Front End Friday

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Ahh ha, it's a Lionel LionMaster Big Boy made for LOTS 40th anniversary.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...nion-pacific-big-boy

Scott

OK... A commemorative number makes sense.

Rusty

Northern Pacific 44 Tonner, Post War Lionel

B&O Diesel Power

PRR B-6 Switcher

@Apples55 posted:

Thanks, Joe. That is a Lionel offering from around 2019. It is an FA cab car. Here is the other end - a C-420. I don’t remember what they called it, but my little consist (including 2 21” passenger cars), is supposed to represent the short trains taking people out to the east end.

Paul, I'm on Long Island for Thanksgiving with the kids.  I was in Trainland Yesterday and saw the FAs up on the wall.  Like I said, I've been out of the new train market for a while and don't even get catalogs any more so I hadn't seen those FAs before. I believe you're talking about the Greenport Scoot.

@coach joe posted:

Paul, I'm on Long Island for Thanksgiving with the kids.  I was in Trainland Yesterday and saw the FAs up on the wall.  Like I said, I've been out of the new train market for a while and don't even get catalogs any more so I hadn't seen those FAs before. I believe you're talking about the Greenport Scoot.

Ding... Ding... Ding... Give that man a cigar It was definitely the Scoot I was thinking of. Read about it somewhere and thought I’d make a short version for my layout. Have a great Thanksgiving, Joe.

P.S. I noticed you didn’t say if you BOUGHT anything in Trainland

Kenny and the boys kept $300 of my money.  A WbB 44 tonner, a Wings of Angels boxcar and some other peripheral items.  I'll post on the What have you bought lately forum when I get home later next week.

FEF, mixing things up from the 9 layouts at this years MUZEO Express.

Steve

@Apples55- K-line made a nice Scoot set too. MP-15 powered unit, 3 coaches, and a dummy PA on the other. The LIRR used whatever they had available at the time so the C-liner works too.
@coach joe- I have one of the new WbB 44's in Pennsy. They are very nice locos. Just be careful handling it, the hand rails are very fragile.

Happy FEF!

The above-mentioned K-line set

Bob, I've had one of the PRR 44 tonners since they first came out.  And yes I broke one of the handrails putting it back in the box after using it.  I picked up the CN one because it was $129.  Both are destined for rebranding to another road.

PA at rest...

Happy FEF

Fendermain

Well good morning F.E.F. fans, Great pictures all especially since most of us are recovering from too much Turkey! 

My offering today is very humble, it is one of the early Lionel MPC offerings from 1973-74 a simple plastic steam engine that came with a A.T.S.F. slope back tender.  However my operating pictures of this guy will have a (Marx) NYC tender as his original SFe tender is just beyond repair.

Here he is with his original Lionel Tender.  By the way, at 48 years old, this guy still works fine and can pull small trains around my mostly flat layout.

Here he is with his "substitute" Marx tender.  By the way, note the strong similarity in the plastic casting between the Lionel slope back tender of the 1970's and the Marx slope back tender of about the same vintage.  Could they have been trading parts?

Here he is pulling my "air defense" train, complete with missile launching car and a flat full of spare missiles.

Well I hope everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving, if you are driving home please be careful today is one of the most heavy traffic days of the year.  Best wishes ... and ON TO CHRISTMAS

Don

End of the front kind for this fine Friday!

FEF Santa Fe F3's.

Happy Railroading! I better get to work on the expansions and get a little scenery going.

The Lionel E7 is a good looking diesel, but the pilot is wrong.  Looks like it came off their E6.

Checked Lionel's parts and no replacement I could find.  Thought about the E8, but nothing there either.  So I bought the one for their F3, but the hole pattern is wrong.  Still looking at how to make it work.

Happy Friday everyone! I Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful holiday weekend!

Happy Late Front end Friday! Here is an oldie, but a goodie -

Hope everybody had a Happy Thanksgiving! My wife's getting ready to heat up some leftovers - one of the best parts of Thanksgiving.

Postwar, MPC, and modern LionChief® Plus are all happily at work for the long weekend.

Here’s a triple threat of some of my Postwar favorites poised on Super O track.

" FOOD COMA "  ( coined on the forum by Bob / RSJB18 )  has slowed me down from getting on the past FEF.     So here goes ......MTH RK dash 8 with all lights updated to LEDs.   6 of them facing forward.

