The Most Useful Locomotive Ever Built.
Era & Sweetland. This is the story of the Train Master, marketed by Fairbanks-Morse as "the most useful locomotive ever built." The TM did haul Southern Pacific commuters, move coal on the Virginian Railway, and push trains over the Appalachian mountains, but the 2,400-horsepower H24-66 did its work on a much smaller scale than its designers had hoped - only 127 Train Masters were ever built. 132 pgs., 250 B&W photos, 8½"x 11", sfbd. #0R02663