Nostalgia & History > B&O Fairbanks Morse H16-44s in 1969

B&O 9743 and 9737 (FM H16-44s) on the Port Covington Line, Baltimore, MD on December 14, 1969.  These are smaller than Baby Trainmasters.  A Roger Puta photo.

Enjoy,
Marty Bernard

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Actually they ARE baby Train Masters.
A Train Master is an H24-66.

Wonderful!  Thanks.

Thought the Baby Trainmaster was the H16-66.

Wasn't the "Baby Train Master" an H-16-66?

Steve

Hat's off to Mr. Pluta for the wealth of photos he has left us. Thanks for taking the time to share.

Yes, Baby Trainmasters had six-wheel trucks.  I double checked that before posting the photo.

Marty

Marty, it's the first time I've seen a photo of these locos.
Thanks for posting Roger Puta's slides.   ...Kelly

I hope I find a front end view.
 

FM apparently never officially named any of its locomotive models the "Baby Train Master."  It's purely a railfan moniker, and is therefore never or always wrong, depending on who you talk to. 

In a sidebar titled "When is a Train Master not a Train Master?" in the August 1973 Trains, page 37, J. David Ingles points out that while the H24-66 is undeniably the Train Master, railfans have used "Junior Train Master" and "Baby Train Master" to describe both the four axle H16-44 and six axle H16-66 over the years.  He suggests calling the H16-66 "Junior" and the H16-44 "Baby," but it's pretty clear that 42 years later, the railfan community has yet to reach consensus.

I guess we should go to the infallible source, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_H-16-66

Marty

MartyBernard Wrote:
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> B&O 9743 and 9737 (FM H16-44s) on the Port
> Covington Line, Baltimore, MD on December 14,
> 1969.  These are smaller than Baby
> Trainmasters.  A Roger Puta photo.
>
> Enjoy,
> Marty Bernard

Thanks again Marty for sharing these photos, especially the B&O and Western Maryland photos; however I have never heard of the Port Covington Line in Baltimore anywhere on the B&O.  Port Covington was the terminal for the Western Maryland in Baltimore and the photo does not look like those engines are on the WM.  Port Covington yard is gone now as CSX sold the property back in the 1980's.  All trains operate over on the former B&O to Riverside Yard and Locust Point Yard which are joined together near Fort McHenry in South Baltimore.
John in White Marsh, Maryland

MartyBernard Wrote:

> I guess we should go to the infallible source,
> Wikipedia:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_H-16-66

...which says railfans called the H16-66 the Baby Train Master.  Unfortunately, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_H-16-44 says the same thing about the four-axle units. :-/

my first thought was Baby Train Master ... there are plenty of photos in the train mags of the 70s with the 44s being called BTMs

Looking at the background, I am more inclined to think
that these are the tracks that go into the Curtis Bay Yard.