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Lionel really did a nice job on these early Scale F3. Lots of nice detail and they sit lower than many of Lionel's E & F units that had the unfortunate 'High-water' look.  Plans are to install Kadees to close couple the ABBA's and eventually the cars. I have the two B units for this set and 8 K-Line 18" passenger cars. Haven't had the opportunity to run and video the whole train yet.

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Don McErleanDon McErleanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Great Front Ends everyone...NYC fan, that is one handsome engine, a classic "10 Wheeler", who made it?   I am going to "pile on" to tnkMarx and his great grey NYC 588 type GE 70 tonner and the B&M Deluxe boxcar with a NYC 588 of mine.

Here is the maroon NYC 588 and its (sort of) matching NYC caboose.  Not quite a front end shot but close enough I hope, my phone (which is my camera) gave up the ghost yesterday and is in for repair/replacement...

Marx 588 NYC maroon

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OH NO... I hit the "post" button too soon.  Here is the second photo as a large size shot.

This is the Marx "Meteor" #994 large size sheet metal loco and a consist of 7" cars.  This train, although it is hard to see, also included the somewhat scarce "Nickel Plate" , sheet metal, 7" tender.

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Sorry for the mess up in posting.  Best wishes for a nice weekend.  It has suddenly turned cold (60's) here in central Texas and the day is dark and overcast...so no yard work today, guess I will just have to play with my trains...OH Dear !  (LOL)

Don

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Don McErleanDon McErleanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Leapinlarry:  Wow, you have done it again my friend.  That dual trailer on flatcar, with the "Ford Exchange Engines" trailers is just amazing.  Those trailers evoke the era when Ford was deeply involved in motor sports.  The film "Ford vs Ferrari" is from that era.  OBTW, in typical Texas fashion, after 60's yesterday it will likely hit 80's today.  Larry hope you get some of this nice weather in Tenn as well...although for me it means I likely won't be able to ignore yard work again today .

Great pictures everyone, hope you all have a wonderful weekend

Don

Don McErleanDon McErleanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

WOW great F.E.F pictures everyone!  Jim K Bogart - I am also awaiting my Williams UP GE 44 tonner as I write this.  We had a similar experience, after watching the "Trainworld" video, I could not resist. I have a Williams Southern RR 44 tonner that I run on my 0-27 loop and I have been very pleased with that, so I was happy to see your video. LeapinLarry - What a Hudson, the level of detail is amazing.  Artie/RSJB18 - maybe we should have a "Beep" fest, I love them too, have 3 myself (USAF,USN, PRR).  Sitka what a beautiful layout, thanks for posting the pictures.

Well here is my offering for this (rainy) Friday in Central Texas...the Lionel # 256 Box cab.  I call her the "beast" because she is the largest pre-war O gauge loco that Lionel offered during the Classic era.  She is the only 2 motored O gauge locomotive Lionel offered until the F3 diesels in 1948.  At 11 1/2 " long, this engine is actually somewhat longer than the Standard Gauge #8.  Made between 1924 and 1930, she was always orange except fro 1928-29 when she was grey.  Typically she led an outfit of two 710 Pullmans and a 712 observation car in matching colors.  This version of mine dates from about 1925.

Here she is on the ready track, awaiting the switch job to assemble her consist for the morning run to Macon and then Atlanta.  This will be a heavy consist as people are headed to the big city for shopping now that the stores are open again.  So the L&S has picked one its most powerful locomotives to handle the crowded train.

Lionel 256 front view

Another view, showing her waiting for the passenger consist to be assembled in the yard and then put in front of the depot for coupling up.

Lionel 256 quarter view

Well Happy F.E.F everyone...have a great weekend

Don

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Paul HenionPaul HenionOGR Forum Member

I'm new to the idea of FEF,..... but here is mine for today;  sort of a Double Front End Friday (DFEF)

On the left is a Lionel Flying Yankee circa 1936, which is actually my Dad's train from when he was a child.  Yes, the paint is a bit beat up, but the chrome is great and who doesn't have a few scratches after 85 years!

