FEF! - front end friday

York1 · March 29, 2025, 2:06pm

A great way to remember your father!

richhotrain · March 29, 2025, 2:08pm

I agree.

I would put it in a glass case on a wood base and put it in a prominent space in your home.

Rich

asardaro · March 29, 2025, 5:01pm

Rich,
I thought about doing that and probably will at some point. Hoping that some day i can afford a new one.
Al

HO-Velo · March 29, 2025, 5:23pm

Yes, fav early Spielberg with a truck as the relentless villain instead of a shark.

Regards, Peter

richhotrain · March 29, 2025, 9:34pm

OldEngineman · March 29, 2025, 10:24pm

N Scale posted a pic and wrote:
“New Haven 1218 is on the front end of a short train tonight, showing off her freshly painted orange handrails and grab irons! The model came with black handrails and grabs so I spent some time painting tonight to make her more accurate!”

My HO version of the 1218 came with the handrails already painted!

Erik_Mag · March 31, 2025, 1:33am

I’m pretty sure that “Duel” was the first film that Spielberg directed. Does the car have a driver that looks like Dennis Weaver? Also needs an SP freight train in the background.

A biopic about Spielberg was his interest in making films came from recreating the head on car train collision from “The Worlds Greatest Show”.

HO-Velo · March 31, 2025, 3:15am

According to Wiki ‘Duel’ is Spielberg’s second film, but first biggie. Best I could muster for ‘David Mann’ in his Plymouth Valiant and the freight train.
Regards, Peter

N_Scale_Train_Boy · March 31, 2025, 3:28am

I wish! I think the newest run of Atlas GP9s have them correctly colored and with separate grabs, but my 1218 was a $65 train show pick up that I could not pass up! Gorgeous loco!

Heathmiester · April 4, 2025, 5:31pm

FEF 4/04/2025
HTLX relic working the elevator pulled up to the unit train headed thru town.

HO-Velo · April 4, 2025, 5:38pm

Regards, Peter

South_Bank_Terminal · April 4, 2025, 6:16pm

Or in the case of End-Cabs, it could be, “I think my Front-End has just seen my Back-End”.

Paul.

davefoxx · April 4, 2025, 6:45pm

It’s a Southern Ry. U23B; the long hood is the front.

DFF

Casey_Dowling · April 4, 2025, 7:27pm

A pair of F7s wait on the siding as an SD-7 takes the main with a stock extra leaving Paonia. The sheep ranchers are valued customers, apparently. An FM H15-44 is in the background, standing by.

asardaro · April 4, 2025, 7:37pm

An E7A coming 'round the bend.
Al

_JaBear · April 4, 2025, 9:44pm

Waiting by Bear, on Flickr

BATMAN · April 4, 2025, 10:27pm

gmpullman · April 5, 2025, 1:01am

It’s what’s up front that counts!

NYC Finest Steam at Coal Dock 3 by Edmund, on Flickr

Cheers, Ed

South_Bank_Terminal · April 5, 2025, 9:18pm

In another Topic, I raised the evolvement of the EMD Class 66 Locos in the UK and Europe.

At the Shildon Ex. today I spotted an ‘Accurascale’ OO Scale (1:76.2) 16.5mm Gauge Class 66 in G&W ‘Freightliner’ livery No. 66415 ‘You Are Never Alone’, which was a limited edition run for the charity, Samaritans UK.

She is in the G&W UK/Europe fleet and I personally think these Locos are very handsome and they sound real cool when they go by our house, either way on the gradient.

I enclose some of the PR write-up, again no Copywrite Infringement is intended, but the Front-end photos are too good to pass by on. Paul.

asardaro · April 11, 2025, 11:58am

Getting the FEF - front end friday started today. Here are my two switch engines i just put DCC decoders in with LEDs. The grey one is going to get a custom paint job for my semi-fictional Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad.