FM Trainmasters

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Thanks, Bob.

Sam

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  Subject: Re: FM Trainmasters


  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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