Rich - I love the Postwar - and I covet that beautiful Super "0" track!

Here's a couple of my favorites!

CR #4800 by Williams. #4800 was the only CR GG1 to get blue paint.

Happy FEF!

Happy Friday everyone enjoy your weekend.

Rusty

Happy Front end Friday!  Here is the front end of my MTA work train. Its an NW-2 switcher -

Have a Great Friday! Lionel 6-8754 Pennsy was a New Haven Thank a Vet!

Can't believe it is FEF already!

Well good morning F.E.F fans, I can see we have a great start today.  Here is the Lionel 256 from 1924 - 1930.  This is about the largest locomotive in 0 gauge I have, larger than my Std Gauge #8.  Twin motored and the only twin motored 0 gauge loco Lionel made until the F-3's in 1948.

Here he is with his train of 710 Pullman's and 712 observation.  NYC cars from 1924-1934

Happy Friday everyone...hope you have a great weekend.

Don

The "Chief" pulls in for the early evening travelers...

@Don McErlean posted:

Well good morning F.E.F fans, I can see we have a great start today.  Here is the Lionel 256 from 1924 - 1930.  This is about the largest locomotive in 0 gauge I have, larger than my Std Gauge #8.  Twin motored and the only twin motored 0 gauge loco Lionel made until the F-3's in 1948.

Here he is with his train of 710 Pullman's and 712 observation.  NYC cars from 1924-1934

Happy Friday everyone...hope you have a great weekend.

Don

Awesome, Don!

Here is my red MTH Repro to go with your orange -

Here’s a K-Line GG1 rounding a curve, and not disturbing a fellow heading for the hobo camp.

Here are a few:

FEF
This gray LCT 392 looks fabulous pulling a Flyer Presidential outfit.

Steve

Here's my contribution for FEF. Lionel Legacy SD70Ace.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well good morning F.E.F fans, I can see we have a great start today.  Here is the Lionel 256 from 1924 - 1930.  This is about the largest locomotive in 0 gauge I have, larger than my Std Gauge #8.  Twin motored and the only twin motored 0 gauge loco Lionel made until the F-3's in 1948.

Here he is with his train of 710 Pullman's and 712 observation.  NYC cars from 1924-1934

Happy Friday everyone...hope you have a great weekend.

Don

You always come up with the most interesting stuff Don. To a young (53yrs old) whippersnapper you are a Asset to the forum

Transition era.

Western Maryland and MARC F units at B &O Museum in Baltimore.

Lee:  Thank you for the compliment.  I am glad everyone enjoys the posts that I make.

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Lee:  Thank you for the compliment.  I am glad everyone enjoys the posts that I make.

Don

We would be lost with out you Don at lease I would.

@trumptrain posted:

Western Maryland and MARC F units at B &O Museum in Baltimore.

Patrick, thanks for posting these photos, I can never get enough of EMD Covered Wagons and the many different railroads they were on!!

@trumptrain posted:

Western Maryland and MARC F units at B &O Museum in Baltimore.

All the auto manufacturers have made new models of classic muscle cars from the 60's and 70's. Wouldn't it be nice if the RR's followed?

Hey- I guy can dream can't he?

@Don McErlean posted:

Well good morning F.E.F fans, I can see we have a great start today.  Here is the Lionel 256 from 1924 - 1930.  This is about the largest locomotive in 0 gauge I have, larger than my Std Gauge #8.  Twin motored and the only twin motored 0 gauge loco Lionel made until the F-3's in 1948.

Here he is with his train of 710 Pullman's and 712 observation.  NYC cars from 1924-1934

Happy Friday everyone...hope you have a great weekend.

Don

Don,

What a handsome set.  I love the 256!

Fendermain...John

Yes, I am 2 days late and several dollars short for FEF, but hopefully, better late than never?

My Weaver, PRR, 3-rail brass, O gauge 4-6-0 steam locomotive and tender on the display track at Harry Hieke's studio in New Jersey after receiving a GREAT weathering treatment by the master.

My Weaver, PRR, 3-rail brass, O gauge 2-8-0 steam locomotive and tender also was equally impressive after being masterfully weathered though I have no photo of it.

