just a little expansion of the definition of "front".

This is the front end of New York Central P-2b electric motor #223 which hauled commuter trains between Grand Central Terminal in New York City and Croton-Harmon along the Hudson River. The model is by MTH Premier with PS1.

MELGAR

@Strap Hanger- I know this isn't strictly "railroad" stuff, but your posting of the "Worlds Fair Train" brought back some very pleasant memories for me.  My future wife (of 57 years) and I took that train when we were just 18 (1962 or 63) into the NY worlds fair.  It was a big deal at the time, perhaps our first real un-escorted trip any distance from our home and parents in NJ.  In fact in those days the drinking age in NY was 18 so I think we might have even had a drink at lunch!! It was a memory that stayed with us the rest of our lives.

Well today, I have brought out one of my older diesels, the Marx NH E-7  offered for quite a bit of time, 1960-1974.  Mine is an AB set, although I have only pictured the A unit today.  Sort of targeting those waning days of the end of passenger runs, this powerful diesel only has to pull one coach today just filling out the schedule.

Here is the classic F.E.F. perspective.  Handsome as these E7 plastic diesels were in general, they really didn't have much detail added to the basic casting.  I realized after I took the picture that I really have to do something with that terrible screw head to disguise it better.  These were single motor with the power going to the rear trucks but they pulled quite well.

Another "front end" picture showing a little more of the rest of the locomotive.

Finally here is the side view so you can see the entire A unit.  Again, cast in details are pretty good and reasonably authentic.  IAW the Trains "Guide to North American Diesel Locomotives", pg 67 the position of the vents seems accurate and the side mounted number boards would be correct for E-7's built before 1947.  Unfortunately, IAW the same book, the New Haven was an ALCO road and EMD played only a small part in their line up and alas they had no EMD cab units.

So there you are F.E.F. fans, a diesel by Marx that would have been very handsome but IRL it didn't exist.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@Strap Hanger- I know this isn't strictly "railroad" stuff, but your posting of the "Worlds Fair Train" brought back some very pleasant memories for me.  My future wife (of 57 years) and I took that train when we were just 18 (1962 or 63) into the NY worlds fair.  It was a big deal at the time, perhaps our first real un-escorted trip any distance from our home and parents in NJ.  In fact in those days the drinking age in NY was 18 so I think we might have even had a drink at lunch!! It was a memory that stayed with us the rest of our lives.

Nice pics and pretty cool story, Don.  You should pick up a set of those MTH Worlds Fair subway cars.  They also have a two car non powered add-on set that would look great by itself on a shelf.  Both can be found on various auction sites or at a forum sponsor. Go for it!

Have a good FEF All!!

@Strap Hanger- I am most definitely  going to take your advice.  My personal connection just demands it! Thank you for your comment.

@Sitka -  Ha!! I bet you didn't proof read your post above.  It reads..."have a goof FEF.. which I believe is a splendid idea. Its trending towards 100 deg here in central Texas and so that is what I am going to do...goof off!  Thank you for your advice.

Sincerely

Don

Here's a couple of front ends. Looks like the fire department is getting a jump on the 4th of July!

Bob, I know one of those AlCos is LIRR, is the other Santa Fe?  It looks like the ATSF cigar band nose herald.

Mel, weren't the P2s from CUT?

Ron. I started out as an environmental engineer in 1984.  One of the sewage treatment plants I worked on still used gaseous chlorine delivered in those cylinders for final disinfection.  They came in by ruck not by rail.

Don that's a sharp looking product by Marx.

@coach joe- Thank you for the compliment on my Marx Diesel.  They only used it in 6 sets, all freight.  Never made a set of "scale" passenger cars for it as they did for the Santa Fe, NYC, and WP.  Maybe Kline made something suitable?

Don

Early (1995) MTH GG1, traditional size, conventional runner, made in Korea, indestructible.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Early (1995) MTH GG1, traditional size, conventional runner, made in Korea, indestructible.

Great looking model Mark .          Have you ever considered an upgrade ps2/3  ?

@Don McErlean posted:

@Strap Hanger- I am most definitely  going to take your advice.  My personal connection just demands it! Thank you for your comment.

@Sitka -  Ha!! I bet you didn't proof read your post above.  It reads..."have a goof FEF.. which I believe is a splendid idea. Its trending towards 100 deg here in central Texas and so that is what I am going to do...goof off!  Thank you for your advice.

Sincerely

Don

Good eyes Don glad you got to goof off

@WesternPacific, Scott, I love that Southern Pacific switcher, the fellows on the front look happy, very nice scene, Happy FEF fellows, oh yes, on the recent page, RSJB18 Bob, the Menards Sante Fe F unit looks beautiful and right at home, Happy Railroading Everyone

@coach joe posted:

Mel, weren't the P2s from CUT?

Joe,

The P-1a electric motors operated under catenary at Cleveland Union Terminal beginning in 1929. Electric operation was eliminated by dieselization of CUT during the 1950s. Twenty P-1a motors were converted to 660-volt DC third-rail power and designated P-2b for operation between Grand Central Terminal and Croton-Harmon in 1955.

MELGAR