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Re: CPR Trainmaster
Wabash and SP ran short hood forward ... dP
By dprasse · #51 ·
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
By dprasse · #50 ·
Re: New member
Howdy ! Great looking scheme ! dPrasse
By dprasse · #49 ·
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
By Bert Greeley <bert-tpsrr@...> · #48 ·
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
By bongiovanni12001 · #47 ·
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
By Bert Greeley <bert-tpsrr@...> · #46 ·
Re: CPR Trainmaster
I just recently learned that Pennsy ran them (and all hood diesels) long-forward. Bert _____ Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 11:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Fairbanks-Morse]
By Bert Greeley <bert-tpsrr@...> · #45 ·
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
By bongiovanni12001 · #44 ·
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
By Harold Murray · #43 ·
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
By Bert Greeley <bert-tpsrr@...> · #42 ·
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:
By Clark Cone · #41 ·
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
By Bert Greeley <bert-tpsrr@...> · #40 ·
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
By Clark Cone · #39 ·
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
By bongiovanni12001 · #38 ·
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
By Harold Murray · #37 ·
Re: New H24-66 model
http://archive.atlasrr.com/HOLoco/arc-hotrainmaster.htm
By dprasse · #36 ·
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
By Clark Cone · #35 ·
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 !
By dprasse · #34 ·
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
By Harold Murray · #33 ·
Re: New H24-66 model
HO and N ?
By dprasse · #32 ·