I am in Baltimore about once every two weeks and I like to swing by the B&O as they change out the trains in the yard every now and then. Can any one tell me what this this is? It looks European to me, typically they have a sign or the model on the cab. 
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Google is your friend. Its a Fairbanks Morse H-12-44: http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...icture.aspx?id=58490
http://www.borail.org/9733.aspx
Did you try Googling "BOMX 9733"?
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@RickO posted:Google is your friend. Its a Fairbanks Morse H-12-44: http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...icture.aspx?id=58490
OK So I work in IT, and I cant tell you how many times I have walked up to some one's desk and they say "well now that you are here its working fine!" So the shoe is on the other foot now. I tried googleing about 50 different things! I even searched the B&O's on line inventory with no luck at all!
Thanks a lot, some times it just takes a second set of eye's.
Hey Peter....FWIW...the engine pictured is kinda known as the baby brother of the Fairbanks Morse Trainmaster...and to go further, a nearby farm has a quite large scale, on/in the ground with a Fairbanks Morse nameplate on it! So, they must have produced a variety of large scale industrial machines!
@redjimmy1955 posted:Hey Peter....FWIW...the engine pictured is kinda known as the baby brother of the Fairbanks Morse Trainmaster.
Not really, as the locomotive pictured is just an FM switcher, i.e. NOT a "Baby Train Master" which was an H-16-66 model. Also note that the name "Trainmaster" is a supervisory position in the railroad industry, while the FM 2400 horsepower diesel electric locomotive was marketed as the "Train Master" (H-24-66 model).
..and to go further, a nearby farm has a quite large scale, on/in the ground with a Fairbanks Morse nameplate on it! So, they must have produced a variety of large scale industrial machines!
Someday the realization of non-sensically splitting hairs may occur to Hot Air.....re: the phrase " kinda known" connotes neither actual or true factual description.
Being a volunteer part time railroader, I was trying to help the O.P.....you as usual, weren't...lol!
@redjimmy1955 posted:Someday the realization of non-sensically splitting hairs may occur to Hot Air
Why the smart*** comment???
.....re: the phrase " kinda known" connotes neither actual or true factual description.
Just how was/is THAT helpful?
Being a volunteer part time railroader, I was trying to help the O.P.....you as usual, weren't...lol!
I provided FACTUAL information by correcting YOUR mis-information. Since this is the Real Trains Forum, you might actually learn something about the prototype from profesionals.
@redjimmy1955 posted:Someday the realization of non-sensically splitting hairs may occur to Hot Air.....re: the phrase " kinda known" connotes neither actual or true factual description.
Being a volunteer part time railroader, I was trying to help the O.P.....you as usual, weren't...lol!
"Helping" by providing incorrect information isn't helpful. As a "part-time" railroader, you should know better, swallow your pride, and just own your mistake. "Thanks, Hot Water, you're right. I goofed on that one!" would have been a better response.
@peter allen 072518 posted:Yo
OK So I work in IT, and I cant tell you how many times I have walked up to some one's desk and they say "well now that you are here its working fine!" So the shoe is on the other foot now. I tried googleing about 50 different things! I even searched the B&O's on line inventory with no luck at all!
Thanks a lot, some times it just takes a second set of eye's.
In any case, here is an image showing differences in "wax" jobs. No "W A" ?
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