Front end Friday.....

I shot these working by the tracks Wednesday. They were both moving it along at a good clip.

Happy F E F !!

Roadrailers in Johnstown, c. 1998

EBT at Orbisonia, c. August 2010

Apples55 posted:

PSAP2010 posted:

Paul, if you really want one , you could always buy an MTH PS1 version and have it converted to TMCC.  

 

Larry

Another bad influence is heard from!!!  

But seriously, Larry, the thought did cross my mind, but I have no idea what would be involved (other than money!!!). I do own one MTH engine, a shelf queen Metro North Genesis in NH livery, which I would consider for a conversion. 

ERR by 3rd Rail is TMCC Compatible

Bob

So now that I've finished nudging Paul over the cliff....

Happy FEF!

                      happy "F E F" !

                      taking down the tree day...          have a great weekend !!

Front End Friday!

RSJB18 posted:

Apples55 posted:

PSAP2010 posted:

Paul, if you really want one , you could always buy an MTH PS1 version and have it converted to TMCC.  

 

Larry

Another bad influence is heard from!!!  

But seriously, Larry, the thought did cross my mind, but I have no idea what would be involved (other than money!!!). I do own one MTH engine, a shelf queen Metro North Genesis in NH livery, which I would consider for a conversion. 

ERR by 3rd Rail is TMCC Compatible

Bob

Apples 55,

THe other front end when running backwards.

Ron

I forgot something!

Some photos of Conway Scenic Railroad's operating engines.

Front Ends for this fine Friday! 

My Kato N Scale Amtrak Genesis from 2011 is my Front End Friday entry this week.

Yes, the structural integrity of the bridge pier in the foreground was compromised, but all of the rail equipment was able to pass under the bridge without clipping the pier 

                    NYS&W RS3 #101, ex-D&H #4088, at Little Ferry, NJ- Sept.87'

                                                             MY PHOTO 

Lionel, postwar, EMD F-3, A-B-A Diesels lead the Super Chief into the station at the town of Terryville.

A Lionel, 736 Berkshire steam locomotive from the postwar era heads a 17 car box car train on the freight track through the town of Terryville.

Two Lionel, postwar locomotives, an S-2 Steam Turbine and an EMD F-3 Diesel, pull their passenger trains out the city of Christopolis' Union Station for points east and west.

Happy FEF!

Good Day everyone, your pictures are great. I drive over to the RJ Corman terminal in Guthrrie Kentucky a few minutes ago to try and get a 2020 calendar, however no one was there. So I took a few pictures of their trucks. Anyone know how to obtain a new RJ Corman calendar for 2020? 

RSJB18 posted:

Apples55 posted:

PSAP2010 posted:

Paul, if you really want one , you could always buy an MTH PS1 version and have it converted to TMCC.  

 

Larry

Another bad influence is heard from!!!  

But seriously, Larry, the thought did cross my mind, but I have no idea what would be involved (other than money!!!). I do own one MTH engine, a shelf queen Metro North Genesis in NH livery, which I would consider for a conversion. 

ERR by 3rd Rail is TMCC Compatible

Bob

RSJB18 posted:

So now that I've finished nudging Paul over the cliff....

Happy FEF!

Bob... Bob... Bob... 

No way you could nudge me over the cliff. I have been in free fall for so long, I don’t even remember what the cliff looks like  

Now, a few salient points on your evil suggestion... while I am aware that ERR is TMCC compatible, I have recently given more than enough money to 3rd Rail for a while (but that will be the subject of another post in the next day or so). And even if I did find a compatible MTH engine, acknowledged Techno-peasant I would have no idea what has to come out of said engine, nor how I go about inserting/connecting the suggested ERR board or boards, so I would need to find/pay a more technically competent individual to do the swap. That would definitely send the total cost over a new comparable Lionel diesel such a another recent purchase (which will also be in the aforementioned post). So I guess I will just have to wait and hope... the first Lionel catalogue is just weeks away!!!

PRRronbh posted:

RSJB18 posted:

Apples55 posted:

PSAP2010 posted:

 

 

Apples 55,

THe other front end when running backwards.

Ron

I forgot something!