After weathering was complete, both locomotives were converted to MTH Proto-Sound 3 by a skilled MTH technician at a shop in Gaithersburg, Maryland and run beautifully. Thanks to all for your artistry and skill. Bravo, gentlemen!

Fendermain / Johh : Thank you for the complement on my 256.   That was an acquisition, OK'd by my long suffering wife of 54 years, at the last train show we attended prior to the COVID shutdown, nearly 2 years ago now.  Dallas area train shows are just beginning to return.  It was a big purchase for me, but I am pleased to say that after a very modest tune up and lube job she runs like a champ.  The pulling power of 2 motors plus the weight of her size gives her quite a capacity in train length.

Don

@Randy Harrison posted:

Yes, I am 2 days late and several dollars short for FEF, but hopefully, better late than never?

My Weaver, PRR, 3-rail brass, O gauge 4-6-0 steam locomotive and tender on the display track at Harry Hieke's studio in New Jersey after receiving a GREAT weathering treatment by the master.

My Weaver, PRR, 3-rail brass, O gauge 2-8-0 steam locomotive and tender also on the display track at Harry Hieke's studio after being masterfully weathered.

After weathering was complete, both locomotives were converted to MTH Proto-Sound 3 by a skilled MTH technician at a shop in Gaithersburg, Maryland and run beautifully. Thanks to all for your artistry and skill. Bravo, gentlemen!

Expert weathering  AND  Proto-Sound  3  Randy  !?!.............nice .

.........I live in envy.

...

Sorry for being late as well. Here are a couple of shots I got on a friend’s layout after being ballasted.

From yesterday's run at Lee Hall Depot's freight room on the club's traveling layout:

The Depot is a restored 1881 station, so C&O equipment was the theme.  In the center is Ed's K-Line lead F units pulling the streamliners.  On the left is Murf's F-19 with the heavyweights.  And to the right is Ed's CW44-9 with a mixed freight.

PRR M1a by Lionel.

Well here it is, Friday again!!  Looks like I get to start us off this fine day!  Its unusual for December here in Texas, believe it or not its going to be sunny and in the 80's today!  Maybe I will go in the pool today...(yea right! )  Well since I am starting off and I am just below Pingman's marvelous C&O cab units from last week, I will continue with my Wabash cab units.  These are the Lionel # 2240 Wabash AB from 1956.  I apologize in advance, these guys do show a bit of their 66 years of age and play but they still work and haul trains with ease around my little layout.

Here is the F.E.F view - a few scratches but still working his train.  To some extent, like most of the real RR engines I see.

Here he is in a track side shot, moving through the industrial part of town.  Just because of the collector in me, I should note that the dual signal mast is pre war American Flyer as is the "Danger Crossing" sign.  The crossing gate is pre-war Marx.

Just as he is leaving the Depot with his train, he encounters some strange fellow who claims to be from the North Pole and wants a ride...but alas no ticket!

Best wishes to all and hope you have a great weekend...

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

These are the Lionel # 2240 Wabash AB from 1956.  I apologize in advance, these guys do show a bit of their 66 years of age and play but they still work and haul trains with ease around my little layout.

Here is the F.E.F view - a few scratches but still working his train.  To some extent, like most of the real RR engines I see.

Best wishes to all and hope you have a great weekend...

Don

Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'...

Rusty

Here is my end of the front kind for this fine Friday!

Big storm is forecast, the CN Mountain steamer can handle it...

Happy FEF!

A shot of some Santa Fe power. I saw that Menards released version 2.0 of their F7. The new batch sold out as quickly as the first set.

Caught this F3 passing between an express train and a car on the public track.

F3 is 3rd Rail, B60 is Weaver, outside braced boxcar is Atlas.

Fef

@Capetrainman posted:

Big storm is forecast, the CN Mountain steamer can handle it...

Capetrainman -  Fabulous effects!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!

@Ron H posted:

I've always admired this clip Ron. Any chance of refilming with a better phone/camera? Our younger members and newcomers are not familiar with what they are seeing here. Your PA's are fantastic and need to be showcased more!

MTH diesels in HO this time. The F7 'Yellowbonnets' are loaded with detail and have the stainless sides that add so much while the UP PA's have smoke - some of the few smoking diesels in HO that had that feature 10 years ago!

