Front end Friday.....

The 19th Century - front and center (...and in the back as well )

Sunrise at the "Charles Street Yard..."

Beautiful PA's Paul!

An Espee cab forward waits at the yard shack for clearance to head east.

Good Morning my FEF friends here’s today’s FEF Have a great weekend

Happy FEF everyone!

Front end of a World's Fair R-36 coming around the El-

Good morning, been a while since I posted a photo but I have been enjoying other members contributions to FEF.

Here is some Pennsy action on a cold December morning in 1949.

M1a # 6715 has to wait for L1 # 203 clear before it can proceed.

L1 # 203 is putting up some nice white smoke on this cold morning.

L1 # 520 on the outer track has stopped to take on water at the water plug.

Rusty

Front End Friday: The magnificent T1 in O scale by MTH.

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HAPPY FEF!

A hint of things to come.....

My favorite Hudson.

End of the front kind for this fine Friday:  A smoking hot front end!!

@RixTrack posted:

My favorite Hudson.

Nice bus as well, Rix. Beautiful scene.

Here is a close up of the front end of a 3rd Rail F3.   I held off buying any PRR F3 because no manufacturer until now, other than high end brass, had the correct number boards on their PRR F3s.  3rd Rail made their PRR F3s with the correct small, streamlined 4-digit number board, so I had to have them.  The small number boards were on all F3 A units, and even the first 20 F7A units.  All F7 units after that had the standard large, angled 5-digit number boards most roads used.  Thank you Sunset.

Riding the Ol' Put on this Front End Friday.

@Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

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Wow ! Those are way cool looking Steve . I have a similar standard gauge project I want to build stashed away up in the attic . I may have to move it down to my work bench after seeing these .

Have A nice Friday All!

Happy FEF!

O scale PRR PA1 by Lionel.

Happy FEF!

Here are a couple of front ends of Pennsy steamers with some added fairings.

In 1936 Raymond Loewy designed shrouds for K4 #3768 for use on the Broadway Limited.  Some of the shrouding was removed for better maintenance during WWII, and later completely removed. For my post WWII "Torpedo", some shrouds over the drivers have been removed.

In 1940, the Pennsy streamlined four more engines for use on their first class passenger trains.  This streamlining was less than what the Torpedo had, and many (including me) thinks it looked better than the Torpedo.  Like the Torpedo, the streamlining was completely removed around 1950.

The Torpedo is Weaver, the streamlined is Williams.

Rusty

Great front end pictures everyone, awesome layouts, great looking models, today my pictures are of the real thing, Diesels located at The new CSX Caskey Yards, Oak Grove Kentucky, 20 miles north of Clarksville, Tennessee. Happy Railroading Everyone

Thank goodness it's Friday! Here's a Marklin HO Digital Mike pulling some '60's rolling stock.

Happy FEF

A custom American style 4-4-0 made by Weinman.

a French BZL, repowered with a Marx motor.

Hello F.E.F fans, today I am going to post like leapinlarry in 1:1 scale.  My wife and I just returned from a cruise down the Rhine river (a trip due to COVID that was postponed nearly 2 years)  and during that vacation I had a unique opportunity.  I was able to visit the "Technical Museum" ("Technik Museum") in Speyer, Germany.  This place was incredible, boats, cars, rocket ships, and Railroad Locomotives.  So here are a few pictures from my trip.

First let me say that after so many years of steam engines not being common we tend to forget (at least I did) how BIG these machines actually were.  As a comparison of size here I am (5'5") standing next to a German 2-8-2 freight type locomotive.  The drive wheels are just about 5 ft in diameter the engine almost 50 feet long .

Here of course, since its F.E.F is the front end of a high speed passenger engine 4-6-2 with drivers that were more like 70-80 " high.  Well over my head.

A better view of that front end.

And for all of you that are more electric engine fans, here is the German "Crocodile" locomotive. This thing was huge, it had to be almost 60+ feet long.

You might have noticed the that there were barriers blocking access to the locomotive cabs.  Unfortunately COVID restrictions still held in the small space of the cabs and thus we could not go into the locomotive cabs, which under ordinary circumstances was permitted.

