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Front end Friday.....

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briansilvermustang posted:

      

          great photo Lew !!   my favorite RR...  when growing up,  we used to take my

  grandma down to the train station to catch a train to Baltimore, where my Dad, grandma

  and grandpa are from...

My Grandparents' house was beside the Pittsburgh-Buffalo line (previously BR&P) and I watched a lot of Covered Wagons there working the Southbound grade up from the Allegheny River. Most freights had a pair of F7 As pushing the crummy hard. I can still hear the bellow of those 567s in notch 8.

Lew

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geysergazer posted:

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A Fall Foliage Special ready to pull out of the old B&O station in Pittsburgh bound for Meyersdale, Pa. My Sis and her friend admiring #241. Lookit' the polished paint! Circa 1958.

Lew

And I just noticed this on the Train Room wall:

 

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So #241 was the lead unit Eastbound in the morning. Here we are in the afternoon Westbound down the the long grade towards Pittsburgh with #241 trailing. SOP for B&O excursions was an open gondola.

Lew

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Randy HarrisonRandy HarrisonOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Front end Friday on Saturday Evening? Well, better late than never.

A southbound PRR P5a box cab electric locomotive leaves Penn Station, New York City with a mail train.

Box Cab New York

#5809 and two other units whose numbers are not visible, Birmingham, PA 4-16-1966

#5809 and two other units whose numbers are not visible Birmingham PA 4-16-66

Built in 1928, a K-4s Pennsylvania locomotive pulling into Red Bank, New Jersey railroad station 1952

Built in 1928, a K-4s Pennsylvania locomotive pulling into Red Bank, New Jersey railroad station 1952

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Now, tell me something, my fellow model train hobbyists, is that photo by our man BAR GP7 #63, a layout shot, or are we seeing thatview through the eye of a drone flying over a real-life scene (!!!!!!!!!!!) Eh? Huh? Huh? WOW!!!!

You are really good at very, very realistic modeling, sir!!!!!!!In fact, you are an inspiration.

FrankM

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Well, Johan, if you are going to suggest we are experiencing a mutual-admiration-society, then, I'm just going to have to co-operate and agree that it is nice we find something we like in each other's work. It's all great fun, both the crafting of layout scenes and receiving the approval. And I much enjoy seeing the work of so many other fellow modelers, too, through this forum and OGR magazine,

Add to that getting "Likes" from other fellow-posters on this forum, and the whole experience of posting and attending these pages continues to be a real pleasure.

Thank you, again, for your being so generous about my little scenes.

FrankM

P.S. And in the spirit of Front End Friday sharing, I wonder if this locomotiveIMG_0885 in this scene on my layout is a model of the one seen in the posting, just above, shown to us by STEAMER (?)

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Apples55Apples55OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
Randy Harrison posted:

Front end Friday on Saturday Evening? Well, better late than never.

A southbound PRR P5a box cab electric locomotive leaves Penn Station, New York City with a mail train.

Built in 1928, a K-4s Pennsylvania locomotive pulling into Red Bank, New Jersey railroad station 1952

Great collection, Randy. Pennsy is one of my favorite roads, and I love their steamers... but there is something incredibly appealing about those box cabs. Thanks for sharing.

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Moonson posted:

Well, Johan, if you are going to suggest we are experiencing a mutual-admiration-society, then, I'm just going to have to co-operate and agree that it is nice we find something we like in each other's work. It's all great fun, both the crafting of layout scenes and receiving the approval. And I much enjoy seeing the work of so many other fellow modelers, too, through this forum and OGR magazine,

Add to that getting "Likes" from other fellow-posters on this forum, and the whole experience of posting and attending these pages continues to be a real pleasure.

Thank you, again, for your being so generous about my little scenes.

FrankM

P.S. And in the spirit of Front End Friday sharing, I wonder if this locomotiveIMG_0885 in this scene on my layout is a model of the one seen in the posting, just above, shown to us by STEAMER (?)

FrankM: Thank you. I agree, there is a lot some great work of so many other fellow modelers. I have tell this earlier: Many years i almost ending my hobby, because many things not feeling so right. But then i found an American trains and specially Bangor & Aroostook R.R. and this great forum with a wonderful people. Now i have also our Shark Bay R.R. and things going better than ever. So, i like to say: thank you to all people on this great forum.

Johan

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Pennsy Power on the Great Northeastern Railway

Pennsy Power Cropped

PRR K4s through a nighttime snow storm.

K4-s through the snow

C&O Allegheny with a long box car train.

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Meanwhile, on the Island of Sodor......

