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FM H-16-44
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Fairbanks-Morse· from 1950· model of American 1600hp diesel locomotives
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1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. B&O 9743 and 9737 (FM H16-44s) on Port Covington Line, Baltimore, MD on December 14, 1969 (22336872028): railfan 44· Public domain
what is it?
The FM H-16-44 was a diesel-electric locomotive produced by Fairbanks-Morse from April 1950 – February 1963. The locomotive shared an identical platform and carbody with the predecessor Model FM H-15-44 (but not the FM H-20-44 end cab road switcher which used a different carbody and frame and a larger prime mover), and were equipped with the same eight-cylinder opposed piston engine that had been uprated to 1,600 horsepower (1,200 kW). The H-16-44 was configured in a B-B wheel arrangement, mounted atop a pair of two-axle AAR Type-B road trucks with all axles powered.
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 76 years ago, in 1950.
- 1.2 MW is about 14 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 19 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.5 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1950–1963
- number built
- 299
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Fairbanks-Morse, Canadian Locomotive Company
- top speed
- 105 km/h
- power
- 1.2 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B′B′
- length
- 15.5 m
- weight
- 113 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5426721, Wikipedia: FM H-16-44 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.