Front End Friday

[Iron Horseman]

Found this photo seemed it was about right for Front End Friday:
Almost get the idea it is moving

Is the vignette effect intentional, or an artifact of a very small f stop setting? Either way, it worked out really well.

 

[logandsawman]

Is the vignette effect intentional, or an artifact of a very small f stop setting? Either way, it worked out really well.

It was an intentional photograph. I invited an aspiring photographer over with a very nice camera to take shots of the layout, just before the tear down. As 95% of the shots were not very well executed, a couple passed muster, this being one of them.

As remuneration, a salvageable part of the layout went to their young son, who loved model railroads.

 

[santafewillie]

OK, we're getting behind with updates here. So here are some more "Front End Friday" shots of a couple of ScaleTrains Dash9-44CW's.

 

[skyliner]

GN 400, a 1966-built SD45, is at St. Paul for Train Days 2022.

 

[logandsawman]

Took this shot a few days ago, just about got the entire train in the pic

Dave LASM

 

[BigGRacing]

Wow! Very nice Dave ! When you are done, I have another one ready for you up here.

 

[hunslet040]

Aveling and Porter No. 9449 The Blue Circle​

Vistor to the Battlefield line, Shackerstone, Leicestershire UK.

 

[rgeiter]

 

[TLOC]

FEF 7/29/2022
MP15AC Athearn Genesis
Wisconsin River Valley and Terminal RR

a work in progress, sound equipped today with scale sound system speakers, Tsumani2 decoder on a Nixtrainz buddy board, led lights and decals are next

 

[santafewillie]

A pair of SD45's from Kato.

 

[skyliner]

Reviving this thread too. I had a day to kill around Seattle this week, so I wandered down to Kent where I know a place to sit by the tracks.

Sounder 903, an F59PHI, slows for the station stop in Kent.

 

[MikeGTW]

One more I couldn't find it last night so I'm late

 

[MikeGTW]

In case anyone wondered what that B&O front end be longed to

 

[skyliner]

Amtrak 303, a Siemens ALC-42, is at St. Paul Union Depot.

 

[TrucTrain55]

Thanks for all you guys for keeping this going sorry haven’t been around been busy with life at the moment. Here’s my late entry of my Weaver O scale RS-3. If I’ve posted this before I’m sorry.

 

[TrucTrain55]

BN 5529 is leading a couple SD40-2 under the loadout.
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That’s a cool pic thanks for sharing

 

[MikeGTW]

How about a Lil Joe

 

[Snowman]

Thanks for all you guys for keeping this going sorry haven’t been around been busy with life at the moment. Here’s my late entry of my Weaver O scale RS-3. If I’ve posted this before I’m sorry. View attachment 151890

Boy that's some kinda monster rooftop antenna there on ol' Amtrak 303. That thing'll even pick up signals...
...from Voyager One.

 

[CambriaArea51]

Boy that's some kinda monster rooftop antenna there on ol' Amtrak 303. That thing'll even pick up signals...
...from Voyager One.

Looks like a light pole for the depot.

 

[Snowman]

Looks like a light pole for the depot.

Of course. In fact the left end of the next one down the line (and its guy wire) can be seen just above the "r" in Amtrak on the side, so, yeah: platform lights.
I will admit to actually wondering for a few moments (wondering for real), if it wasn't some new, modern-funky pantograph design for a locomotive that runs the northeast corridor...but a quick check of other "images for Amtrak 303" put that to rest.