N&W/ex VGN FM Trainmasters / Milw H10-44's / OC FM's

superheater · **Joined:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:54 pm **Posts:** 2605

The Trainmasters were numbered 173-174 and pulled an NRHS excursion out of Roanoke November 1973. When did they meet their end?

The Milwaukee FM's werenumbered 760-761 and existed as late as June 1973 in Milwaukee. I'm assuming these are gone too, when did they go?

A couple of years ago, the OCRR purchased some FM's from North Carolina. What's their status?

PJS · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:25 pm

Milwaukee 760 is in operating condition at the Illinois Railway Museum

Tim Botti · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:34 pm

The OC Fairbanks-Morse units are stored at Morgan Run, last I checked. I believe the one with the black/red/yellow paint is stored serviceable, the other needed some work.

Tim B

NH0401 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:10 pm

Most (all ?) of the ex-VGN TrainMasters were converted to slugs. One might suspect that N&W financed the conversions by selling the FM OP engines for non-rail use. :-)

Doesn't the RDG group have one in their collection ?

Dave

Metman499 · **Joined:** Mon May 09, 2005 8:16 pm **Posts:** 80

Reading Tech has one of the ex-FM slugs. I am not sure where it is stored at present. There may also still be a slug stored at RMDI in Pittston, PA. I hope to get in there sometime in the next month or so to get some photos.

scottychaos · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:14 am

There is only one surviving Trainmaster, H-24-66.
Canadian Pacific 8905, at the Canadian Railway Museum.

There are no surviving Trainmasters from US roads.

Here is one of the former N&W units, as a slug:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=119350

There are two surviving "baby trainmasters", H-16-66.

One now lettered for CP, in Canada, but not an original CP unit..
was originally an Alcoa unit.

and one former TVA, still in Tennessee:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=78107

http://www.thedieselshop.us/PRSVDfm.HTML

http://www.thedieselshop.us/FM_H1666.HTML

http://www.thedieselshop.us/FM_H2466.HTML

Scot

wilkinsd · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:07 am

At one time there was some speculation that the TVA unit had been used as a demonstrator unit by FM. The window in the tall short hood was supposedly used as a place to position a camera to film the locomotive or railroad. Can anybody confirm this?

Windows in the tall short hood of first generation diesels are not uncommon. The NC&STL had a series of steam generator equipped GPs with windows in the tall short hood, supposedly for monitoring the steam generator.

Does TVA still own the unit? What is its current disposition?

Dennis Storzek · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:33 am

To round out Scot's roster of preserved FM roadswitchers, IRM has Union Pacific H-20-44 number 1366:

http://www.irm.org/cgi-bin/rsearch.cgi?diesel=Union+Pacific+Railroad=1366

Not a "baby" Trainmaster, and looking more like an oversize end cab switcher, it is a road locomotive none the less.