Front End Friday

Have a good FEF!

I had to come up with something and the BNSF 5835 sitting on the siding waiting for the Pacific Amtrak to pass by on my old layout! It is going to have an extra-long wait as I am just starting to build a new train room in Missouri!

PRR Electrics on the job.

Alco PA's  Lionel top and early Williams bottom

HAPPY  FEF  all. 😎

Have a great evening and God speed .

Conrail 4128 on the point of a hot shot unit train of Trailer Train TTUX cars.  This is a MTH Rail King model of an EMD SD90MAC.  In reality 4128 was a SD80MAC that started out as EMDX 8000.

In another topic we were discussing the Baldwin Sharknose.  Here are mine from Lionel.

Norfolk and Western #611 J and Norfolk Southern F7 passenger trains side by side crossing the Hellgate bridge on The SOUTH FORK RAILROAD

Good looking photo Craig .

That is one really sharp looking bridge .

@PRRronbh posted:

Me too on the blue one!

Ron

@PRRronbh  Is yours a darker blue?  I'm not familiar with all of the Blue Comet variations so I'm curious if it came in different shades.

thanks - walt

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Good looking photo Craig .

That is one really sharp looking bridge .

Thank you much for your compliment.  

@walt rapp posted:

@PRRronbh  Is yours a darker blue?  I'm not familiar with all of the Blue Comet variations so I'm curious if it came in different shades.

thanks - walt

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Not.sure.much.differnt!

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Ron

@PRRronbh I guess that must have been it because your new pictures are spot on the same as mine

thanks for answering

walt

Well forum friends I am away from home on vacation and away from my collection, so I have to peruse my photo archives for the right pictures.  This is from a couple of years ago so if you have seen it I apologize.  It is an American Flyer, (Chicago Flyer) type x from 1932.  This was a wonderful era for Chicago flyer and you can see that by the amount of add on detail for piping and handrails. Note the handrails on the tender even.   She is all diecast and quite a "heavy hauler"  While not the "top of the line" in her day, she was clearly a premium offering from Flyer at the time.

Happy F.E.F. everyone  Have a great weekend

Don

Happy FEF!

Bob

- walt

Lionel METCA GP7

My front-end views for this Friday, June 28, 2024, show New Haven #3400, an MTH Premier model (20-3148-2) of a USRA 0-8-0 switcher, heading toward the camera on my 10’-by-5’ layout.

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

My front-end views for this Friday, June 28, 2024, show New Haven #3400, an MTH Premier model (20-3148-2) of a USRA 0-8-0 switcher, heading toward the camera on my 10’-by-5’ layout.

MELGAR

Good lookin’ freight train, Mel

The "Chief" loading passengers at the North Main Street station...