I remember (early 1980s?) when 3 of these FM switchers went back to Fairbanks Morse for rebuild. Wonder what ever happen to them?
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According to the Hyde/Sanders Miwlaukee Road Diesel Power book, Milwaukee Road had 24 H-10-44s built from August 1944 to March 1950. They were retired between Nov. 1976 and March 1983. MILW owned 48 FM H-12-44s, built from May 1950 to January 1955. These were retired between October 1972 and March 1983. The life span of the FMs overlapped the EMD MP15ACs for several years. It is possible that some of the units that survived until 1983 may have had some rebuilding, but I am not sure.
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| Posted by AZ Mike on March 10, 2017 | |
I was raised in Beloit WI. Remembered seeing them in the CNW yard waiting to go up to FM.
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The 3 switchers you speak of Mike were rebuilt for Mexico. I cannot remember which railroad. I do remember my dad taking me to work so I could get up in them before they were rebuilt. I also grew up in Beloit and my father worked for Fairbanks. I also had a conversation with someone that worked for the Milwaukee road in locomotive maintenance, who mentioned to his former boss that the FM's were not the problem everyone said they were. If they had given the EMD counter parts as little maintenance as they were told to give the FM"s they would have survived only a couple of years. Most people do not know that FM, Baldwin and Alco won an anti-trust suit against EMD and GE that used there considerable freight business with the railroads to force them to use their equipment or loose the freight revenue.
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