On the right is an American Flyer Blue Comet I just recently cleaned up and got running.

Love them old Streamliners!!

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RSJB18RSJB18OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
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Very nice Paul. I started restoring a Lionel M-10000 set a couple of years ago. Need to finish it up one day. The set belonged to a coworkers father. All original including the transformer and rheostat speed control and 072 track.

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Mine has a misspelling of "gauge" on the motor dating the set to1934

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Bob

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Paul HenionPaul HenionOGR Forum Member

Bob;

What a fantastic M-10000 set.  Don't think I knew those came in silver.  Looks like it is very good condition

That is one I'd love to own, but the largest my layout can accommodate is O31 radius.  Any idea why Lionel created this design and limited it to O72?

Artie:  Thanks for the kudos!!

TnkMarx:  That's a nice full scale layout you have there!!!

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Bob;

What a fantastic M-10000 set.  Don't think I knew those came in silver.  Looks like it is very good condition

That is one I'd love to own, but the largest my layout can accommodate is O31 radius.  Any idea why Lionel created this design and limited it to O72?

Artie:  Thanks for the kudos!!

TnkMarx:  That's a nice full scale layout you have there!!!

Thanks Paul. I didn't know much about these sets until this fell into my lap. My layout is all 027 curves so this will only run on the floor unless I can put a temporary table together to run it.

I started a thread on the restoration here, where many other members provided insight to these sets.

Bob

Don McErleanDon McErleanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Well here we are again the end of another week.  Its F.E.F time and it looks like I am early today, the Friday before Mother's Day so I have to be quick and get off the computer before our son's arrive from their homes for celebration.

Here is the Williams, GE-44 ton scale switcher in UP livery.  This one is new to the Leonardtown and Savannah and I am really pleased with her performance.  Smooth running, great motor sounds and good horn.

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Here is the Lionel #2240 Wabash F3 AB units from 1956.  These fellows still run well and pull nicely on my somewhat restricted radius layout (outer loop is 0-31)

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Well Happy F.E.F to all and Happy Mother's Day as well.

Don

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RSJB18RSJB18OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
@Don McErlean posted:

Well here we are again the end of another week.  Its F.E.F time and it looks like I am early today, the Friday before Mother's Day so I have to be quick and get off the computer before our son's arrive from their homes for celebration.

Here is the Williams, GE-44 ton scale switcher in UP livery.  This one is new to the Leonardtown and Savannah and I am really pleased with her performance.  Smooth running, great motor sounds and good horn.

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Don

Nice looking 44 tonner Don. Glad to hear it's a good runner. I'm on my way to Trainland to pick up the PRR version I ordered.

I'll post pix later.

Bob

Amfleet25124Amfleet25124OGR Forum Member

Pulling into the station a bit late today on this one.

Two photos of my Halloween Crusader smoking on the rails.  I'm a member of 2 train clubs.  On the club that has O on their roster, one of the members has a little outside get together in his carport on Wednesday evenings.  Sit back - all socially distanced - talk, have fun and watch trains (O, G and HO).  The HO track in the photo is a Marklin 3-rail track that one of the guys had just purchased (along with a Marklin train)

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Happy FEF!!!

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Don McErleanDon McErleanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Happy F.E.F everyone, great pictures all.  TnkMarx as a fellow Marx fan, I have to comment on that 333.  Best engine Marx produced I believe.  LeapinLarry - The patriotic Alco and F-3 are really neat.  The trolley is also unique, have not seen that livery before...couldn't tell...is it a "bump and go"?  Third rail...I agree for sure...that self propelled crane car sure looks like a "front end" to me!! Thanks for posting.

My offering today is an American Flyer type X die cast loco from 1932-33.  She has a ringing bell, manual reverse, brass trim, and a blue/green stripe down the side.  "American Flyer " decal under cab window and "American Flyer Lines" decal in a recessed square area on boiler side front.

