Front End Friday

[TrucTrain55]

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[santafewillie]

Here's one that I posted in the Coffee Shop earlier today, cropped a bit here. ATSF CF7 #2572.

 

[bnsf971]

 

[Rico]

I actually don’t have any pics of my models from the front but you did say any scale right? This is my ten foot long outside layout, shortest short line ever!

 

[CambriaArea51]

I have a pic for this week. CSX Armed Forces #1776, ES44AC.

 

[TLOC]

 

[McLeod]

1/1 scale Front-end Friday photo for April 22, 2022.

GE C44-9W.

Photo captured 04-21-2022 by GB Swidley

 

[logandsawman]

I picked a 1:1 after looking at the first new post, here is one of Ron Nixon's photos in front of the familiar Wyoming Minnesota depot:

Number 328 still lives at the Roundhouse in St. Paul. I have many pictures of this famous engine, also am modelling it for the layout. Unfortunately, the tender fell when moving and I need a couple of those little springs for the tender trucks. It is an old Varney Casey Jones.

The building on the right is still there, a good restaurant called the Cornerstone. It was build around 1910. The depot was demolished several years ago, in a couple stages.

 

[skyliner]

Here's DGNO 3496 at their locomotive facility in Carrollton, TX in March of last year. The SD40-2 entered service in 1979 with BN as #8072. In the back is CFNR 111, a GP15-1 built in 1976 for the CNW.

 

[TLOC]

 

[Rico]

I finally had time to run some trains today!
The high rail is waiting in the siding to clear the west bound plow extra and give a roll by.

 

[CambriaArea51]

I finally had time to run some trains today!
The high rail is waiting in the siding to clear the west bound plow extra and give a roll by.

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I like the tail lights on the truck too.

 

[santafewillie]

Freshly painted ATSF F45, #5935. An Athearn Genesis model from a few years ago.

 

[CambriaArea51]

A set of Chessie System pushers as the skys grow dark.

 

[TLOC]

Good morning this Friday morning 4/29/2022.

The newest addition to the roster.

TomO

 

[McLeod]

It's the tail-end on a long, empty hopper train with another pair of engines pulling up front. The hoppers are being delivered to the staging yard, and the engines will pull out another train of loaded cars, and head back Edmonton way.

 

[santafewillie]

Here is my latest acquisition:

A Ryobi electric self-propelled machine.
Oh wait, it's supposed to be trains! A ScaleTrains Dash9-44CW.

Or how about an Athearn RTR SD40-2

 

[CambriaArea51]

Custom painted,decaled, and weathered Kato SD70MAC.
Herpa Peterbilt with added chrome wheels, bull bar, and hand painted marker lights.

 

[Rico]

Test run of an SD38-2 awaiting a Railpro decoder.

 

[IronBeltKen]

A Stewart F7 in an earlier B&O scheme with a newer Capitol Dome logo "patched" on [based on a prototype photo]: