Actually,
I have (somewhere) copies of the FM announcement of the TrainMasters. They
spelled it all three ways in the documents ¨C Trainmaster, TrainMaster and Train
Master. I guess it depended on who was writing that particular part of the
write-up.
It don¡¯t
matter to me, ¡°A rose, by any other name, would still prick your finger!¡± or
something like that.
Welcome to the new members.? This list has been sadly dormant for
a while.
FWIW, the Virginian and some other roads did operate the H24-66's long hood
forward.? My guess is that this was a carryover from the engineers who
were used to having that much protection in front of them, even with the trade
off in visibility.
And, I know I sound like an old old man: Trainmaster as one word is a job on
the railroad; Train Master, two words, is FM's name for the H24-66.?
Junior and Baby Train Master are unofficial terms for both the H16-66 and
H16-44(railfan creations mostly, just like Phases of the other diesel
builders)and varied from railroad to railroad and fan group to fan group.?
Yeah; there may be five of us who care about this.? The newest issue of
the NMRA Magazine has a picture of a lovely H16-44 and they call it a Baby
Trainmaster.? Sigh.