Here is the front view, just entering the suburban station platform.

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Here she is just leaving the "mountains" on the L&S (my pre-war paper/plaster tunnel represents the mountains on my pike)

AF type X diecast loco front

Best wishes all...have a great weekend everyone!

Don

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@Apples55 posted:

Two of my new FE’s for this week...

Yes... I couldn’t resist picking up one of these - I think I’m becoming a fan of small steamers

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A bit of a different front end... You can’t tell from the photo, but the blades on the front are spinning. I’m ready for next winter!!!

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Hi Paul, just wondering do you think it would really throw real snow? Iam only asking as maybe this summer or up coming fall I hope to work on my out doors line!

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@Mike Casatelli posted:

Here's a few for next Friday -

Lionel - NYC J1e -1934 - Commodore Vanderbilt

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3rd Rail -  NYC K5b -1936 - Mercury

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Lionel-Smithsonian - NYC J3a -1938 - 20th Century Limited

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3rd Rail - NYC J3a 1941 - Empire State Express

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3rd Rail - NYC S1b 1946

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See the Tail Ends here.

Cheers,

           - Mike








Great lineup Mike.  Your shelving system is pretty neat also.  Nice sweeping curve.  Glass or plexi?

MC Mike CasatelliOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

Thanks for your kind comments, coach joe. To answer your question, the shelves are glass, and the curves in the corner are 099. Here are a couple of better (for me) pix -

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All for of the room's walls display New York Central equipment. A couple of the subs and the New Haven are also represented. If you're interested, you can find more pix and info starting on page 48 here.

Cheers,

          - Mike

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@mike g. posted:

Hi Paul, just wondering do you think it would really throw real snow? Iam only asking as maybe this summer or up coming fall I hope to work on my out doors line!

Mike;

Sorry for the delay in replying... got caught up in a couple of other projects and just got back down to the trains this afternoon. In looking at the car, I really doubt if the snow thrower car would work for actual snow. First, the blades have very little angle on them, so I doubt if they would be able to grasp any snow. Second, the blades are controlled by an on/off switch and there is no speed adjustment, and the speed, while an interesting feature, is kind of anemic. While there is an adjustable exit chute, there is nothing inside the fan mechanism to direct/force the snow to the chute. Finally, as you can see in the picture of the car, there is a working headlight on the car, just above the blades. The wires powering the light pass directly through the area behind the blades which might result in a short if snow/water were to hit the connection (the blades are driven by a small motor inside the car with a shaft going to the fans).

If you really want to plow snow on your layout, I think one of those angled plows might be a better solution.

Don McErleanDon McErleanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Well here it is, F.E.F.   Today I can come to this posting from a new location.  We have temporarily moved to the east coast to be with my wife's family, so we are in Tybee Island, Ga instead of Waco, Texas.  At least the weather is better here.

So here is my "front end" for today.

Its 1930 and this is an American Flyer "Champion" locomotive.  This was the low end of the American Flyer line as the US moved into the Great Depression.  A lower price set for tough times.  However, this little guy runs like a Champion, has no trouble with his passenger consist.  I must say that I continue to be impressed with the quality of the toys that AF, Lionel, and Marx put out in these early days.  This guy, at 92 years old, arrived at the L&S and with a little lubrication on the gear train, took off with no hesitation and ran perfectly, even the light still works.  You gotta give these manufacturers credit for doing a good job.

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Here he is on the Leonardtown and Savannah pulling his short passenger consist away from the depot.

AF Champion Set - front view of train

Here he is showing off his "Champion" tender.

AF Champion set - loco and tender

Well Happy F.E.F everyone...best wishes for a great weekend.

