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Train Master by Diesel Era with David Sweetland The most useful loco ever built
Train Master by Diesel Era with David R Sweetland The most useful locomotive ever built
Soft Cover
112 pages
Copyright 1997
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Train Master5
Carbody Phases 17
Train Master Roster 24
Canadian National 27
Canadian Pacific 29
Central Railroad of New Jersey 34
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 40
Fairbanks Morse 47
Pennsylvania 55
Reading 59
Southern 67
Southern Pacific 70
Virginian 78
Wabash 85
H16-6689
Train Masters in Color97
Dispositions 105
Bibliography 108
Index 110
INTRODUCTION:
From the start, the Train Master diesel locomotive was a curious creation. Coming from the smallest of the serious diesel locomotive builders, it was the most powerful single-engine road-switcher unit in the diesel-electric locomotive market. But it was more than that. Its builder, Fairbanks, Morse & Co., intended it to be a universal workhorse, one that, through the use of a skillful advertising campaign, promised to be all things to all railroads.
Although this was a tall order for a new model, the FM Train Master lived up to its billing, but on a much smaller scale than that for which its designers had hoped
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