Front End Friday

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   The business ends of a rotary and flanger snow plows as the Free State Junction Railway is being pummeled with snow today.  

Happy Friday everyone! Here’s an R21 redbird and a R62 in the subway yard -

MTH Premier

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

MTH Premier

Mark, another beautiful locomotive in your fleet, the paint scheme is very cool! MTH Premier is great stuff, but right now I only have Lionel CAB-2. I'm waiting for MTH to release the new TIU/WTIU DIGITAL COMMAND SYSTEM 2 so I can start adding MTH locomotives to my fleet! Thanks for posting!!

@tnkMarx posted:

The snow is falling, so time to clear the tracks!

Happy FEF everyone!

For everyone complaining about the lack of snow this!

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   The business ends of a rotary and flanger snow plows as the Free State Junction Railway is being pummeled with snow today.  

Nice equipment Patrick.

@3rail posted:

A trio of F3's....

Lionel Pennsy F3 ABA #9502 from 2012.

Enjoying the day sitting in the Sunroom watching it snow.

Donald

......and sipping a hot toddy !?! 

.......and great looking backround here also 3rail.

Here's my entry for FeF. These 3 Southern Pacific Locomotives could have possibly been on the rails at the same time. The FM Train Master was manufactured from 1953-1957, the 2-6-0 Mogul M6 around until most were retired by 1958, and the EMD SW8 was introduced in 1950.

Happy Friday to you all!!

FEF during a blustery and white mid January today.

MTH RK Imperial Triplex .

God speed all.

Hafner. If I was in S-scale, I would find a fitting S-gauge steam chassis, then customize, edit and detail this shell a bit, and mount it on the chassis. It has a CV and CNW E-4 Hudson-blend look.

Happy FEF

A NH PA in McGinnis colors. These colors were adopted in 1954 when Patrick McGinnis took the throttle. II am not sure which version Williams used on this set.

MYH PRR  MU Set

Here are a couple of "foreign" front ends for today.  Both from the pw period, late 40's early 50's and both by "Brimtoy" of the United Kingdom.

First the "Britannia" steamer

Next the "Wells Brimtoy" Silver Streak.

Happy F.E.F. to everyone.  No snow here in central Texas but very unusual COLD...temperatures well below freezing and way below our normal temps.  Note...I was rewarded last weekend with frozen and then broken water pipes...What a Circus!!

Best Wishes

Do

Wow, it’s been awhile since I’ve had time to post some locomotives and diesels on this very uniquely interesting subject, Front End Friday. Beautiful pictures everyone. For those in freezing and icy conditions, or flooding areas, you All are in our prayers. Happy Railroading Everyone…

@leapinlarry posted:

Wow, it’s been awhile since I’ve had time to post some locomotives and diesels on this very uniquely interesting subject, Front End Friday. Beautiful pictures everyone. For those in freezing and icy conditions, or flooding areas, you All are in our prayers. Happy Railroading Everyone…

Great FEF display as always Larry.  ........

.........and what a fun area you still have to run trains in.     Amazing layout . 

@Don McErlean posted:

Here are a couple of "foreign" front ends for today.           First the "Britannia" steamer

Next the "Wells Brimtoy" Silver Streak.

Happy F.E.F. to everyone.  No snow here in central Texas but very unusual COLD...temperatures well below freezing and way below our normal temps.  Note...I was rewarded last weekend with frozen and then broken water pipes...What a Circus!!

Always a delight seeing your unique models Don.

Hope you didn't have too much damage to the water pipes .

Over here the 10 inches of snow is insulating the water pipes from the 10 degree air temp this morning..

God speed sir.

Larry I didn't know the New York City Subway system had a line down to Tennessee.

@Dallas Joseph- Thank you for the kind words about my trains and my frozen pipes!!  Luckily when the water returned the leak (more like a fountain) was outside so only the lawn got flooded.  Was finally able to get a plumbing crew in to fix it on Thursday afternoon.  4 days w/o water is not fun...Thanks again for asking Dallas.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Yup.......better having the excess water outside.

( where I lived before we saw ice coming out of the second and first story windows at our neighbor's  in the winter while they were away on vacation. Ugh!!! )

Happy Front End Friday everyone! This week I'm running some New York Central steamers on my layout. On the outer mainline, I'm running my big MTH 763e gray Hudson, my biggest technically-tinplate locomotive.

On the inner mainline, one of my few "shelf queens": a Lionel TMCC Mikado. It's a very pretty engine but has the early Odyssey speed control that doesn't work well. (Someday I'll get around to a Cruise Commander upgrade for this.)

Here's the obligatory video from my layout.

Morning Front end Friday fans, Railking Sothern Pacific #4449 with a passenger car set, and a Williams Boston and Maine GP-9 #8665.

My model of New Haven Railroad Alco RS-1#0668 was made by Atlas O (6888-2, MSRP $429.95) in 2004. Here are some Front-End Friday views of #0668 for January 26, 2024.

MELGAR