FM Trainmasters

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Mon Mar 24 06:42:25 EDT 2008


In a message dated 3/23/2008 11:28:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:


But did anyone ever see a VGN Trainmaster MU'ed with an EMD or Alco? I know
I've read somewhere (the Bowers/Withers book perhaps) that because the TM's
had a pneumatic rather than electric MU system they couldn't be MU'ed with
locos from other manufacturers.This applied only to the P&wv FMs Since VGN
had an all-FM fleet, this may have been of no concern, whereas Wabash had
plenty of other brands and may have specified a common MU system. ALL OTHERS,
(VGN, WAB, ACY, & NKP), if they had MU controls, they were electric and were MUed
with Alco and EMD products. A bigger problem was the mating of different air
brake systems.


Bob Bowers





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