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| Author: | superheater [ Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | N&W/ex VGN FM Trainmasters / Milw H10-44's / OC FM's |
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? |
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| Author: | PJS [ Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: N&W/ex VGN FM Trainmasters / Milw H10-44's / OC FM's |
Milwaukee 760 is in operating condition at the Illinois Railway Museum |
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| Author: | Tim Botti [ Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: N&W/ex VGN FM Trainmasters / Milw H10-44's / OC FM's |
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 |
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| Author: | NH0401 [ Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: N&W/ex VGN FM Trainmasters / Milw H10-44's / OC FM's |
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 |
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| Author: | Metman499 [ Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:56 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: N&W/ex VGN FM Trainmasters / Milw H10-44's / OC FM's |
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. |
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| Author: | scottychaos [ Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: N&W/ex VGN FM Trainmasters / Milw H10-44's / OC FM's |
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 |
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| Author: | wilkinsd [ Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | TVA's Baby Trainmaster |
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? |
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| Author: | Dennis Storzek [ Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: TVA's Baby Trainmaster |
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. |
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