Front end Friday.....

MTH 3 rail-scaled Santa Fe on Steve Maier's beautiful layout

Ends of the front kind.

GMO

Streamliners!   Key Imports PRR K4s 3768, super rare Penn Line Reading Crusader,.......and, ummmm, Varney Generic Streamliner

The BN U-30C in the barn at IRM last Saturday evening.

Good evening here is a couple of engines that are in a stone quarry I am working at this week

SIRT posted:

GMO

 

Love it, Steve!! You always do a fantastic job of weathering!!  I have always liked that GM&O livery.  The first picture I saw of it was in black and white and the lower black paint was quite dirty so I did not think it was black but imagined it was maroon for sometime.  I was a little disappointed when I saw it in color picture.

Larry

Thanks Larry. 

I had a hard time liking this one because I kept wanting to paint it blue grey as the real photo shows. Also no white stripe on it either. But for 47 bucks, you get the version MTH has presented me with. It would not be cost effective to do otherwise.

The customer sent me a different photo to use.

Maybe there were other schemes on these diesels, not sure if MTH was correct? I still have to question the black color used on the MTH.

Grandson checking out the front end of his Lionel 0-8-0 switch engine.

Two new (to my layout) BNSF engines.

My favorite power unit I own 

Happy & Safe Railroading!

Rusty

Happy Friday!

FEF 10/5/18

So C&O #1601 recently returned from the repair shop.  An interesting development however during the repair.  “Concord, we have a problem”. 

The "other" end.

briansilvermustang posted:

 

                      hhmmmm...  seems to match the real one Ted...?

Huh?  Whuuut?     Here’s a shot from last October when purchased, and what went in for repairs. Anybody??   It’s being made right as we speak.  

Regards the C&O engine it now has two different numbers 1601 1604???

TED, just make a few more 1601's and 1604's and you can have another locomotive! lol .. I do wonder how the one making the repairs didn't notice the number difference?

Rusty

Diverging Clear posted:

TED, just make a few more 1601's and 1604's and you can have another locomotive! lol .. I do wonder how the one making the repairs didn't notice the number difference?

Rusty

I think Brian showed them the prototype and away they went!  

Happy FEF

My contribution to Front End Friday.....

Happy FEF !
B&O E7 A-B-A running at track speed. 
Originally Williams, now TMCC +ERR equipped.

Anyone know anything about that New Haven RDC Brian posted?

coach joe posted:

Anyone know anything about that New Haven RDC Brian posted?

Basically a custom built RDC train by Budd for the New Haven Roger Williams during their dalliance with high speed lightweight trains.  The train consisted of 6 RDC's: the two cab cars and four intermediate RDC's without controls or operator's cabs.

The train was equipped with third rail shoes for operation into Grand Central Terminal.  The cars were compatible with standard RDC's and were mixed in with standard RDC's after the trainset was split up.  Retired in 1980.  Two cabs and one intermediate cars survive.

Rusty

Good evening, a couple of shots from Conpit Pa. last Sunday.

Although it was not on the front end we did see these interesting loads toward the rear of this east bound freight.

Happy FEF

My entry to FEF

Mark, I wonder if the military vehicles were a new delivery or just a move from one base to another.

FL9TURBO02, I always like the EMD demo units too.  Especially the blue and silver of the 50s and 60s.

Good evening Coach Joe, to answer your question I am not sure. 

They looked new but they could have been refurbed and like you said they may have been just being relocated.

Here’s one of my favourite locomotives 

Al

Here's a few front ends that I got pics of the other day.

Rusty

Happy Friday! 

This is one of my favorite. 

My new (to me) MTH NKP 759 Berkshire in the American Railroads (Golden Spike 100th Anniversary) paint scheme with matching passenger cars. This engine was originally a 5-volt PS2 which was upgraded to PS3 and the only changes that I have made were to change out the headlight from a bright white LED and the MARS light from a red LED to now both be golden glow white LED's.

Thanks,

Mat

lee drennen posted:

Happy Friday! 

This is one of my favorite. 

