Re: CPR Trainmaster
Wabash and SP ran short hood forward ...
dP
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dprasse
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Re: Train Masters and Babys ...
Correct on the 2 word name ...
Train Master
As far as folks insisiting on using "baby this" or "baby that" , im clueless ..
The proper Hxx-xx is precice , proper and shorter to write ...
dP
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dprasse
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Re: New member
Howdy !
Great looking scheme !
dPrasse
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dprasse
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Re: CPR Trainmaster
Well, it's like this: I'm currently at my 39th address in life. I know I have the documentations
somewhere, but knowing which box they are in is impossible. I will promise that, when found, I
will
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Bert Greeley <bert-tpsrr@...>
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Re: CPR Trainmaster
Bert, I would be very interested in seeing those. I have multiple sources that only refer to it as two words, and I've been trying, and failing, to encourage what I thought, for many years, was the
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bongiovanni12001
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Re: CPR Trainmaster
Actually, I have (somewhere) copies of the FM announcement of the TrainMasters. They spelled it
all three ways in the documents - Trainmaster, TrainMaster and Train Master. I guess it depended
on who
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Bert Greeley <bert-tpsrr@...>
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Re: CPR Trainmaster
I just recently learned that Pennsy ran them (and all hood diesels) long-forward.
Bert
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Subject: [Fairbanks-Morse]
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Bert Greeley <bert-tpsrr@...>
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Re: CPR Trainmaster
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
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bongiovanni12001
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CPR Trainmaster
Unique to CPR Trainmasters the first 4 units delivered had a full width short hood to accommodate 2 steam generators for passenger service. Also for Canadian cold weather they had a winterization
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Harold Murray
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Re: New member
Well, at the time I was friends with Frank at Iron Horse Hobby, a store in Brea, Ca. He did a
CNC milling company in the back, and when I showed him the Carey shell he said it would be easy
to hog out
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Bert Greeley <bert-tpsrr@...>
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Re: New member
Interesting! Can you show pictures and describe how you did the "fans and
cab milled out and replace by a scratch-built fan assembly" ?
Clark Cone
wrote:
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Clark Cone
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New member
Hello, and thanks for letting me join.
I'm Bert Greeley, near Fresno. I've been model railroading since 1974, and modeling FM's since
the get-to. I currently have about 100 FM locos in various stages
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Bert Greeley <bert-tpsrr@...>
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Re: Rare Fairbanks-Morse locomotive donated to Tennessee museum
Hi Harold - thanks for your efforts - I can use those photos to add detail
to my model! Thanks for sharing!
Regards, Clark
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Clark Cone
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Re: Rare Fairbanks-Morse locomotive donated to Tennessee museum
Thank you. For those of us digging into this, perhaps a sanity check is in order, the best you could do is the best we got now. So thank you very much.
Frank Bongiovanni
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bongiovanni12001
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Re: Rare Fairbanks-Morse locomotive donated to Tennessee museum
Clark - This is the best I could do as I was breaking museum regs by climbing up the side of a open hopper on the adjacent track. As I was focusing on the winterization cover I did think of the van
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Harold Murray
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Re: New H24-66 model
http://archive.atlasrr.com/HOLoco/arc-hotrainmaster.htm
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dprasse
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Re: Rare Fairbanks-Morse locomotive donated to Tennessee museum
Harold, did you get any close-up pictures of the cooling fans located at
the rear of the unit? Trying to deternine the # of blades on the fan and
the blade shape...
Clark
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Clark Cone
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Re: Rare Fairbanks-Morse locomotive donated to Tennessee museum
Id love? to , but , sadly , the TVA H16-66 will be the closest i get ... unless i win the lotto !
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dprasse
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Re: Rare Fairbanks-Morse locomotive donated to Tennessee museum
Want to get up close to an FM Train Master take a trip to Exporail at Delson, Quebec (south shore suburb of Montreal) and see CPR 8905. I was able to take some pictures close up, particularly the
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Harold Murray
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Re: New H24-66 model
HO and N ?
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dprasse
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