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.