FM TRAINMASTERS

@Michael D. Abbott posted:

Did Lionel, MTH or Williams ever make a Chessie trainmaster?

Williams did awhile back  This is one I had  MTH also did one in 2016  30-20388-1

I don't know about any of the 3 you mentioned but Custom Trains (made by Frank's Roundhouse out of Wilkes-Barre, PA) did.

Regards,

Bob

They are called Train Masters, which is the proper model name for this locomotive.

A “Trainmaster” is a middle management company officer at a railroad.

Here endeth the lesson ….

@Rich Melvin posted:

They are called Train Masters, which is the proper model name for this locomotive.

A “Trainmaster” is a middle management company officer at a railroad.

Here endeth the lesson ….

Fairbanks Morse made the Train Master. Williams and MTH made Trainmasters. Lionel made Fairbanks Morse Diesel Locomotives (or so say the boxes)...

Just to be clear, Chessie never had TM’s, correct? A Google search shows that they did not.

Steve

All you had to do is type in a few words online.

(Chessie FM)

https://www.google.com/search?...bih=722&dpr=1.25

Majority of T.M.’s were long gone by the Chessie era. They did look good in B&O 9743.

@Magicland posted:

Fairbanks Morse made the Train Master. Williams and MTH made Trainmasters. Lionel made Fairbanks Morse Diesel Locomotives (or so say the boxes)...

Is that Fairbanks Morse or Fairbanks-Morse

I don’t recall ever seeing the name hyphenated, but I’m not 100% sure of that..

As for the MTH and Williams boxes, if they said “Trainmaster” they were wrong.

@Rich Melvin posted:

I don’t recall ever seeing the name hyphenated, but I’m not 100% sure of that..

As for the MTH and Williams boxes, if they said “Trainmaster” they were wrong.

WHAT?  Toy trains manufacturers were wrong??!?  Perish the thought. 

@ecd15 posted:

WHAT?  Toy trains manufacturers were wrong??!?  Perish the thought. 

LOL!

It has always amazed me to see the naming errors made by 3-rail manufacturers over the years. Especially when a few moments of research could have given them the right answer. Some examples:

• This Train Master vs Trainmaster error has come up here many times.
• Publishing EMD diesel models with dashes in their model designation. It's a GP9, not a GP-9.
  The only place where EMD used dashes in their model numbers was in the "Dash Two" series, such as SD40-2, GP38-2, etc.
• Wrongly using the terms "scale" and "gauge."
  • The term "scale" refers to the size of the model - it is built to some scaled-down size of the original.
    
    
  • "Gauge" is nothing more than the distance between the rails. That's it. "Gauge" has absolutely nothing to do with scale or anything else other than the distance between the rails.
    On the real railroad, we always referred to track using the word gauge. On older track, where the rails had spread apart a bit over time, we would say that the track had wide gauge. If we were discussing track maintenance, an oft-asked question about a specific section of track was, "What's the gauge?" The answer to that question determined what track got worked first.

There are many more, but I'll stop now.

Yes, the name "Fairbanks-Morse" was definitely hyphenated! This information comes from the book "Train Master The Most Useful locomotive Ever Built". Restrictions of this site forbid me to show positive proof of this, however, if you have the book you can look on pages 7 & 8 if you don't believe me. Or, if you happen to have a F-M "Operator's Trouble Shooting Manual" you can see it there. Also seen is the fact that the loco was referred to as a "Train Master" (space but no hyphen).

@Big Jim posted:

Yes, the name "Fairbanks-Morse" was definitely hyphenated! This information comes from the book "Train Master The Most Useful locomotive Ever Built". Restrictions of this site forbid me to show positive proof of this, however, if you have the book you can look on pages 7 & 8 if you don't believe me. Or, if you happen to have a F-M "Operator's Trouble Shooting Manual" you can see it there. Also seen is the fact that the loco was referred to as a "Train Master" (space but no hyphen).

At times the name was hyphenated, other times it wasn't.

https://www.dieselduck.info/ma...morse/name_plate.JPG

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic...o-Hd66I&usqp=CAU

They currently do not use a hyphen, but have in the past, so either usage should be considered correct.

I used to have a hit and miss engine labeled Fairbanks Morse.  I wonder what my high school English teacher would say about it?

Of course if it's your name, your product and your money, you can write it any way that you want, e.g., Erie-Lackawanna or Erie Lackawanna (Depends on who is company president or chairman of the board). 

English has become over-hyphenated

You say "/təˈmɑː.təʊ/", I say "/təˈmeɪ.t̬oʊ/" - let's call the whole thing off. 

George

@bobfett posted:

I don't know about any of the 3 you mentioned but Custom Trains (made by Frank's Roundhouse out of Wilkes-Barre, PA) did.

Regards,

Bob

And they made it in 2 other road numbers in addition to the one on Bob's loco.

Bill T