Eeeuuuhhh!!! I can’t unsee that. Talk about ugly.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but yes that is bad! 

Tom 

Athearn rack and B&M

MNCW posted:

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but yes that is bad! 

Tom 

 

It's so ugly, it is actually beautiful'....... we've all seen humans and animals that fit the same description............ 

leapinlarry posted:

Good Day everyone, your pictures are great. I drive over to the RJ Corman terminal in Guthrrie Kentucky a few minutes ago to try and get a 2020 calendar, however no one was there. So I took a few pictures of their trucks. Anyone know how to obtain a new RJ Corman calendar for 2020? 

LeapinLarry,

Seeing your post earlier today made me decide to take a few pix this evening when I got off the train.

These CSX or SFRTA trucks are usually parked in the Tri-Rail parking garage at my Tri-Rail station (Pompano Beach). One of them has a Washington State license plate up front. Need to check one day what the rear plate (the official location used in Florida) is.

              happy "F E F" everyone !!

                       have a great weekend !!

Second in line today!

If the moderators are okay, I'm going to use some stills from my YouTube Channel videos on a trip to New York back in February 2017.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGFQz4ysm8M

It was a cold, blustery morning at the Woodside/61^st Street station in Queens with a nice icy feel.  According to Weather Underground, the temperature that day at nearby LaGuardia Airport was 45 degrees at the time I was filming there (basically 8:00a - 10:00a).  With 14 mph winds the wind chill was around 38 up there on the elevated platforms, and I had fun.

Two LIRR M7's heading east to Long Island.

R62A Number 7 Train heading to Manhattan

R188 Number 7 Train heading to Flushing

The ”Rear” front of this LIRR M7 heading to Manhattan

And another “Rear” front view of an LIRR M7 heading east when I visited my old teenage stomping grounds at Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn a couple days before.  If I had the room (don't we all wish) I would replicate this long elevated straightaway in O complete with buildings and under track streetscape scenery like others have done in layouts.  Would need at least 12-14 feet of straight track though.  The stuff produced by Bridgeboss would be perfect for this.

 Happy Front End Friday everyone!

Happy FEF!

Since you guy's are all picking on the humble BL-2, I need to put both of my BL-2's side by side and take a shot of the rear ends......

        NJT EMD GP40PH-2 #4107, ex- CNJ #3680 at Elizabeth port shops- Oct.86'.

                      This engine was built in Oct. 1968 and is still on NJT roster. 

                                                         MY PHOTO

Frontends for the fine Friday! 

more front ends

Rusty

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SCL

Happy F E F, good people!

A familiar face was in Johnstown, Pa that day.

I look about 12 in that pic so 1962, about to board the Chicago El.

I just now took this pic of another familiar face.

MTH RailKing PRR M1-B Heads a long coal train.

Steam help for Growler-powered Pennsy Varnish!

From my height (walking on right) I look about 5 which means Dad took this pic in 1955 which was pretty late to see steam on the PRR Mainline.

On Edit: That seems far-fetched. That must be my Brother which would make it about 1948 which is much more reasonable, especially since my only memory of revenue steam was a B&O passenger train.

OK here is my "front end view" for this Friday.  NYC F-3 readies for her run to the City...pretty much stopping traffic in "small town" right at the busiest time of day !!

Don

B&O EMD F series Diesel awaiting assignment on the "ready" track.

geysergazer posted:

Happy F E F, good people!

       

A familiar face was in Johnstown, Pa that day.

       

I look about 12 in that pic so 1962, about to board the Chicago El.

      

I just now took this pic of another familiar face.

 We all  sported those nice close haircuts in those days'.. And you look like cool hand Lew'.  A young one for sure'...  Great pictures'.... 1962... that was a good year for me.. Lots of memories...... and adventures'...  Something I think most kids miss out on today.  Videos and cell phones can't replace real adventure'...

Happy Friday! 
Took this in East St. Louis last week. Enjoy your weekend everyone 

A Happy F E F to all here!

Winter:

Well, "Spring" actually. A Maple Sugar Special at West Salisbury, Pa with FPA2 #4015 on-point.

Summer:

Again, #4015 running-around an excursion train, a train with the home-built open-air car.

Switching action on the PER.

