Front End Friday

Here are a couple of "front ends" a few decades apart.  First the classic Lionel Berkshire from the 1950's.  One of the largest steamers Lionel put out in the post war period and it headed many of Lionel's top outfits.

Then from 3 decades earlier, the American Flyer ( Chicago Flyer) #1211 steeple cab of the 1920's.

Well its foggy this morning and I have to go teach my class so I'm off!  Best wishes

Don

Here’s an engineer figure a high school classmate carved and painted for my layout. Looks like he’s about ready to mount up and take the GP9 out. 😉

Happy FeF!  More subway yard front end shots -

A trio of New Haven Mountain types wait their call in the Cedar Hill New Haven yard on my New Haven/New York Ontario and Western layout. The Mountain in the middle belongs to Chris Vigarito, a raiboy from the Mahopac area of New York. Chris has super detailed it and has posted his progress on it on the Forum over the past few months. The Mountain ran just as good as it looks.Great job Chris.

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!    RS 1 approaches on outside mainline as a 44 tonner heads up a short freight on the inside main.

RS 1 west bound with way freght.

Happy FEF!

Running some tea pots this week.

Bob

Back up on another FEF  .         With a Gp60 joining the F7s needed for the steep climb out over the Allegheny mountain's Horseshoe Curve.   Harrisburg visit was great but can't wait to get back home out west.

Lashup with ps3  Premiers for this front end.

2 powered A F7s  , a nonpowered B unit  ,  1 powered Gp60  , and  a nonpowered  rear A unit .

God speed all.

So Dallas, 5 engines to pull 4 cars? 🤔 They ARE beautiful, though. 😉👍

And by the way, since when is Du Bois, PA “out west?” 😂

Great looking train, Dallas! Shiny!

Here’s a recent acquisition from a fellow forumite. Railking, and I was not expecting the pacemaker green color; a pleasant suprise!

I took this photo on the Golden Gate Lionel RR Club layout. The layout was on display at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos CA.

All 3 engines are mine. The UP 4-8-4 was an unpainted model that I painted and lettered a few years back. The SP 4-8-4 is pulling a sting of American Freedom freight cars.

Ray

Happy FEF!

Happy FEF!

@Yellowstone Special posted:

So Dallas, 5 engines to pull 4 cars? 🤔 They ARE beautiful, though. 😉👍

And by the way, since when is Du Bois, PA “out west?” 😂

Thank you sir Yellowstone Special .

That Horseshoe Curve is a monster Ray.   5 engines on the O31s    uphill is a bunch.

Well Ray , DuBois is somewhat west of that area and only 4 cars does need a lot of horses to get those big  passengers over the Alleghenies after all the overly generous dining that took place .   

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Thank you sir Yellowstone Special .

That Horseshoe Curve is a monster Ray.   5 engines on the O31s    uphill is a bunch.

Well Ray , DuBois is somewhat west of that area and only 4 cars does need a lot of horses to get those big  passengers over the Alleghenies after all the overly generous dining that took place .   

Ah, I guess I didn’t think of that. 😉

Latest project.

Pete

3 PRR engines in the Great Northeastern Railway's Mt. Carroll Yard on a foggy morning, awaiting their day's assignments.

Hooked to their respective trains, the same 3 engines await clearance to leave Mt. Carroll yard on their daily journeys.

@Randy Harrison posted:

3 PRR engines in the Great Northeastern Railway's Mt. Carroll Yard on a foggy morning, awaiting their day's assignments.

Definitely looks appropriate to me Randy.

We've been covered in fog for the last few days with this warm up.  Temp is going the other way now though.

Great looking photo sir.

GM Aero Train

Happy Front End Friday all! Another great turnout in this thread, lots of awesome photos and video's to enjoy!

Here's a quick video with Southern Pacific, last run for SP for awhile, gonna put Santa Fe and WP on the rails tonight for a change. Rounding the corner horns blasting on the approach.