By chance a picture of a water color?

Moving the front to the rear......

PRRronbh posted:

lee drennen posted:

Happy Friday! 

This is one of my favorite. 

By chance a picture of a water color?

I guess 

FEF 10/19/18

    GREAT photos and engines Ted       time for that layout...

Happy FEF

Took this in north St Louis this week 

Passing by the yard.

A Pennsy  brute !

Heres a gooder

Al

albertstrains posted:

Heres a gooder

Al

Nice!!! Have always loved that CP livery.

Rusty

Took this yesterday down at the river front in St. Louis 

Happy FEF!

NYS&W

A pic of my PRR Consolidations.  Weaver H10 on left and 3rd Rail H6sb on right.

Both have been upgraded with ERR and gunrunnerjohn electronics by forum member Alex_M. Needless to say, the H6 was a challenge for Alex but he got it all in.

just in......

Peter

FEF

FEF    Fendermain

Omaha Road FM H-16-66 in the early car body.

Happy FEF!

Al

She may not be a train but she still has a front end. I wish I would've gotten a front shot of the real one, but here is a model of the USS Wisconsin at the USS Wisconsin Museum in Norfolk. 

That’s a good looking front end Brian...  

Switching a few grain covered hoppers.

For you Postwar Steam lovers.

Good evening, this is the Amtrak head engine on last weeks JAHA ( Johnstown Area Hertridge Association ) ride from Johnstown to Altoona and then returning later in the afternoon early evening.

Once again, not a train front end, but a front end nonetheless!

Happy Friday. Patriot Railroad early morning switching 

Front ends

1950s era FEF

Pennsy FEF

Big Mack 

FEF!

       WOW !    that is cool

Whoever carved that has WAYYYY to much free time. The points on my carpenters pencils never looked that good

Happy Front End Black Friday!

Good afternoon, here are a couple of front end photo's I took on the IUP Museum 2018 Train Display.

Have a good Friday 

The colors of some of the trains and scenery in the above photos are striking.

The Commodore!

Rusty

c.sam posted:

The Commodore!

Beautiful engine, Sam. I have the black Commodore in my collection (the “Darth Vader” version!!!).

Rusty Traque posted:

Rusty

Here's some front end's on my new layout.  Azgary

We have just finished the new train room in the basement,  I did set up a temporary layout until I can get a permanent one decided.  So the Rock Island 2031 was the one with honors for the first run. 

FEF 11/30/18  one of my favorites...

This was an NS engine tied up in Blairsville PA.

This train was sitting on the siding that leads to Rosebud Mining Coal dump.

Took this in De Soto Mo early this fall in town 

B&O front end.

Looks like someone had lots of time on their hands to stripe those KCS handrails like that.

I had no idea the Presidential seal on 4141 was a plaque, not a decal.

Happy FEF!

This could be the front end sometimes right? 

Absolutely!

RSJB18 posted:

Is the President actually aboard, or is that photo-shopped?

FrankM

Moonson posted:

RSJB18 posted:

Is the President actually aboard, or is that photo-shopped?

FrankM

CNN: "President George H.W. Bush in the cab of the Bush 4141 locomotive at its unveiling in 2005."

Rusty

Thank you, Rusty.

FrankM

I heard a story on NPR the other day that George H.W. Bush was given the chance to drive the 4141 for 2 miles. I thought that was really cool. 

Good morning, this photo is of a RJ Corman train heading from Clearfield PA Yard to Cresson PA with a string of grain cars. 

The third unit was running a bit rich in the cold air which is the white smoke in the background.

Have a great front end Friday !!!!!

Happy FEF!

Pretty faces all!

Well, maybe almost all  :-) 

...and every one of them an enjoyable visage to see, C. Sam.

        Happy "FEF" holiday edition... have a very Merry Christmas everyone

Good morning this is the boiler front from Pennsy K4 1361 at the Altoona Railroaders Musuem this past fall.

The headlight is sitting on a pellet along with a the steam generator.                                                                                                The primer colored item is the light off the rear of the tender.

Merry Christmas !