Nostalgia & History > Loewy Design on FM switchers

Discussion below re. SP FM switchers prompted me to dig
out photo of an H10-44 with the Loewy designed roof overhang,
as seen on NYC 9111 in Erie, PA on Oct 23, 1965. I always
felt the later H10's and the H12's without this feature were
really lacking something.

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Nice.

KG

Agreed. The Loewy version looks far more streamlined and less big box.
Bob

Those FM's are too classic. Don't believe I have ever noticed that radio emblem
as shown on the NYC 9111 anywhere else before. Before I saw the word RADIO
I thought we might have a nuclear-powered FM there.
Thanks for the excellent photo.

Yup. Paint it Santa Fe blue - yellow, and that's what they had at CSRM. I think it was a couple years ago, now that I think of it - not the last time I was there.

Thanks for the follow up!

Walter

PS I agree, they look better Lowey-style.

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Don't forget that semicircular window ahead of the side cab windows....

Mark

mwbridgwater Wrote:

> Don't forget that semicircular window ahead of the
> side cab windows....

Was that a fireman's-side-only feature on NYC H10-44's and H12-44's?

http://rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc9116s.jpg

I know early H15-44's, H16-44's, H20-44's typically had those semicircles, but they don't appear to have been common on early H10-44's or H12-44's.

Evan_Werkema Wrote:
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> Was that a fireman's-side-only feature on NYC
> H10-44's and H12-44's?

My computer has forgotten how to "copy and paste".... but an internet images search for Fairbanks Morse H10-44 shows the window being on both sides of other road's units (Don Ross photos).

Mark

mwbridgwater Wrote:

> My computer has forgotten how to "copy and
> paste".... but an internet images search for
> Fairbanks Morse H10-44 shows the window being on
> both sides of other road's units (Don Ross
> photos).

I would be interested to see the photos you found. Using those search terms in Google Images doesn't turn up any photos of H10-44's with semicircular windows. Going down the list of H10-44 owners, I'm also not finding any photos showing units with semicircles:

Apache Railway: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0102/apache200.jpg

AT&SF: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0101/sf500.jpg , https://farm1.static.flickr.com/741/23151109169_3863c5b3ac_b.jpg

B&O: http://www.american-rails.com/images/BOH1044MB.jpg

Chehalis Western: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0604/cw492.jpg

C&NW: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/o94.jpg , http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1000/cnw1051.jpg , http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1000/cnw1058.jpg

Columbia & Cowlitz: http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/photos/bcr/PGE_D-1.jpg

D&RGW: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,2193174

Frisco: http://rr-fallenflags.org/slsf/slsf0284f18.jpg , https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,2064153,2064161#2064161

Indianapolis Union: http://rr-fallenflags.org/misc-i/iury10dsa.jpg , http://rr-fallenflags.org/misc-i/iur13ads.jpg

Kentucky & Indiana Terminal: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0500/kit61.jpg , http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/5/2/5/9525.1126962000.jpg

Milwaukee Road:http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0301/mil1802.jpg , http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0301/mil1803.jpg , http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0301/mil1817.jpg

Minnesota Western (later to MN&S): http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1005/mw51.jpg , http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0105/mb004.jpg

Monon: http://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/fileSendAction/fcType/0/fcOid/55630645929942472/filePointer/55630645929942489/fodoid/55630645929942480/imageType/LARGE/inlineImage/true/Monon_H10.jpg , http://www.monon.org/2013potw/06-23LPOTW_FM18.jpg

Nickel Plate: http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=114135 , http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=114138

NYC: http://rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc8307dsa.jpg , http://rr-fallenflags.org/nyc/nyc9108m28.jpg

PRR: http://rr-fallenflags.org/prr/prr8242s.jpg , http://rr-fallenflags.org/prr/prr8243s.jpg

P&LE: http://rr-fallenflags.org/ple/ple9102s.jpg

PC&Y: http://rr-fallenflags.org/misc-p/pcy1s.jpg

TRRA: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,2719965

Union Pacific: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0201/up1300.jpg

Wabash: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1301/wab381.jpg

Weyerhaeuser: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,3616080

Some early NYC H12-44's have the semicircle on the fireman's side (9111 is an H12-44), but that's all I'm finding.

If that radio symbol didn't say "radio" I would think it referred to radioactivity, maybe the first nuclear powered switcher.