Don

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Wow, Don McErlean, I like that 92 year old steamer and the beautiful passenger coaches, a tinplate Champion and very colorful passenger cars, the depression was a bad experience as my dad and mother grew up during those days, they were able to survive. As always, I love your history lesson, and I love Tybee island, a cool place. Trumptrain, I love your GG1 Pennsylvania Electric coming into the station, possibly Patsburg, the man directing traffic and the cool docksider locomotive coming onto the bridge, it’s really a neat group of pictures, Detroit, that’s a nice GT swircher, beautiful colors, NYC Fan, those are beautiful steamers in a really neat turntable type scene, and today, here’s my offering... Happy Railroading Everyone 6BCBE019-86C0-4D91-87C4-D2D530E9AA8A1901556F-504F-401F-A713-9B2B9472F120AA705279-80C4-47C8-997C-F4CDFE71CFB5

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Arnold D. CribariArnold D. CribariOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
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Front ends for this fine Friday!IMG_3067IMG_2550IMG_5560fullsizeoutput_607

Patrick, the last photo showing the locomotive coming through the bridge is stunning, and the autumn scenery in it looks very realistic, which is not easy to do, IMO..

Your Autumn scenery work is masterful.

When I first built my layout, I was going to have scenery with Fall colors, but found it too be much more difficult to make it look realistic than various shades of green for Spring and Summer scenery.

Ideally, if I had a much larger layout, I would have vignettes showing scenery for all 4 seasons. Arnold

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@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Patrick, the last photo showing the locomotive coming through the bridge is stunning, and the autumn scenery in it looks very realistic, which is not easy to do, IMO..

Your Autumn scenery work is masterful.

When I first built my layout, I was going to have scenery with Fall colors, but found it too be much more difficult to make it look realistic than various shades of green for Spring and Summer scenery.

Ideally, if I had a much larger layout, I would have vignettes showing scenery for all 4 seasons. Arnold

Arnold - thank you so very much!  I appreciate you kind words.  It's very satisfying when our layout work is recognized and enjoyed by our forum colleagues.  I certainly admire your layout and the depth of fun you have with it as well!

Even when I was a kid I did my best to model fall scenery.  As you know I'm color blind so I don't experience seeing the world as folks who are not color blind.  I do see variation of colors but probably not the way you see them.  

I agree with you in regard to what you said if your layout were bigger you'd like to model all 4 seasons.  ....  IF  my layout were large enough I would love to model all four seasons too ... in succession.   Start with spring at one end with a city named something like Springdale or Springfalls ....  then summer with a town called Summerville , the next section would center around the town of Autumdale..... finally we arrive at Winterburgh or Snow Valley.    I figure a 60 - 80 foot length ought to do it with the entire layout shaped with four peninsulas all connected with a spine which would carry the trains from one season to the next.  The layout would look like the letter E with an extra peninsula for the 4th season. ( The letter E without the extra peninsula would work too .. in this scenario a section of the spine could be one season )  There would be dividers ( walls ) between seasons.  These dividers plus the back wall of each section would have backdrops specific to that section's season.   Tunnels would run through the dividers.    This layout I have imagined vividly for decades ... even before re-entering the hobby 18 years ago.  Over the years I have refined it in my minds eye.  Doing so is part of the fun of this hobby. I mean as kids we all used to imagine our perfect huge layout ... right?

With my current layout, I did give serious thought to modeling my mountain area in a winter scheme.  ( The mountain area base sits about 12 inches above the rest of the layout ... and the mountain rises to just inches from my ceiling.)   Doing  so would be a wonderful setting for my  MTH rotary snow plow and Jordan spreader.   I  still have these thoughts, however, with only 100 square feet I can't seem to get a workable visual in my mind.  I have to first clearly visualize a project in my mind before embarking on the first phase.  A winter scene certainly would not be a problem for my color blindness.  I do see white snow ... lol!  I do think it would be a fun project.  

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Well here we are at F.E.F already.  Good news is that the country appears to be getting back to "normal" whatever that might be and we are rapidly approaching Summer as June is just around the corner.   So here is my contribution for today.

Here is a "Made in US Zone" Germany, locomotive by Konrad Dressler from the 1950's.  Officially "US Zone" ended in 1952 and Allied occupation officially ended in 1955.  Loco is clockwork powered and fully constructed of sheet metal or castings.