Best wishes for a great weekend

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Hello F.E.F fans, today I am going to post like leapinlarry in 1:1 scale.  My wife and I just returned from a cruise down the Rhine river (a trip due to COVID that was postponed nearly 2 years)  and during that vacation I had a unique opportunity.  I was able to visit the "Technical Museum" ("Technik Museum") in Speyer, Germany.  This place was incredible, boats, cars, rocket ships, and Railroad Locomotives.  So here are a few pictures from my trip.

First let me say that after so many years of steam engines not being common we tend to forget (at least I did) how BIG these machines actually were.  As a comparison of size here I am (5'5") standing next to a German 2-8-2 freight type locomotive.  The drive wheels are just about 5 ft in diameter the engine almost 50 feet long .

Here of course, since its F.E.F is the front end of a high speed passenger engine 4-6-2 with drivers that were more like 70-80 " high.  Well over my head.

A better view of that front end.

And for all of you that are more electric engine fans, here is the German "Crocodile" locomotive. This thing was huge, it had to be almost 60+ feet long.

You might have noticed the that there were barriers blocking access to the locomotive cabs.  Unfortunately COVID restrictions still held in the small space of the cabs and thus we could not go into the locomotive cabs, which under ordinary circumstances was permitted.

Best wishes for a great weekend

Don

Great pix Don.

Happy FEF, everyone! Great pics, Don. What a fabulous vacation! I can taste the perfectly brewed beer from here.  As for me, I took my #7 R-33 Redbird for a spin this morning on the Florida fabricated flushing elevated line.

RSJB18 / Strap Hanger:  Thanks for the complements.  Strap Hanger love those "red birds" and yes, the beer was good!

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Hello F.E.F fans, today I am going to post like leapinlarry in 1:1 scale.  My wife and I just returned from a cruise down the Rhine river (a trip due to COVID that was postponed nearly 2 years)  and during that vacation I had a unique opportunity.  I was able to visit the "Technical Museum" ("Technik Museum") in Speyer, Germany.  This place was incredible, boats, cars, rocket ships, and Railroad Locomotives.  So here are a few pictures from my trip.

Don great pictures and the massiveness of these machines are indeed loss on our layouts. I will have to add the Museum to our shore excursions list when we go in April 2023 on our Viking river cruise. Hope you had a great time.

Rick a quick message that's perhaps a little off track.  Our cruise was also on Viking and the cruise director put me on to the museum at Speyer it was not in the Viking literature or part of the package tour but it was just across the street from where the boat was docked.  He told me..."I know you and what interests you (we had spoken often on transportation subjects) and he told me..."forget the included tour and go to the museum!"

Hope you have a great time.  OBTW...as you cruise down the Rhine, there are RR tracks on both sides of the river, easily visible from the river.  On these is an almost continuous parade of both passenger and freight trains...quite a sight all electric locomotives.  There were trains on one side or the other about every 3-5 minutes!!

Don

Don, what outstanding photos! I remember when I was stationed in Austria we took the trains everywhere! We would go 5 days out and 5 days back!

Strap Hanger, wonderful photo, it must be a subway train as I dont know what a subway engine looks like!

Rusty Torque, Very cool, we have a real one kind of like that in town with a log load behind it, I will have to try and get a photo of it!

Done running trains for today, thought this would be appropriate for FEF

Don McErlean, great pictures snd I bet there was plenty to eat on the cruise, they are lots of fun. Great pictures everyone. Happy Railroading Everyone (The cars are on display at the North Carolina Railroad Transportation Museum)

End of the front kind for this fine Friday!   " Here comes a train!!"

It's almost here!!

WOW!!  There it is!!  

Rich, Leapinlarry, mikeg :  Thanks for the compliments.  Yes Larry there was LOT's of FOOD!! I am not used to eating 3 FULL meals a day but I did like it...  Rich - best of luck on your cruise, I believe you have selected the best company (wife and I have done several with them going back about 5 years).  Larry loved the cars, the Model T "Speedster" is interesting, you know in those early days, you could buy a chassis / motor built up without a body from Ford then it would go to a special body maker who would make you a special car ... like the Speedster.  Trumptrain - beautiful fall scenes as usual for you...great pictures and I love looking at them and picking out the people.

Best wishes all

Don

Happy Front End Friday! Here’s another picture of my favorite locomotive, a Southern Pacific “Mallee” (cab forward).

FEF in Paradise GS-2 Daylight style!