Wow, Paul, you’ve mastered the snow effects! Great shot!

Today on the Prewar layout we were getting ourselves ready for the upcoming Christmas season by trying on our holiday wreaths.

Here's a photo of the Polar Express for Front end Friday, but wait, that's not a Berkshire! Major upgrade to the PE train, it's now being pulled by a UP Big Boy #4006 because the Berkshire #1225 is in the shop!! You know, the Big Boy looks pretty awesome pulling the Polar Express train. :-)

Note: this is a LionMaster BB.

Happy Holidays!

Not my best photo, but the best one of the front.  NJT U34CH (Sort of):

Another front end for Friday:

@GG1 4877 posted:

Another front end for Friday:

Very cool looking, tons of detail, I like it. Is it all brass?

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Very cool looking, tons of detail, I like it. Is it all brass?

Scott,

Yes.  This is a Sunset 2 rail brass model of the PRR DD1.  I purchased from another forum member who knows I model the PRR in 2 rail.  The shame with brass models is that they are pretty un-painted, but eventually I'll be painting it. 

@c.sam posted:

I've always admired this clip Ron. Any chance of refilming with a better phone/camera? Our younger members and newcomers are not familiar with what they are seeing here. Your PA's are fantastic and need to be showcased more!

Sam, will do in a couple of days.

Thanks,

Ron

The new Legacy D&H PA’s on the near track and the TMCC version from around 2003 on the far track.

Poor picture. Unboxed the Lionel H0 Nickel Plate freight set last night to test it out. Already boxed back up and going back to Amazon.

Steve

A PRR decapod.

B&O Pacific.

Southern Pacific cab-forward.

GP9 front end slowly coming atcha.

Front End Friday

Lionel’s ATSF NW2 on my 4’ x 4’ layout. Happy FEF!!

Nice shot trumptrain, another shot well done I tip my beer to you.

@trumptrain posted:

GP9 front end slowly coming atcha.

Nice pictures everyone.  GG1 4877 The PRR DD1 is really super detail.  Randy - beautiful locomotives.  Patrick - great video of the B&O freight.  Apples 55 - beautiful Santa Fe PA's.  Steve - your post peaked my curiosity. First you don't normally post anything in HO and then you stated you were returning the set.  Candidly the video looked good, I just wondered what didn't you like about the set?

Finally, a request...WP do you have any more pictures of your 4X4 layout.  I am trying to plan such a small layout for the porch of the cottage we use for summer vacations.  It would be a perfect size so I wondered about the track plan and such.  I noted, at least I think I noted, that you were using Marx track (the sleepers appear to be Marx).  Did you have a specific reason for that choice or was it just that it was handy.

Thanks everyone, really enjoyed your pictures.

Don

Hi Don: My original plan was to have an oval with a passing siding and two stub sidings, one coming off the mainline and one coming off the passing siding. I could park a short train on the stub siding in the back of the layout and maybe an engine on the other siding. Or a short train on the passing siding. It gave several possibilities. I used my original pair of Lionel 027 switches that I got for Xmas the year after I got the 1615 set, and I bought 2 more of them. I used Lionel 027 track from my original set and also from other eras that I had picked up here and there.
The track plan worked fine, but then I had the idea that if I shortened the stub siding that comes off the passing siding, I could add a switch to the longer stub siding and make it a passing siding that could also hold a parked train or be used as another route. So that is the way it is now. It’s a fun little layout.

WP Thanks that's really helpful.  Appreciate your response.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

WP Thanks that's really helpful.  Appreciate your response.

Best Wishes

Don

You are very welcome!

MTH Dash 8   with fixed pilot, scale couplers, and lightly weathered.

@Don McErlean posted:

  Steve - your post peaked my curiosity. First you don't normally post anything in HO and then you stated you were returning the set.  Candidly the video looked good, I just wondered what didn't you like about the set?

Thanks everyone, really enjoyed your pictures.

Don

Don, the magnetic track these come with is a brilliant idea with an absolutely horrible execution. Rail alignment is awful so many derailments. Also it has no tolerance for a even very slight surface variation. This part i knew ahead of time. My big issue is the sound. If you listen on those occasions I can get it to go a few laps, you will note it is in idle mode most of the time no matter the speed. There will be an occasional flurry of chuffing, bust mostly idling. I can replace the track with something else, but I want the loco to work and sound correctly. I am returning it, a replacement set is on the way.