Dressler loco front shot

Here he is ready to pull his short consist of coaches, also from "US zone, Germany" made by Heinrich Wimmer (trade mark HWN for Heinrich Wimmer, Nurnberg) also from the 1950's.

Dressler Loco

To show this fellow is also no stranger to a freight job, here he is with a short consist of freight wagons from Mettoty of the UK...same era.  (Collector in me constrained to point out that the car on the flat wagon is a personal add, it did not come from Mettoy all else is original).

Dressler -Mettoy Ltd freight front-side view



Happy F.E.F everyone...happy Memorial Day as well.  Let us all remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice while in the service of our Country.

Don

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Rattler21, that steamers a Wow, Also a beautiful layout, thanks fir posting. What is the manufacture and is it a command operable locomotive? There’s just something about watching a steamer running with a freight or passenger consist, the drive rods moving, Smokin, chuffin, huffin and puffin, and rolling down the track. Wow. I love steamers. Happy Railroading Everyone... 65CAC28F-62F0-4D2A-AA9C-39A7210CA6ED62D143E2-9EF5-4798-886F-59DC82E0D1F86389A54B-B63D-417A-8992-2AFBC0DC0F68AEA5A2AE-C495-40AD-9350-752B0A63D5AD

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RSJB18RSJB18OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
@Don McErlean posted:

Great "front ends" everyone...RSJB18 are the Docksider's Lionel. AF, MTH??? never have found one for my layout but keep looking.   Straphanger, great elevated station, you must have built that yourself, great job.  tnkMarx...looks like you have a 999 with an "open" pilot, LUCKY DUCK!

Best wishes everyone

Don

Don- They are MTH. Nice little buggers...heavy and rock solid conventional runners. Only drawback is that MTH scored the drive wheels for traction. They tend to sound like a broken washing machine running the rails. A recent thread talked about grinding the score marks off. I may try it one day.

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I have three so they can't be all bad.

There's a much nicer model made by a small manufacturer Right of Way Industries.

Bob

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Rattler21, What is the manufacture and is it a command operable locomotive?

Larry, John Smith imported brass models under the Pecos River Brass banner aimed at the two rail market.  The numbers I heard were 150 in two rail and 50 in three rail for each of three versions.  Terrific whistle and bell.  Throttle only, no fancy electronics.  John

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@coach joe posted:

Too many great Front Ends this Friday to comment on them all.  But I will say to Strap Hanger there is way too much New York, New York going on down there in Florida.  Seems like you took a good chunk of the Big Apple and it's suburbs with you when you flew south.

Lol! Too funny coach. You know what they say, you can take the New Yorker out of ny, but you can’t take ny out of the NYer.  It’s all about recreating our youth and those memories on our layouts, at least for me.  And what great memories they were, even the less than rosey ones. I can never see myself moving back, but I wouldn’t trade growing up there for anything (although, the thought of having a big basement again is very enticing).   Arnold Cribari has a nice little saying at the end of all his posts - “In my little world, I leave this troubled world behind”.   If I was to use it, I would modify it slightly to this - “In my little world, I leave all the troubles on my layout”. This includes the indignity of commuting down to Wall Street from Forest Hills and then Woodside every day, LOL!

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@Amfleet25124 posted:

LOL at the bantering between Coach Joe and Strap Hangar.

I took some photos today that I was going to wait until next week to post. I think I will post them tonight when I get back home and stretch Friday a bit into Saturday night.

@Strap Hangar, I didn't realize you were in Florida like myself.

Yep. I’ve been living down here in the land of no basements for quite some time. You must also be in south Florida as well, since you’re a member of the citrus model train society. Tell Ken Sergeant to start up those trains shows over on Flamingo already. It’s been way too long and we all need a train show fix! Also, let Coach Joe know that you’re also building a layout with a partial NY theme (I remember the plan from your layout build thread). Once a NYer......

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Strap Hangar, when the FCMTS train shows start up again, it would be nice to meet you in person.   My other train club, the SFRM is looking at having a train show in November.