Just took this photo of a northbound Tri-Rail led by a Hyundai Rotem Cab Car #518 at the Pompano Beach station on this rainy morning here.

Happy Front End Friday!!!

Playing with early morning light on this F E F.

At this time-of-year the Sun rises in the Southeast and streams in the South-facing Train Room window so the light hits this Northwest facing engine.

A few feet further forward:

I like this shot the best, taken with the train another few feet further forward:

Finally, a Front End of a different kind:

Happy FEF!

It is June 1949 and the Train of Tomorrow has completed its 2-year tour of the U.S. and is getting ready for its visit to Canada.

S HiRail and S Scale, so happy together:

Rusty

Wow great looking line up already guys!  

           happy "F E F" everyone !

                   Marci caught this one working out at the Anderson's last week...

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   Have a great weekend everyone!

       NJT G.E. E60, 6000 HP, Electric at E-Port- Oct. 86'.  All ten NJT E60s were retired in 1998.

                          This engine was saved and donated to the UHRS of NJ.

                                                            MY PHOTO

B&A

Here is a 1:1 scale picture of Irish Rail Express at Dublin in the Irish Republic ready to depart for Belfast in Northern Ireland.  Wife and I

were on this train, May 26, 2019 .  

Happy FEF everyone

Don

Here we go with my originally intended entries for today.  My 7:02 am photo sent in earlier this morning on my commute was just perfect timing 

Two shots from last Friday afternoon of southbound Tri-Rail trains at the Metrorail/Tri-Rail Transfer Station in Hialeah.

First, loco BL36PH #822

And then GP49 #816.  This was an out of service train leaving the Hialeah rail yards to Miami Airport to get in place for its northbound run.

You will notice that the trains are running to the left side of the engineer.  Because of the design of the transfer station, both northbound and southbound trains will alternate the platform they operate on. The west side platform I took the pictures from is the one that is directly connected to the Metrorail station (the east side platform is connected via overhead walkway to the west side platform on the north end of the station in addition to crossing the tracks at-grade at the south end of the station) so depending on the time of day, the trains with the majority of the directional flow of passengers gets the west side platform so that commuters can make their transfer connections easier to/from each mode.

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 Johan, that is a great looking box car'..  Did you modify that back end with the opening doors?  Great auto car'...

I took these several years ago at a railway museum near Krakow, Poland.

Since its still Friday where I am, here's a couple of fast front ends from a trip my wife and I took to Italy last May (about which I posted a short description on OGR last June).  These front ends look fast, even when standing still.  The first is Alstom's ETR-675 for the private rail Italo, which we rode from Rome to Venice.

The second is Bombardier's ETR1000, the "red arrow" built for the state railway Trenitalia

which we rode from Venice to Florence.

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 Johan, that is a great looking box car'..  Did you modify that back end with the opening doors?  Great auto car'...

Ted. Thank you. Yes, the back doors are 3D printed and i build also the interior. This is a speeder car. The idea came from to Joey Kelley. 🤝

Johan

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 Johan, that is a great looking box car'..  Did you modify that back end with the opening doors?  Great auto car'...

Ted. Thank you. Yes, the back doors are 3D printed and i build also the interior. This is a speeder car. The idea came from to Joey Kelley. 🤝

Johan

 That is very cool'.  You did a great job capturing the prototype'... Nice work'... Johan'..

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

 Johan, that is a great looking box car'..  Did you modify that back end with the opening doors?  Great auto car'...

Ted. Thank you. Yes, the back doors are 3D printed and i build also the interior. This is a speeder car. The idea came from to Joey Kelley. 🤝

Johan

 That is very cool'.  You did a great job capturing the prototype'... Nice work'... Johan'..

Ted. Thank you very much. 🤝

Johan

Water Tower Area

Everyone great pictures, unique scenes, out of this world Fast Trains in Italy...Wow, from around the world... I will include a picture of Korea’s fast train... Have a great weekend and enjoy some train time... Happy Railroading 

sidehack posted:

Water Tower Area

 That is a excellent life like scene'.. I especially like the foundation under the water tower'...  Very nice Ray'...