Steve

Steve. Thanks for the info.  Good to know as I was considering a similar set for our tree. Obviously am reconsidering this choice.

Don

Happy FEF

Steve

Rusty

Staten Island Rapid Transit  29 leads a 'roustabout' (SIRT local freight) back to Edgewater Yard.  The Class D 0-6-0 camelback was built from a heavily modified Locomotive Workshop kit in 1990.  The first three cars behind it are:

A Walthers two bay hopper in Reading livery, orignally built from a kit in 1954.

A scratch built  B&O Class N-43  wagontop covered hopper done in 1985.

And a C&O 40' ARA box car built in 2000 from Scale Model Railways cast aluminum parts made in 1937.

A fellow o scale modeler sent me five castings (a roof, two sides and a pair of ends)  to see what I could do with them. A scratch-built floor and detaild underframe did the job.

A wild mix of equipment origins and ages, running great together, which has always been the goal for NMRA standards in model raliroading.

S. Islander

Happy FEF

Thank Gosh its Friday.  Better yet, its FEF!  Here is the front end of an R-17 train running on the #5 line pulling into a station -

Happy FEF!

My new Williams Rutland 70 ton diesel rounding the bend on the high line.

Happy Front end Friday! Postwar Lionel 2065 and MTH Steamer pulling Blue Comet Passengers.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS - HAPPY FEF!

Hello everyone...its F.E.F again and now just a week before Christmas.  Best wishes for a wonderful Holiday to all.

What I have for today is the Marx M10000 in one of its later color schemes.  In this case, green and cream, from 1936-37.

Here is the F.E.F view, terribly out of scale headlight but I like the two crew members you can see through the windshield.

Here is a front quarter view, showing a bit more of the power car which also contained an RPO

Here is a view showing the tail car.  The full train, too long for my display shelf, has two other coaches and makes quite a "snake" running around corners.

Best wishes for a great weekend and a super Holiday season

Don

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!!

Beautiful pictures everyone, from oldies to the newbies, all making this thread fun to review. As Don McErlean says, and I second the thought, Happy Holidays to all and may your Christmas Season be Merry and bright. Happy Railroading Everyone.

Happy Holidays Members! Here's a very dusty LionMaster Big Boy with the duty of pulling the Polar Express while the Berkshire is in the shop! I'm thinking of putting a Polar Express banner on the tender. ;-) But first a little "low pressure" compressed air with ionizer to blow the dust off.

Happy FEF & Christmas eve!

Rusty

Happy FEF! and Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas all!

Merry Christmas everyone for this holiday prewar FEF.

Well Rich Wiemann - I'm with you today...continuing the pre-war F.E.F inputs.  But first, let me wish everyone the Happiest of Holidays / Merriest of Christmas's on this Holiday Eve !!  Today I have an old warrior, from 1926-27, 95 years old this Holiday season and still capable of pulling his trains around my layout.  I hope that at 95 I am still even close to being that functional - Lionel did make some high quality products for sure.

Here he is in his Holiday "green" actually Lionel called it "olive".  Hard to tell in this picture, but he is not all that big - one of the smaller line of engines for those days just a little longer than the 248 box cab.  Similar in size to Rich's 259 (w/o tender) and 253.

Here is the F.E.F. shot, although what end is the front could  be very debatable

Here is the other end (rear?) with the pantograph vice the direction switch (manual reverse).

Again, best wishes everyone for a very merry Holiday tomorrow

Don

A Merry Christmas front end for this fine Friday December 24, 2021!  

Seemed the right time to post this one again, with a snow storm raging this time at the "Charles Street Yard" and out my window...Merry Christmas to all!

Merry Christmas

@trumptrain posted:

A Merry Christmas front end for this fine Friday December 24, 2021!  

Patrick...great scene with the dusting of snow...hopefully the crew will be off-duty pretty soon to begin their holiday...Merry Christmas and thank you for your contributions here this year...

If this headlight was red, it would rival Rudolf's nose for sure!

Lionel No.42 NYC twin motored standard gauge locomotive from 1921

@c.sam posted:

If this headlight was red, it would rival Rudolf's nose for sure!