So here we go with my one night late entries to Front End Friday.  My O Gauge motive power line up on display including my two RTE sets that arrived in the mail this week, the Hogwarts Express and Polar Express.  This Polar Express RTR set with the snow on the roofs replaces the one that I had before.

So now my realistic Tri-Rail loco is supported by fantasy trains on the left with the Christmas trains (Silver Bell, Polar Express) and on the right by the Halloween trains (Hogwarts, Crusader)

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Definitely, Amfleet. I look forward to it. If not at some future citrus show, maybe at the SFRM event in November. There seems to be a few of us South Floridians on the OGR forum. FECRaildog and another guy (i forget his handle) that posts every so often from Miami come to mind. If we can ever get Bill over at Ready to Roll to emerge from his COVID-induced cocoon and open up the store, we could all meet there on a Saturday. Years ago, a number of us (mostly non ogr forum members) used to do that and shoot the breeze while running some of our wider gauge engines/rolling stock on his store layout.

Nice front end engines. I can imagine how eager you must be to get that layout completed!

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Wow ! F.E.F fans, another great end of the week post.  Lee...you sure do find those great real RR pictures in your driving, neat.. RSJB18 neat Chessie picture and thanks for the response on the Docksider's, will  have to scour the listings for MTH to find one of those, I "really" need one!  tnkMarx, wife and I lived in Dayton from 1970 until 1988 and we used to use the Amtrack "National Limited" that left from Dayton Union Station to go back east...first the train and then the station were taken away...sad days for sure.

Here is an American Flyer "front end" for today.  AF 3110 pulling his 1920's consist out of the terminal station and on to downtown Savannah.  Two coaches and a baggage, must be a mid day low use train!

Flyer 3110 with consist

OK and how did a Great Northern express car get attached to an L&S train...must be some baggage for rich folks boarding the ocean liners at the pier, bound for Europe or South American.  "Savannah Lines" plied all up and down the east coast from NY to Florida.

Flyer 3110 with GN Baggage

Happy Friday, all the best for a happy and healthy weekend

Don

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Picked up two goodies yesterday from Grzyboski’s (the second will have to wait till tomorrow ). Must... stop... ordering... trains... (admit it, we’ve all said it ). In honor of this new addition to my roster, I pulled my set of MPC era PRR 16” aluminum passenger cars off the wall display (the Lionel Limited!!!) - since they hadn’t seen the rails in 25-30 years, spent some time lubing the wheels - video over the weekend.

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Once again I've fallen so far behind there are so many posts I'd like to comment on.

Bob is that the Lionel Chessie GP20?

Patrick that ballast tamper is definitely a unique front end.  Great shot of the Y and you in your jaunty beret.

TedW, a clown shoe never looked so good.

Paul great new engines.  That's one handsome NYC cab engine. 

Amfleet25124Amfleet25124OGR Forum Member

I guess I'm starting off this week's Front end Friday.

Some 1970's Big Apple Front Ends with my treasured R-40 slant purchase from last week along with my trusty Fishbowl buses.

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And with the two cab ends of the R-40's mated together

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Will need to obtain those rare MTH DD-4000005 short couplers so that the subway cars are prototypically spaced apart.  Sacrifice is that the train would be limited to O-42 curves (pull mode) and O-54 curves (push mode) which hampers my abilities to have a 2 track subway line on a 4x8 sheet.

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Apples55Apples55OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
@Amfleet25124 posted:

I guess I'm starting off this week's Front end Friday.

Some 1970's Big Apple Front Ends with my treasured R-40 slant purchase from last week along with my trusty Fishbowl buses.

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And with the two cab ends of the R-40's mated together

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Will need to obtain those rare MTH DD-4000005 short couplers so that the subway cars are prototypically spaced apart.  Sacrifice is that the train would be limited to O-42 curves (pull mode) and O-54 curves (push mode) which hampers my abilities to have a 2 track subway line on a 4x8 sheet.

