Born in Beloit ... Fairbanks Morse

All the space I have , until I finish my tables , to run my new Lionel Train Masters ...  

currently running just with my CW-80 ... will try out the iPad app , eventually , to access more features ...

Added another few pieces ...

An MTH H10-44 and an old old Williams Train Master

Outside of a pair of S scale Train Masters:

All I have is a parts manual for the C-Liners:

Rusty

I've always loved the Train Master as well.  I have two Williams versions on my layout.  

AC&Y had a small fleet of FM H16-44 and H20-44 diesels.  Lionel produced this model several years ago.  One of my favorite locos.

Tom

Just picked up an MTH H10-44 on Ebay ( it was even upgraded to PS2 ) 

I worked at a power plant that had one of these engines as a back up generator.  Unfortunately it was defunct before I got there and I never was able to see it run.  I was told at the time those engines were still popular on older tugboats.

More bad photography... 6-18340/CCII ...pulls 20+ Die-cast rolling stock up grade.  I have the MTH Caboose somewhere.

Also used on submarines

https://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=864

The USS Ling was a museum in the 70s? 80s? I was surprised to see all the FM power in the engine room.

I've got two Williams Train Masters, one in Wabash Blue Bird paint, the other in Great Northern Orange, and a Lionel NYC H10-44.

@jhz563 posted:

I worked at a power plant that had one of these engines as a back up generator.  Unfortunately it was defunct before I got there and I never was able to see it run.  I was told at the time those engines were still popular on older tugboats.

Older US submarines as well.

Steve

I have been enamored with the Train Master engine since Lionel cataloged the Virginian TM (albeit the incorrect color scheme) back in the 50's.  So in the early 2000's I picked the K-Line version (seem to be the best representation of an O-gauge TM) of the Pennsy TM.  The same time added the MTH conventional Pennsy H10-44 which I upgraded to DCS.

I believe it was 2010 that MTH announced retooling the Premier line Tran Master.  So in 2011 brought the Pennsy version (seeking the K-Line one).

Then early in 2012 added the MTH Southern version.

Note that MTH correctly tooled the Southern version with the set down lower pilot deck!

Ron

I have a MTH H10-44 (PS). I always loved the body style of the FM's.

Bob

A much older thirteen pound+ doorstop:

@PRRMP54 posted:

A much older thirteen pound+ doorstop:

All cast brass? Nice!

@Rusty Traque posted:

Outside of a pair of S scale Train Masters:

All I have is a parts manual for the C-Liners:

Rusty

Fantastic !

Love the Wabash scheme on the TM .... gorgeous ...

neat book ! I don’t have that one ...

sweet !

@JET posted:

All cast brass? Nice!

Brass or bronze. Unfortunately the wheels are not insulated so it is an outside third-rail locomotive for the time being.

This is a fun topic. I also love the FM locomotives. My favorite is my SP H-12-44.

@PRRMP54 posted:

A much older thirteen pound+ doorstop:

Beautiful loco ...

the H20-44 still evades my collection ....

@WP posted:

This is a fun topic. I also love the FM locomotives. My favorite is my SP H-12-44.

Gorgeous in the "as delivered " scheme

Some run time at the North Carolina Transportation Museum train show ... 2020 Lionel BTO Train Master Demonstrators.. thanks to Hennings Trains

MTH Proto 1 TM Demondtrator

Oh Goody! Another Fairbanks Morse thread.  How did I miss this?  First one is my sand-cast Erie-Built, which you have seen before.  Next is my friend Maroon's "Fernando Valley" sand-cast F-M from days of yore.  Finally, and I forget who did the body, is my H16-66, using CLW trucks.  The body is sand cast in one piece; the trucks are lost-wax CLW.

Some more FM power ..

MTH H10-44 ...

Lionel Legacy H16-44

And a Williams Train Master pushing an Atlas Dummy Erie Build (purchased from somebody on this forum , a few yrs back ..)

MTH did not sell the Train Master tooling or their H10-44 tooling ...

Hoping those will be part of the special order models,  in the future

@bob2 posted:

Oh Goody! Another Fairbanks Morse thread.  How did I miss this?  First one is my sand-cast Erie-Built, which you have seen before.  Next is my friend Maroon's "Fernando Valley" sand-cast F-M from days of yore.  Finally, and I forget who did the body, is my H16-66, using CLW trucks.  The body is sand cast in one piece; the trucks are lost-wax CLW.

All 3 are beauties !

If you ever need a good home to store them , I know of a place in SC 😅

@WP posted:

This is a fun topic. I also love the FM locomotives. My favorite is my SP H-12-44.

Not being an SP guy i wondered about the giant auxiliary headlights. Enough searching found this, very interesting technology compared to the more well known mars light.

http://www.trainweb.org/gyra/gyra.htm

dPrasse, i am confused!  I thought the NCTM show was cancelled in 2020 because of the Covid?  Feel sure that Marcus sent me an email to that affect.

Ron

@PRRronbh posted:

dPrasse, i am confused!  I thought the NCTM show was cancelled in 2020 because of the Covid?  Feel sure that Marcus sent me an email to that affect.

Ron

2020 was canceled.... this was the show  just 2wks ago ..

My Lionel Train Masters are the 2020 edition

@dPrasse posted:

2020 was canceled.... this was the show  just 2wks ago ..

My Lionel Train Masters are the 2020 edition

I had a table there both days.  I don't recall seeing any O-gauge set up!

Ron

@PRRronbh posted:

I had a table there both days.  I don't recall seeing any O-gauge set up!

Ron

I was between the big S modular layout and gorgeous HO modular ...

@dPrasse posted:

I was between the big S modular layout and gorgeous HO modular ...

Now I realize where you were set up or should say where you were going to set up.  The last time walked by your table there were only two half circles of track laying there.

Ron

@PRRronbh posted:

Now I realize where you were set up or should say where you were going to set up.  The last time walked by your table there were only two half circles of track laying there.

Ron

Yup ...

Set up the tables on Friday ...

Came back first thing Saturday to set everything else up ... a Kia Soul only holds do much 🤣🤣

Well, here are some plastic H16-66 models:   Oops - top one is an EMD.  All plastic.

@bob2 posted:

Oh Goody! Another Fairbanks Morse thread.  How did I miss this?  First one is my sand-cast Erie-Built, which you have seen before.  Next is my friend Maroon's "Fernando Valley" sand-cast F-M from days of yore.  Finally, and I forget who did the body, is my H16-66, using CLW trucks.  The body is sand cast in one piece; the trucks are lost-wax CLW.

My favorite, the B-17 as built by FM!

I've got one FM diesel, in AT&SF of course.

@Lou1985 posted:

I've got one FM diesel, in AT&SF of course.

I like it !

Picked up a 1954 Lionel catalog , showing of the new Train Master