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And, back to reality, PRR 5495 and PRSL AS16 basking in the sun at Cold Spring Harbor, NJ

5495 and AS16 basking in the sun at Cold Spring Harbor

An early, E-3, Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines Atlantic on the Atlantic City, NJ, turntable.

Old PRSL Atlantic

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Bill T posted:
Apples55 posted:
Bill T posted:

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Wow... gotta ask, Bill - are all of those F’s powered??? Looks like an ABAB-something!!! And what were you pulling that required that much power???

Not all powered, the ABABA F units are from Lionel many years ago. 2 powered A's, 2 B's with sound, and 1 unpowered A.

Thanks Bill. That is a very impressive (and, I assume, noisy) “lash up”!!!

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AGHRMATT, nice pictures, wow, neat layout, nice Diesels and beautiful steamers, Randy Harrison, I love the pictures you post, and just keep them coming. CBS072 I love the BNSF, nice pictures, Geysergazer, great Big Blow,

geysergazer posted:

Big Blow coming at you!

        Big Blow

According to the wiki-thingy the UP turbines all made it over 1,000,000mi. At one point 10% of UP freight trains were being pulled by these monsters. 

Lew

This is a great thread, so many great scenes....We couldn’t do this in the 1950’s..Happy Railroading 

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cpowell posted:

Here are some Western Maryland favorites. I took the WM #734 & the black #501 photos back in 2009.

The red/white/black #501 diesel was taken in 2017.

Charlie

Frostburg-Stop-3

TurnTable-05

WMD-GP30-2

WMSR2-09

Deal, Pa in 1998.

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Sorry for the poor pic quality. I took it with a Kodak "1.0 megapixel" newfangled digital camera. To Dad's right is the foundation for the East end signal for Deal Tower/station. In the background left is the foundation for the West end signal at Deal. The station/tower was where that brush on the left is now. Deal was the actual summit. Savage Tunnel was uphill the whole way from East to West.

Lew

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geysergazergeysergazerOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

Happy F. E. F. !

A repeat but fleshed out a bit. This is The Park Special, #47-48 idling at Victor, Id, the end of the branch from Pocatello:

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I thought to consult my 1962 UP timetable:

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The Park Special departed Pocatello at 12:55AM and arrived in Victor at 7:30AM. The train idled all day and departed Victor at 8:15PM arriving back in Pocatello at 2:05Am.

We took that ride Summer '61, '62, '63 and '64, IIRC Pullman each trip. Rental car was waiting in Victor and we drove over the pass into Jackson and thence to Grand Teton and Yellowstone NP. Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end.

Lew

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Some initial wiring/running tests on my new addition:

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Below, on the Old Side; class yard "re-positioned" a bit (it's...flex-track!). The hole in the sky will get some treatment, one day, as well as a class yard ground cover re-do.

Loco is an early Wms scale FA-1, custom painted (by me) for GM&O; TAS TMCC - no cruise. Of course, WBB has since offered these already done in GM&O, and ERR Cruise Commander is now around. Gee, thanx a bunch - especially as this is only one-third of an ABA set, both A's powered. 

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There will ultimately be a bayou in the pink foam under that Lionel lift bridge (beautiful piece, and works well), and blue backdrops all around.

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Well, better late than never, Great Front End Pictures the last few days from everyone, Mark Strittmatter, nice PA Locomotive line up and super nice wall display in the background, Trumptrain, your layout is so colorful and packed with neat scenes, great motive power, RSJB18 Bob, Great Set Of steamers and Diesels and nice track plan, Bar GP7 #63 your layout is truly a work of art, Nicely weathered Diesels and great ballast and trackwork with grassy spotting, Randy Harrison- Your Pictures are Awesome and bring back fond memories of past gone by, Briansilvermustang, your pictures of models and Real trains are Fantastic, Bill T, I love our train room, GE EVO and your layout, Ted W, Wow, Great Pictures Of the real Burlington Northern Passenger train and of course, The Sante Fe Passenger trains....Rattler21, Thank You for your contributions to, your pictures are very nice...Thank You all for sharing your time and talents on Front End Friday, this is a day to relax......F6724F77-AE25-4199-8275-A613D2732B12FF34FFA4-E255-48EC-8CF7-FB43548BA2D8F79CE07B-74AA-403C-B267-9DC1CB3927330B614111-D2A3-4278-889F-FCEC9A12C54845498E52-0D63-4FF1-8A5D-8614DFD625CEE8FFD2DD-0E72-4FB5-BD86-5A7EA470AC1078598F63-6BBF-4739-9943-9DD069845461

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