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

sidehack posted:

Water Tower Area

 That is a excellent life like scene'.. I especially like the foundation under the water tower'...  Very nice Ray'...

Thanks, the water tower itself was built by me with much help from a friend and I did the final scene, here are a couple more views:

Good evening Ray, I agree that is a nice scene.

I like all the small details even the water drain grate in the concrete.

Nice job  !!!!!

 Thanks for the additional pics Ray'.. It is indeed a perfect scene in every aspect'.. And of course as mentioned by Mark, the details are the eye candy that pulls it all together'...!!!

Happy FEF!

Happy FEF...

          Happy "F E F" everyone !!

                                    have a GREAT Superbowl weekend

Happy F E F to all here!

This photo is owned by NASA and is Public Domain.

And this pic I took yesterday:

MTH got the horns almost correct. On the prototype they are centered whereas on the model they are offset to the right but I'm good with it. Also, the trucks are white on the prototype, not gray.

Amtrak going to fast to get a second shot and Burlington Junction #1518 parked.

A shifter has two front ends

This is a MTH Baldwin VO-1000 (or Pennsy BS10).

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   May you have a Super weekend! 

Sperry Rail Services #118 on NYS&W, former Lehigh & Hudson River, track at Franklin, NJ- April 87'.

            This was the site of a massive derailment that took out a highway bridge.   

                                                               MY PHOTOS

My Lionel Boy Scouts of America set from 2011 when I was a Cubmaster (that's my Assistant Scoutmaster photo in my avatar)

Enjoy your Front End Friday!!!

Happy Friday everyone! 

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

          Happy "F E F" everyone !!

                                    have a GREAT Superbowl weekend

 

 

 Brian, what a beautiful paint job on 16B'.  I just love that color scheme on the MLK Road Locos...

geysergazer posted:

Happy F E F to all here!

        

This photo is owned by NASA and is Public Domain.

And this pic I took yesterday:

        

MTH got the horns almost correct. On the prototype they are centered whereas on the model they are offset to the right but I'm good with it. Also, the trucks are white on the prototype, not gray.

 Lew, that is a very handsome locomotive'.. Didn't know NASA had locos. Where did you take that photo?  We need more information and history'...

Engineer on Southern 3088 is ready to pull out of yard

Through the concrete canyon

C&O Hudson 490 "Yellow Belly"

The Daylight ready for action.

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

geysergazer posted:

Happy F E F to all here!

        

This photo is owned by NASA and is Public Domain.

And this pic I took yesterday:

        

MTH got the horns almost correct. On the prototype they are centered whereas on the model they are offset to the right but I'm good with it. Also, the trucks are white on the prototype, not gray.

 Lew, that is a very handsome locomotive'.. Didn't know NASA had locos. Where did you take that photo?  We need more information and history'...

Ted, the prototype photo was taken at the Kennedy Space Center by a NASA photographer. According to Wiki they have 38mi of track. I have permission to post this map because it is marked as Public Domain (by Wiki):

Their reporting mark is NLAX. 

geysergazer posted:

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

geysergazer posted:

Happy F E F to all here!

        

This photo is owned by NASA and is Public Domain.

And this pic I took yesterday:

        

MTH got the horns almost correct. On the prototype they are centered whereas on the model they are offset to the right but I'm good with it. Also, the trucks are white on the prototype, not gray.

 Lew, that is a very handsome locomotive'.. Didn't know NASA had locos. Where did you take that photo?  We need more information and history'...

Ted, the prototype photo was taken at the Kennedy Space Center by a NASA photographer. According to Wiki they have 38mi of track. I have permission to post this map because it is marked as Public Domain (by Wiki):

                

Their reporting mark is NLAX. 

Now how cool would it be to build this as a model RR. Saturn V rockets and all........

Trains&Rockets!   What could be better? 

Finnish State Railways (VR) Dr16 #2816.

Good evening, I shot a couple of short videos last week for this weeks Front End Friday.

In the first video we see Pennsy M1a 6715 patiently waiting at W Interlock.

The M1 and it's crew should have been long gone by now but had to set off three coal hoppers for a local business. This delay has put them behind schudule and will now have to wait for a boxcar drag which is led by a Pennsy L1 to pass before they can proceed.

