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Fairbanks-Morse Locomotives in Color by Jim Boyd Morning Sun Books w/Dust Jacket
Fairbanks-Morse Locomotives in Color by Jim Boyd
Fairbanks-Morse in Color REFLECTIONS FROM THE LIGHTS on some photos
Jim Boyd
Hard Cover w/dust jacket
Morning Sun Books
128 Pages
Copyright 1996
Contents
Forward
Fairbanks-Morse and The Locomotive Business
Whats an Opie?
The First Customer
Pumpkins and a Pink Mountain
Davis Junction and Beyond
From Erie to Cajon
Yellow HoodsVictorvilles Second-handers
Did you say 2000 Horsepower?
Destination: Mogadore
Re-Engined Rockets
John Barrigers Babies
An H10-44 or an H12-44 ?
Chicago North and West
The Unique Loewy H16-66s
Baby Trains Masters
508 at Janesville
A Rattler5 on the Haywire
Three Midwestern Terminals
Big Blue Hoods
Chicagos Steam Switchers
Chicago Switchers
Hump Day
Brunswick Green Freighters
Lightning Stripes
Lightning Stripes Color
Shorelines and Speed Merchants
Two Flavors of H16-44s
Cabin Cruisers and The Cannon Ball
The Royal Blues
Communipaw
Jersey City Terminal
Old and New- Borrowed and Blue
Rutherford and the Queen Lackawanna Loewys
The Erie never had Train Masters
The Virginian Nearly 100% FM
Banner Blues and Blacks
Nickle Plate + Wabash= N&W
Pittsburg & West Virginia Revisited
C-Liners in the Rockies
Rockies II Train Masters and H16-44s
C-Liners in London
Unique Hoods and A Lone Train Master
A Tale of Two 100s
Green & Gold
Georgia, Texas & Arizona
Black & Gold and Red all Over
Weyerhaeuser
Train Masters by the Bay
SP The Peninsula Commutes
California Switchin
Elmore in the Autumn
Oak Hill and Page
FM Farewell
OPs on the Water
Yankeetowns White Coal Haulers
The Orphan Babies
Chihuahuas Chop Shop
Chihuahua Gets The Last
Doubleheading Down to Cumbre
Second-Hand Survivors
Honorably Discharged
The FMs of the Fairless Works
Firsts and Last
Inside the Dust Jacket
By the late 1930s Fairbanks-Morse & Company had developed a unique and efficient opposed-piston diesel engine which would be ideal for locomotives. The looming Second World War intervened, and FM's diesels were immediately applied to the U.S. Navy submarine fleet. It wasn t until August 1944 that FM finally got its -OP' engine into a locomotive, a 1000-h.p. switcher for the Milwaukee Road. From that date until March 1963 FM and its Canadian subsidiary turned out 1460 locomotives, ranging from switchers to 2400-h.p. passenger cab units and the decade-ahead-of-its-time six-motor Train Master.
This book describes every original purchaser of FM locomotives and illustrates nearly every model of those owners, from short line switchers and Train Masters in commuter service to freight cab units in the Canadian Rockies and chopped-nose road switchers in Mexico all in full color and context action. These distinctive units have all but vanished from the American railroad scene, but this book captures their glory years.
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