Great photo and history. And btw, those FM's are some of my favorites!
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| Posted by SeanK97 on December 8, 2011 | |
Nice photo as usual!, question though, isn't a "Baby Trainmaster" normally a 4-axle unit, not 6? I am not entirely familiar with FM designations and I am too lazy to look it up frankly. Keep 'em coming, I love the old CNW stuff being a Chicago born railfan who missed all this nice power that was hidden in the U.P.
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SeanK97: Yes, all the H-16-66 locomotives were six-axle units. They rode on Baldwin-style truck frames between 1951 and 1953 and Trimount trucks after 1954. They were dubbed "Baby Trainmasters" after 1954 because the carbody styling changed and looked similiar to FM's model H-24-66, which of course were the real "Train Masters." Only 58 "Baby Trainmasters" were built between 1951 and 1958. C&NW bought the most (50), Milwaukee purchased six with Alcoa and TVA each buying one. FM also built a four-axle H-16-44, that after 1955, had a carbody that looked similiar to the six-axle H-16-66. 296 H-16-44s were built between between 1950 and 1963, so there were considerably more H-16-44s running around than H-16-66s. Thanks to my good friend and author, Jerry Pinkepank, for all the above information from his book: The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide (Kalmbach Publishing Co. 1973).
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