The second video is M1a 6715 getting under way with its coal drag.

Here's my contribution to "front end Friday".  The Big Berk pulls out of the hole, she may be pulling Harriman's on the commuter run, downgraded from the main and the Atlanta Express, but the engine man knows the power of this steed and he hesitates not and hangs on the whistle.  What a show for all the kids in "small town".

Have a great weekend...Don

Don McErlean posted:

Here's my contribution to "front end Friday".  The Big Berk pulls out of the hole, she may be pulling Harriman's on the commuter run, downgraded from the main and the Atlanta Express, but the engine man knows the power of this steed and he hesitates not and hangs on the whistle.  What a show for all the kids in "small town".

 

Have a great weekend...Don

 

  EXCELLENT!!!!  Beautiful  locos, rolling stock, and layout'...

RSJB18 posted:

geysergazer posted:

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

geysergazer posted:

Happy F E F to all here!

        

This photo is owned by NASA and is Public Domain.

And this pic I took yesterday:

        

MTH got the horns almost correct. On the prototype they are centered whereas on the model they are offset to the right but I'm good with it. Also, the trucks are white on the prototype, not gray.

 Lew, that is a very handsome locomotive'.. Didn't know NASA had locos. Where did you take that photo?  We need more information and history'...

Ted, the prototype photo was taken at the Kennedy Space Center by a NASA photographer. According to Wiki they have 38mi of track. I have permission to post this map because it is marked as Public Domain (by Wiki):

                

Their reporting mark is NLAX. 

Now how cool would it be to build this as a model RR. Saturn V rockets and all........

 That is so cool Lew'.  The east side of that yard should be adjacent to Coco Beach'.. I watched rockets go up from areas outside Nasa area in 1982. Been to Coco Beach, but don't recall the yard'... 

Definitely a great idea for a layout'.......... Thanks for posting'... Lew'... 😃

Good morning all.

Some Tri-Rail Bombardier Cab Cars for Happy Front End Friday!

1:160 Scale:

1:87.1 Scale:

1:48 Scale:

1:1 Scale:

Naperville yesterday.

Hudson at water tank

Horseshoe Curve

Albany-Rennselaer NY, July 1987:

Rusty

Happy F E F to all here!

I know I showed a similar photo of my Weaver Torpedo a couple months ago, but it is so neat I had to do it again.

geysergazer posted:

        

Nice find

Happy FEF!

Happy FEF! Everyone enjoy your weekend 

The front end of the Haysi Coal Co, switcher.

CAPPilot posted:

geysergazer posted:

        

Nice find

When I was a little kid Dad and I watched the Centipedes and I still remember how impressive all those wheels were rumbling past. It is an apt nickname. 

                                      happy "F E F" !!!

                            have a great weekend everyone !

CBS072 posted:

The front end of the Haysi Coal Co, switcher.

I've always found quite resourceful their use of the Hostler controls in a B unit. Thrifty even.   Waste-not-want-not using an otherwise surplus and unwanted F. 

Front End Friday! 

                                  D&H U33C #662 at Maybrook, NY- April 87' 

                                                            MY PHOTO

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!  

Metra going backwards 2 fronts and BNSF going the other way.

FEF  New to me, barely used Wabash 2137.

A Northern Pacific cab-forward is the front end for today.

Its 1950 and with increasing tension in the free world, the Air Force Missile contingent, based in Small Town along the right of way of the Leonardtown and Savannah (ne "Long and Skinny)   begins to move their missiles up from storage to be ready to fire and defend our nation from those "Ruskie Reds"!!  (Anybody here  besides me old enough to remember when we actually had "Minutemen" missile batteries around our towns, I had one). 

H

Happy F.E.F everyone !!

Don McErlean

Good evening, I realize that this post is really for model or toy trains but I can’t resist posting these photo’s taken today of some NS trains in the newly fallen snow that we got overnight.

This is the largest amount of snow we have had so far this year.

So here are some photos and a short video for my contribution this week for FEF !!!

Whats better than a Friday off work, nice white snow and big black engines !!!

Have a good weekend !!!

trumptrain posted:

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!  

Patrick 

Nice Bullnose KW classy touch for FEF