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Originally Posted by MartyE:
You mean my Trainmasters?
 
 Yes my Trainmasters look great.  Thanks!

Hmmm...I don't see any pictures of any Trainmasters. If you want to see a shot of a couple of future Trainmasters, here's one...

 

 TheBoys

 

 

I do, however, see a couple of nice looking Train Masters in the OP's post.

 

The two terms are not interchangeable. "Train Master" is the correct brand name of those Fairbanks Morse units. "Trainmaster" is simply a generic term for a mid-level company officer at a railroad.

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Originally Posted by gunrunnerjohn:

Marty, welcome to grammar 101.

It's not grammar, it is proper railroad terminology. Fairbanks Morse never made any Trainmasters. They did, however make a lot of very successful Train Masters.

 


 

Originally Posted by MartyE:
And from the looks of it I guess Rich doesn't have anything better to do today either.

Gee..a little thin-skinned here, eh, Marty?

 

If you consider trying to teach you the proper names for specific locomotives built by specific manufacturers as "...nothing better to do..." then I'm at a loss for words. This is like calling a GP9 a "Jeep 9."

 

And for the record...I have a LOT to do today. I post here when I take my breaks! 

 

I post on my breaks too.
 
And sometimes with little time errors are made.  I'm fine with the corrections but some folks cannot correct without the "holier than thou attitude" and that is where the problem is.  Thin skinned?  No it just came to a head. 
 
While I do love to learn and I've said this before, presentation is everything.  And then the gang on mentality of a few pretty much gets my goat.  Not just on my post but many others that I don't even post in.
 
I apologize to you Rich because my frustrations at the wonder twins came across to you who undeservedly got caught in the cross fire.
 
Now if you will excuse me, now that I am "off the clock" I have to go home and create some Lash Ups....er I mean MU.  See Rich I do learn from you.
 
 
 
 
 
Originally Posted by OGR Webmaster:
Gee..a little thin-skinned here, eh, Marty?

 

If you consider trying to teach you the proper names for specific locomotives built by specific manufacturers as "...nothing better to do..." then I'm at a loss for words. This is like calling a GP9 a "Jeep 9."

 

And for the record...I have a LOT to do today. I post here when I take my breaks! 

 

 

Last edited by MartyE
Originally Posted by OGR Webmaster:
Fairbanks Morse never made any Trainmasters. They did, however make a lot of very successful Train Masters.

 

Well successful in a short-term sense, yes.  Long term, not so much obviously.

 

While the opposed-piston engines were able to generate lots of horsepower and provided the locomotives with very impressive acceleration (the most powerful single-prime mover locomotive at the time it was unveiled), they were also more labor-intensive to maintain compared to the more conventional, non-opposed piston prime movers from EMD, Alco, or GE, and also were not very well suited in hot, arid desert climates where wind-blown sand is part of the working environment.  Understandable since the prime movers were originally designed for US Navy submarines where cool, dense temperatures are the norm; they just have been proven to be generally unsuitable in the grand scheme for railroad  operations.

Originally Posted by revolgnad:

Hey, did they ever make Trainmasters and Geeps in "Lash-ups" ? 

Yes. Some TM owners operated their Train Masters in multiple with units of other builders. For example, I have pictures of CNJ TMs in consists with ALCo and EMD units. Some include units of all three builders on the same train.    

Bob

As long as we are parsing syntax and nomenclature, the term is M.U.ing for multiple unit consists. Lash-up is a Lionel not a railroad term.

 

Early in dieselization, railroads would only MU locomotives with others from the same manufacturer.  Early carbody units (F,E FA etc) didn't have MU epicycles in their noses.

Baldwins never were M.U.ed with anything else as they had an incomparable pneumatic controls

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