My first day as a switchman, my conductor stood a quarter on the engineer’s console, to show me how smooth the Fairbanks Morse loco’s were. When the mill was shutting down( they had 10), we tried to get the mill to donate them to museums. The mill cut them up, “to teach the union a lesson”! Loved them. Fantastic low end torque, with very little wheel slip.

I currently work at FM. We're still here.

@mistgate

3 жыл бұрын

You guys got a new-old-stock H-10-44 radiator on the shelf somewhere?

@stephenhunter70

2 жыл бұрын

Any chance they could built a new radiator, and surprise the museum by donating it!

One minor correction to this wonderful video and that is the company started in "St." Johnsbury, Vermont.

The Fairbanks Morse company is still around. They were sold to different companies over the years but are back to being a private company again now known as Fairbanks Morse Defense. Still making engines for the US Navy after all these years.

You should find a mechanic from Pakistan, he would have that radiator fixed in a day

@jacquesblaque7728

2 жыл бұрын

Or he'd fabricate a new copy from scratch, in a couple days, mainly from straw & goat-dung. Amazing resourcefulness there- send a couple dimensioned pix.

dozens of places to get this radiator fixed. no problem

@Mercmad

3 жыл бұрын

Or someone with a very big backyard has one.

Thanks for sharing another great video! Here in North Carolina, we also have a Fairbanks Morse Diesel, specifically Beaufort and Morehead #1860, which is actually operational at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer. Beautiful little engine!

Please bring this engine back to its MNS paint scheme. The Minneapolis Northfield and Southern, originally the Dan Patch Lines, named after a famous race horse in the early 20th century.

Nice locomotive❤

That cranky old guy down at the corner…? Wait a minute-that’s me!

A radiator is all that you need to make the FM run? There are a lot of specialty shops that can build custom radiators. How about if I come over some weekend and take some measurements and see if we can get started on a replacement radiator?

FM really still exists, and they still make these engines.

Another great video. My kudos to all who made this video. Thank you very much. Be safe and healthy please.

The Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway also have FM’s, love the sound of them.

Cool video- and I really dig the scene transitions. The H10-44s are so cool looking

Why can your volunteers rebuild the radiator? Take it apart carefully and film it all say with a go pro in slow motion mode, with close ups or a 2nd camera. Take still photographs of the radiator as it comes apart? I think with all the rebuilding that your museum folks have done, if you took all of that know how and put it together they could figure out how to make that radiator work reliably again. Just encouraging every one @ the museum shop to put there heads together to fix or completely remake a radiator for this locomotive. I mean this as a form of encouragement and as a compliment. Just in case there was any doubt about my intentions. You can do if you put together all the know how of every one there!

I'd have no idea what to do for a replacement radiator for those. Given the size I'm pretty sure just a patch would be useless on it lol

Canadian Pacific used FM units widely in southern British Columbia: indeed they constructed a special servicing facility in Nelson, BC. The Canadian models were built by the Canadian Locomotive Company of Kingston, Ontario, which I believe was owned by Faibanks Morse.

Solder together a radiator from scratch. Brand new.

When it is brought back to functionality will it remain in Hallet green, MN&S or MW? Although I lived in Golden Valley MN I don't recall ever seeing it but since the only time I saw the MN&S was when I was at grade school the railway might not have used it during those hours typically.

Is it possible that said spare part might be in static display in Milton or Brodhead, Wisconsin?

@shakedydogshake

Жыл бұрын

That would be MN&S H12-44 #10, currently painted CNW colors, at Milton.

Well, you did it again. These videos aren't about the locomotives or the museum, they're about putting yourself on youtube.

@tobyyoder8350

Жыл бұрын

Lol , he talks about the history of the equipment in the videos

WWII subs had mostly GM engines.

@jacquesblaque7728

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, specifically Cleveland (locomotive) diesels, NOT Detroits. Lots of 16V-248s, descendants of Winton 201. Estimated 70% of WW II subs were powered by Cleveland diesels.

@bcgrittner8076

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacquesblaque7728 I knew a WWII Navy submariner who served on a sub that had an F-M engine. He told me about its unique design. So, there were some subs out there so equipped.

@jacquesblaque7728

2 жыл бұрын

@@bcgrittner8076 Early on in WW II there were also some real odball sub-optimum engines, like the HOR, that were swapped out ASAP. Please note that I said 70% Clevelands.

Can we get a better look on the interior?

4:27 that voice crack tho 🤣🤣🤣🤣

ThePlandemic is gone for now you. Need to update you talk

Sub engines were split between FM and GM Cleveland Engine Division, a successor of Winton. Enough of the PSA about the plandemic.