This was an incredible find in the storage lines at Ogden.

Santa Fe FM H16-44 roadswitchers Nos. 3013, 3005 and 3012 layover at Topeka between runs in September 1968. Photo by Ed Spitzer, part of my slide collection.

TVA NÂș F3060 is resting in its new home at the Tennessee Valley Railroad GJ display yard. The Fairbank-Morse H16-66 was a longtime resident at the TVA Gallatin Fossil Plant since 1958. A perfect ... (more)

Here's a rare catch of a FM-led train over the Allegheny crest emerging at Gallitzin on a work train. The hogger looks back inspecting his train.

Milwaukee Road FM H16-44s 404 and 406 are at the road's Bensenville yard in the winter of 1975. The fresh paint is a bit of a surprise as these units were retired soon.

In A Long Gone Scene a FM H 16-44 # 525 leads a Southbound Local out of the Chihuahua al Pacifico yard ay Juarez in the early morning in April 1979. Even the old 40 Ft box cars are interesting.

Milwaukee road FM H16-44s 404 and 406 in fresh paint await retirement In Bensenville yard on a sunny day in December of 1975. I always wondered why paint something that is about to be retired

In early 1968 the New Haven retired its ten Loewy-style Fairbanks-Morse H16-44s (590-599) and lined up eight of them at Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, to await disposition. They would be scrapp... (more)

MILW H16-44 nos. 424 and 434 relax in the weeds near the roundhouse at Savanna, IL in January 1976. Their duties are over and they await the scrapper's torch on this snowless winter day.

The end of the line. CN had a sizable fleet of Fairbanks Morse locomotives, but by the end of the 1960's their useful lives were over. Four of CN's 18 H16-44 road switchers are in the St. Lawren... (more)

All dressed up and now where to go. FMs 423 and 427 have a fresh coat of paint in January 1976 as they sit in the retirement line at Savanna, Illinois. Built in December 1954 both these units woul... (more)

A Milwaukee Road transfer run in the care of a Fairbanks-Morse H-16-44 rolls off the Chicago River drawbridge and approaches the multiple diamonds at Ash Street in Chicago.

MILW 409 sits at Bensenville, IL behind the MILW roundhouse. It is being cannibalized to keep a few remaining FMs alive. Both Milwaukee and C&NW were supporters of the Beloit, WI based Fairbanks M... (more)

Milwaukee FM units wait between runs at KCS-MILW Joint Agency.