Fantastic shots, Kevin. I rode many of the slant front R-40’s over the years, and many of those fishbowls. Great memories. Can you tell me where you got the buses (and who made them)??? Thanks.

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@Apples55 posted:

Fantastic shots, Kevin. I rode many of the slant front R-40’s over the years, and many of those fishbowls. Great memories. Can you tell me where you got the buses (and who made them)??? Thanks.

Paul, the fishbowls are 1:43 scale and are made by Iconic Replicas. I have some of their 1:87 scale buses too.  These are sold out so you're best bet will be to get them off eBay like I did.  Iconic Replicas also have another MTA Fishbowl bus in 1:43, the one that the MTA painted white with the blue horizontal stripes.  That is on my "bus to buy" list along with the Greyhound Scenicruiser.

I have to add that during my high school and early college years, I was reckless and rode the subway between the cars many times.  Even entered and exited the trains jumping over the pantograph gates . I look back at myself of 35-40 years ago and shake my head at the stupid things that I did... and thankfully survived.

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Well hello again F.E.F fans.  Great pictures all and I really liked the subway cars from Amfleet25124.  I rode the NYC subways system for years but admit I never noticed the "slant front" ends.  The buses are also really neat.  Rusty and Mike g, neat artwork.  Rusty did I note correctly that you are the artist on your sketch?  Wow...great work.

Well since Kevin started us off with some "electric power" I thought I would follow suit.  Here is the Lionel 256, roughly based on the New Haven "box cab"  electric motors.  This big guy from 1924-1930 was Lionel's largest and most powerful 0 gauge locomotive of the pre war period and the only dual motor locomotive until the F-3 series came along in 1948.  She is large, about the size of the Standard gauge #8.

Lionel 256 front view

Here she is with her consist of 2 # 710 Pullmans and the #712 Observation.

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Well Happy F.E.F everyone...have a great weekend.

Don

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@Amfleet25124 posted:

Paul, the fishbowls are 1:43 scale and are made by Iconic Replicas. I have some of their 1:87 scale buses too.  These are sold out so you're best bet will be to get them off eBay like I did.  Iconic Replicas also have another MTA Fishbowl bus in 1:43, the one that the MTA painted white with the blue horizontal stripes.  That is on my "bus to buy" list along with the Greyhound Scenicruiser.

I have to add that during my high school and early college years, I was reckless and rode the subway between the cars many times.  Even entered and exited the trains jumping over the pantograph gates . I look back at myself of 35-40 years ago and shake my head at the stupid things that I did... and thankfully survived.

Kevin;

Thanks for the info... You are now officially on my bad influence list... just ordered this from Amazon (I think this may be the one on your list!!!)

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I also survived riding between the cars of many a subway (especially when the air conditioning wasn’t working). Ahhhh... to be young and foolish Now I have to look for the one of buses which were being phased out when I was in high school in the early 70’s. Not sure what they were called, but the rear seating ran from just behind the back door, in one long curve, across the rear of the bus, and up the other side. Great seats, but by the time I road them, you usually got horrible engine fumes back there!!! Thanks again.

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@Apples55 posted:

Kevin;

Thanks for the info... You are now officially on my bad influence list... just ordered this from Amazon (I think this may be the one on your list!!!)

I also survived riding between the cars of many a subway (especially when the air conditioning wasn’t working). Ahhhh... to be young and foolish Now I have to look for the one of buses which were being phased out when I was in high school in the early 70’s. Not sure what they were called, but the rear seating ran from just behind the back door, in one long curve, across the rear of the bus, and up the other side. Great seats, but by the time I road them, you usually got horrible engine fumes back there!!! Thanks again.

Paul,

I'm glad to be a bad influence

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Getting this in before the noon hour on the East Coast.

Here are some MOW "Front Ends".  Took these at the Deerfield Beach train station last month of the truck reversing south with a load of ballast.  Some track work was being done a mile or so south of the station and the ballast pile was in the CSX maintenance field just to north side of the station on the other side of Hillsboro Boulevard.  So the truck was doing a shuttle service between the two locations.

