The FM H-12-44TS was a light
road switcher version of the
Fairbanks-MorseH-12-44yardswitcher locomotive. Only three of the 1,200-horsepower (890 kW), six-cylinder
opposed piston enginelocomotives (builder numbers 12L1021–12L1023) were manufactured especially for the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in May, 1956. The units had an extended frame to accommodate the addition of a short hood behind the cab, and were configured in a
B-B wheel arrangement and mounted atop a pair of two-axle
AAR Type-A switcher
trucks with all axles powered. H-12-44TSs also came equipped with steam generator units as they were acquired solely for shuttling passenger cars in and around the
Dearborn Station terminal in
Chicago, Illinois.
The locomotives (#541–#543) were delivered in the road's Zebra Stripe paint scheme, though all three would finish out their days on the Santa Fe dressed in the switcher version of the blue and yellow Billboard livery. Coinciding with the end of Santa Fe passenger train service in Chicago, #541 was retired on June 1, 1972, and sold to the Allison Steel Manufacturing Company in October of that year; #542 and #543 were both retired on May 7, 1974, though #543 (the only example to have evaded the scrap yard) was subsequently preserved in
Albuquerque, New Mexico and donated to the
California State Railroad Museum in March 1986. It has since been moved to the
Illinois Railway Museum.[1]
The FM H-12-44TS was a light
road switcher version of the
Fairbanks-MorseH-12-44yardswitcher locomotive. Only three of the 1,200-horsepower (890 kW), six-cylinder
opposed piston enginelocomotives (builder numbers 12L1021–12L1023) were manufactured especially for the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in May, 1956. The units had an extended frame to accommodate the addition of a short hood behind the cab, and were configured in a
B-B wheel arrangement and mounted atop a pair of two-axle
AAR Type-A switcher
trucks with all axles powered. H-12-44TSs also came equipped with steam generator units as they were acquired solely for shuttling passenger cars in and around the
Dearborn Station terminal in
Chicago, Illinois.
The locomotives (#541–#543) were delivered in the road's Zebra Stripe paint scheme, though all three would finish out their days on the Santa Fe dressed in the switcher version of the blue and yellow Billboard livery. Coinciding with the end of Santa Fe passenger train service in Chicago, #541 was retired on June 1, 1972, and sold to the Allison Steel Manufacturing Company in October of that year; #542 and #543 were both retired on May 7, 1974, though #543 (the only example to have evaded the scrap yard) was subsequently preserved in
Albuquerque, New Mexico and donated to the
California State Railroad Museum in March 1986. It has since been moved to the
Illinois Railway Museum.[1]