Front End Friday

@Mark V. Spadaro posted:

TGIFEF - Railking, and hopefully, haven’t used this pic before🙏🏻

That is a nice GP I have my dads in HO from the 60s, Always wanted one on O scale Mark

This is our newest addition to the Great Northeastern Railway's fleet, a K-Line, Tuscan red, PRR, GG-1 to lead the PRR Congressional. This was a pre-York acquisition delivered and tested in the lobby of the Orange Hall on Friday morning. It will soon receive an upgrade to MTH, Proto-Sound 3.

I could not get the Imbed Media function to work this morning so, below is a Youtube link to a run-by video.

April 23, 2024 (youtube.com)

@Sitka posted:

That is a nice GP I have my dads in HO from the 60s, Always wanted one on O scale Mark

Thanks, Mark.

@Randy Harrison posted:

This is our newest addition to the Great Northeastern Railway's fleet, a K-Line, Tuscan red, PRR, GG-1 to lead the PRR Congressional. This was a pre-York acquisition delivered and tested in the lobby of the Orange Hall on Friday morning. It will soon receive an upgrade to MTH, Proto-Sound 3.

I could not get the Imbed Media function to work this morning so, below is a Youtube link to a run-by video.

April 23, 2024 (youtube.com)

Great looking locomotive Randy!   As far as I know K line was the only manufacturer  to have full sized ( length ) cab access doors on their GG1s.  K line GG1s are not only good looking models, they are also fabulous pullers!!  Congrats on your purchase!

Well, this photo was posted a few days ago in another thread. But appropriately, it's a front end shot, so I'll post it here, too. This is my new Williams Union Pacific FA-1, fitted with a new cab crew.

@Randy Harrison posted:

This is our newest addition to the Great Northeastern Railway's fleet, a K-Line, Tuscan red, PRR, GG-1 to lead the PRR Congressional. This was a pre-York acquisition delivered and tested in the lobby of the Orange Hall on Friday morning. It will soon receive an upgrade to MTH, Proto-Sound 3.

I could not get the Imbed Media function to work this morning so, below is a Youtube link to a run-by video.

April 23, 2024 (youtube.com)

Randy - hard to tell (for me, anyway); is it a scale or traditional sized GG1?

Its FEF time!

MTH SW1.

A couple of front ends for this FEF.

MTH M1 and I1.

@Mark V. Spadaro

Mark:

The GG-1 is "traditional" sized (selectively compressed) to accommodate my tight O-31/O-42 curves.

The Pennsy PA idles before pulling out of the West End yard...the West End yard is part of the new addition on to the layout...

PWC Lionel Picatinny Arsenal and AEC Motorized Gas Turbine units awaiting orders in the rail yard.

@Randy Harrison posted:

@Mark V. Spadaro

Mark:

The GG-1 is "traditional" sized (selectively compressed) to accommodate my tight O-31/O-42 curves.

Thanks, Randy. TGIFEF!

@OKHIKER posted:

PWC Lionel Picatinny Arsenal and AEC Motorized Gas Turbine units awaiting orders in the rail yard.

Good to see the brake wheel on the AC condenser car survived so many times they've been broken off.

@coach joe posted:

Good to see the brake wheel on the AC condenser car survived so many times they've been broken off.

@coach Joe, That brake wheel was broken off too; that's a repair job!

That's a nice repair.  I never could figure out how to fix that so I bought a PWC version and now have two.

TGIFEF, Everyone. This is Railking.

Its FEF…

MTH Canadian Alco S2.

Happy FEF!

Railking L&NE RS3 from Beth.....

Bob

Have a good start to your FEF God Speed ALL!

MTH PRSL AS616 repainted from EL.

From one of my Christmas layouts.

- walt

Good morning FeFers,

My K-Line A5 has taken a back seat to my MTH A5, but it is still a good looking and operating engine.  I do wish it had the modern headlight.

My front-end-view for Friday May 3, 2024 shows Pennsylvania Railroad G5s 4-6-0 ten-wheeler #5740 – an MTH Premier model (20-3031-1, MSRP $699.95) delivered in March 1999 with PS1. I’ve been running this engine for almost 25 years. It’s from the first release of the MTH G5s model and has a BCR.

The PRR G5s was the most powerful ten-wheeler steam locomotive ever built. It was designed for fast acceleration in commuter service on the hills around Pittsburgh and also was used in Philadelphia, Chicago, Grand Rapids Michigan, and on Long Island. The LIRR operated 31 G5s locomotives and retired the last two in 1955. PRR G5s #5741 is preserved at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

Photos and video show #5740 pulling a short freight train on my 10’-by-5’ layout.

MELGAR

I picked up the MTH Propane Turbine at the October York show in 2023.  That chrome propane tender/tank caught my eye!   It's worked perfectly after replacing noisy smoke unit motors. It was delivered in January 2001. (20-2261-1)  Next to it is a Legacy Veranda Turbine (2133560; 2021 Catalog).  They look so cool running together pulling tank cars.

Happy FeF!  Here’s a few front end photos of an R-32 pulling in to Roosevelt Avenue station -

The CN mountain steamer approaches the South Main Street crossing...

Happy FeF!

Here's ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!    N&W Class J headed this way!

Lionel Warhorse "homemade" N&W K-2 streamlined 4-8-2. (Mostly) scratch-built brass tender.

C&O Allegheney passes Coalwood Tower with a string of black diamonds

The Mighty Lionel 249E stands ready to go to work!

Best wishes and happy Weekend

Don

Happy FeF!

It's Front End Bloody Nose Friday here in Paradise, CA.

You all have a great weekend!

You know guys, sometimes it sucks not having time to check in all the time, but on the other hand, it sure is nice to come here and see all the wonderful different type and style of engines everyone has! I also get to get some nice peaks into some of your amazing layouts!

Happy FEF everyone!

Here is a photo taken Wednesday of an I&O SD40-2 heading south on the north side of Springfield, OH.

PRR

At the head-end this Friday May 10, 2024 is Lehigh & New England Railroad RS-3 #658 (MTH Railking 30-21185-1) – a special run model by Forum Sponsor Public Delivery Track. The online L&NE Diesel Roster says #658 was built in 1949 and actually was an Alco RS-2, not an RS-3. The major difference between the two types was horsepower – 1500 for the RS-2 and 1600 for the RS-3.

Video shows #658 exiting the tunnel’s south portal, crossing the truss bridge, and passing behind the Idaho Hotel on my 10’-by-5’ layout.

It should be mentioned that today, May 10, 2024 is the 155th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad and the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory, Utah on this date in 1869.

MELGAR

Happy FEF!

A couple RS-3's getting the days jobs ready to go.

Bob

All passengers have boarded and the PA doodlebug is ready to take the main.

Gene

Happy FEF everyone! To celebrate the 155th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad I thought I would do something special.