Locomotive profile: Fairbanks-Morse Train Master

Locomotive profile: Fairbanks-Morse Train Master

By Angela Cotey | March 16, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020


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Canadian Pacific Train Master No. 8905 at ExpoRail in Montreal, Quebec.
Canadian Pacific Train Master No. 8905 at ExpoRail in Montreal, Quebec.
Jim Wrinn
Train Master

•YEARS BUILT: 1953-1956

•MANUFACTURER: Fairbanks-Morse

•OPERATED ON: Canadian National; Canadian Pacific; Central of New Jersey; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; Pennsylvania Railroad; Reading; Southern; Southern Pacific; Virginian; Wabash

•NAMES: Train Master, H-24-66

•QUANTITY: 127

•HORSEPOWER: 2,400

•KNOWN FOR: Poor performance at full throttle for extended periods or in high temperatures

•STATUS: One locomotive on display, Canadian Pacific 8905, at Exporail, the Canadian Railway Museum

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