Lionel No.12 NYC twin motored standard gauge locomotive from 1921

C.Sam you’re absolutely correct…I will have to remember that for next year….heck I’m going upstairs now to make some changes before the grandkids arrive.

A Ives Yankee Clipper emerges from the south tunnel.

Steve

Great photos everyone, and Paul I love the snow effect! Now if I can find someone else to figure out the shoveling effect for me I would have it made! LOL

Wow, here we are, on Christmas Eve, 2021, and hopefully Santa will stop by our homes in the wee hours of the Night and leave some sort of train item for us to remember this unimaginable year, and take care of all of the folks in harms way, Tornados, Floods, Fires, auto incidents, friends passing away, those finding Cures, simply Life. Front End Friday is a wonderful thread and all of the pictures above represent how we share the Best Hobby in the World, model railroading. Merry Christmas Everyone and may you stay healthy, stay safe, and have a wonderful 2022. Don McErlean, you need a light bulb for that beautiful olive green diesel, Santa might leave you one…. Happy Railroading Everyone

@leapinlarry posted:

Wow, here we are, on Christmas Eve, 2021, and hopefully Santa will stop by our homes in the wee hours of the Night and leave some sort of train item for us to remember this unimaginable year, and take care of all of the folks in harms way, Tornados, Floods, Fires, auto incidents, friends passing away, those finding Cures, simply Life. Front End Friday is a wonderful thread and all of the pictures above represent how we share the Best Hobby in the World, model railroading. Merry Christmas Everyone and may you stay healthy, stay safe, and have a wonderful 2022. Don McErlean, you need a light bulb for that beautiful olive green diesel, Santa might leave you one…. Happy Railroading Everyone

Larry, what great photos! I always love to see pictures of your layout! Oh by the way you forgot SNOW! LOL

If Santa does leave me some train items, I hope it's some 072-curve track so I can finish my upper loop! LOL

Everyone please be safe and have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!

HAPPY  CHRISTMAS  EVE ........ and .......a HAPPY  FEF.

...........may all of you have a PEACEFUL CHRISTMAS.

( try to keep the volume down on those trains )

Happy FEF - Christmas Edition - Everyone!

FEF with WP 485 GS-64, SP Daylight 4415 GS-2, and SF WarBonnet F3 AA #18 ready to roll out on Christmas Eve and pickup their consists. :-)

Happy Holidays and wishing you all good health!

Happy Front End Friday and Christmas eve.

Here is the front end of my 3rd Rail Brill 660.  These GEG415 Doodlebugs initially has gas engines, but due to a late 30s fire causing a lot of deaths, the Penny switched over to diesel and renamed them OEG415.  My 3rd Rail model is neat in that the engine sound is diesel and fits into my late 40s themed layout.

@Capetrainman posted:

Patrick...great scene with the dusting of snow...hopefully the crew will be off-duty pretty soon to begin their holiday...Merry Christmas and thank you for your contributions here this year...

Thank you so much Paul!!  The crew is now off duty and at their respective homes enjoying egg nog, wassail, extraordinary food, and fun times with family and friends.  

Merry Christmas to you and yours!!

A Christmas Arrival -

Cheers,

- Mike

@RSJB18 posted:

Happy FEF! and Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Bob... hope you and your son are on the mend 🎄🎅🏻🎄

@Apples55 posted:

Merry Christmas, Bob... hope you and your son are on the mend 🎄🎅🏻🎄

Thanks Paul. We are both doing better. The CEO is down now and my daughter's got something going too. Been a big fat COVID CHRISTMAS!

@RSJB18 posted:

Thanks Paul. We are both doing better. The CEO is down now and my daughter's got something going too. Been a big fat COVID CHRISTMAS!

Nice looking Grinch Bob.

Well if this is going through the entire family  NOW , all I can figure is New Years Day should be the opening of a great NEW YEAR for all of you being healthy and hale.

Until then, to you and  your's , be happy and safe .

RSJB18-Here's hoping that you and your family are doing better and wishing you and everyone a very Happy and Healthy New Year.

Get well soon

Don

Happy end of the year FEF!

Happy  Front end to 2022!

A pair of Marx 333 locos.

Happy FEF and have a great New Year Eve!

This is my Prewar Lionel 253 needs new wheels, and lights to be put on.