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@Amfleet25124 posted:

Getting this in before the noon hour on the East Coast.

Here are some MOW "Front Ends".  Took these at the Deerfield Beach train station last month of the truck reversing south with a load of ballast.  Some track work was being done a mile or so south of the station and the ballast pile was in the CSX maintenance field just to north side of the station on the other side of Hillsboro Boulevard.  So the truck was doing a shuttle service between the two locations.

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Very cool'.. I would have enjoyed seeing them dumping the ballast ... Nice work Kevin'...👍

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Happy FEF!

Something a bit unusual today. We just completed the 30,000 hr service on our 2.0 MW co-gen unit on campus. The prime mover is a 12 cylinder, natural gas fired GE engine. Similar units are in many of the modern diesels running the rails these days.

This is one of the pistons from the unit. (they are about 2' long and 10" diameter)

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Don McErleanDon McErleanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Hi everyone, here we are again in F.E.F and with great pictures already.  Leapinlarry, thank you for your compliment.  I liked the Chessie vs CSX livery on the diesels and that church on your layout that you posted is really magnificent.  Old Bill...a "max gray" locomotive, it has been years since I have seen one and you have one of the most beautiful. I love the Niagara but trying to run a Niagara on my layout is just a dream (way too big) .  Amfleet 25124 your post get the most unusual for today, a rail riding dump truck, well they say there is a prototype for anything (LOL!),  RSJB18 the piston/rod picture is really neat, that must be quite a generator.

My input for today is the American Flyer type 401 (per the number under the cab window) from about 1939 .  All sheet steel with copper and brass trim she is really fancy considering she was not by any stretch the top of the line.  However with a remote reverse and a headlight she did make a good show of herself. This type of engine had a number of variants, for example this one has the number 401 under the cab window but does not have "American Flyer Lines" printed in the square recess near the boiler front.  Other examples I have seen have the flyer lines logo but no cab number.

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Notice the "fancy" 8 wheel tender with brass hand rails.  That is how she came to me, I am not sure if that was her tender from the factory I could never confirm this.

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Her consist, leaving the L&S depot today is one baggage car, one Pullman, and one observation. This set is listed or at least it is implied that this set is set # 301 from 1939 but the reference material I have is somewhat "vague" on this issue.  The enameled  cars were uncatalogued by American Flyer  but are shown in other listings as Baggage #234, Pullman#235 and Observation #236. They do not have a number on the car.

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Well Happy F.E.F folks, have a great weekend.

Don

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@Don McErlean posted:

  RSJB18 the piston/rod picture is really neat, that must be quite a generator.

Don

(To the mods- hope this doesn't get bounced, I know it's a bit off subject but the cool factor is at 11! )

Don- It's quite a beast. About 25' long assembled. Here's some pix taken on rigging day.



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The generator produces 4160v that we step up to 13.2 Kv to feed into our campus grid. For reference 1 MW is enough to power 800 average size homes.

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Well F.E.F fans, its that time again.  Here on the east coast its about 0900 so I guess I will start off.  First, RSJB18, WOW that is some machine!  Quite a monster, thanks for showing it to us...!

My offering today continues my thread of pre-war American Flyer (so called "Chicago Flyer") that pre dates the Gilbert take over and the move to Connecticut.  Here she is, the American Flyer "type X" (by Greenbergs nomenclature) .  She is from 1932-33 and is different in details from the type 401.  Her boiler is die cast vs sheet metal to begin with and her valve gear is much more realistic.  She would likely have been more expensive at the time, an interesting trend as the Depression deepened and we move towards 1932.   A feedwater heater is simulated on the top of the boiler front.  Many of these were made by Worthington Corp ... the home of my first mechanical engineering job!!  The green running board stripe is in fact "factory" and her brass and copper trim sure makes her fancy.

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Well best wishes for a great weekend...that's my F.E.F input for today!

Don

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