Front End Friday

THANKS Joe!  Much appreciated.

Don

I was able to get this together quicker than I thought.

I think I've got all the major areas.  K-line made this in quite a few liveries in many handsome paint schemes.  In addition to this handsome lightning stripe inspired gray Pacific, I've also got 3004 Ringling Bros., red, blue, yellow and silver with a similar tender and 3014 Anheuser-Busch in a handsome Black, gray, brown scheme with a longer brown tender.

@coach joe posted:

@don Don I'll try to take some better photos and post tomorrow.

I’d like to see that as well.

Happy Front End Friday everyone! This week on the layout, I'm running some Rock Island motive power, starring my most recent acquisition, a Lionchief Plus 2.0 GP7. (I just did a writeup on this locomotive's features earlier this week.)

I'm also running one of my 3D printed masterworks, this meticulously pinstriped RI AB6 (which I think I featured last fall).

Hope your "front ends" stay in service like mine!

Happy FEF!

Just repaired this engine and got it running again.

Bob

Happy FEF.

Here's my end of the front kind for this fine Friday!   Lionel PW Santa Fe  NW2  and a MTH B&O Docksider.

My front end view for Friday, February 16, 2024 is New York Central System 0-6-0 #231. It's an MTH Premier model (20-3281-1) delivered in December 2007 with 3-volt PS2 at MSRP $599.95 and built to the 0-6-0 steam switcher design developed by the United States Railroad Administration during World War 1. I took the photo and video on the back straight of my 10’-by-5’ layout.

MELGAR

Well following @Trainguy Ken - here are a couple more RI front ends...

The Marx 1998 Alco S-2 switcher

The Marx RI 70 Ton with matching caboose

The RI Marx E7 ABA

Best Wishes

Don

Pre War Lionel 2-6-2 225E on a Front end Friday making a run.

Lionel, from the Coastal Freight (Service Station?) Set. Thanks for the idea, Bob.

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

Lionel, from the Coastal Freight (Service Station?) Set. Thanks for the idea, Bob.

Looks like that's it Mark.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...35#11566934574943235

The "Chief" pulls in on a chilly winter's night...

Wow, I can't believe that it's FEF again, already! Where does the time go?  🤷‍♂️

I’d buy the SS sets, and swap out the Lionel engines and cabooses for their Railking analogues.

How many front ends do you see on the Friday?

Assorted F units, front end views.

K5, J3.

Lionel’s early TMCC version of New York Central’s S1 Electric  locomotive idles at the front end of a consist of NYC Pacemaker box cars.

Happy Friday!  In keeping with Bob & Mark's Delaware & Hudson theme to this week's FEF, here's a MTH Premier D&H U30C...