The line was only moderately successful, as a total of 82 cab and 28 booster units was sold through 1949, when production was ended.
F-M retained the services of renowned industrial designer Raymond Loewy to create a visually impressive carbody for the Erie-built. GE built the locomotives at its Erie, Pennsylvania facility, thereby giving rise to the name “ Erie-built”. Assembly of the 2,000 horsepower (1.49 MW) unit, which was mounted on an A1A-A1A wheelset, was subcontracted out to General Electric due to lack of space at F-M's Wisconsin plant. In December 1945 F-M produced its first streamlined, cab/carbody dual service diesel locomotive as direct competition to such models as the ALCO FA and PA and EMD FT and E-unit. Fairbanks-Morse, along with its competing firms, sought to capitalize on this new market opportunity. Following World War II, North American railways began phasing out their aging steam locomotives and sought to replace them with state-of-the-art diesel locomotives at an ever-increasing rate due to the unfavourable economics of steam propulsion. Government in the name of the Navy commandeered all F-M O-P production well into 1944). All national locomotive production was subject to strict wartime restrictions regarding the number and type of railroad-related products they could manufacture (the U.S. F-M had yet to produce a railroad road locomotive, or any locomotive prior to the 1944 switcher which was built several years after its conception all other locomotive producers, except for General Motors (and a few others who manufactured small industrial locomotives), were forced by the government to continue to build reciprocating steam locomotives during much of the war.
Milwaukee Road #760 (originally delivered as #1802), the first Fairbanks-Morse locomotive constructed in their own plant, is now preserved and on display at the Illinois Railway Museum. In 1944, F-M began production of its own 1,000-horsepower (0.75 MW) yard switcher, the H-10-44. In 1939, the SLCC placed F-M 800 hp (600 kW) 8 by 10 inches (203 mm × 254 mm) engines in six streamlined railcars, which are known today as the FM OP800. A 5 x 6 powered the plant switcher at F-M's Beloit, Wisconsin manufacturing facility. Louis Car Company, or SLCC, and scrapped in 1953). Additionally, two of the 5 × 6s were placed in an experimental center cab switcher locomotive under development by the Reading Railroad (road #87, built in 1939 by the St. Not long after, the company produced a 300 hp (220 kW) 5 by 6 inches (127 mm × 152 mm) engine that saw limited use in railcar applications on the B&O, Milwaukee Road, and a few other lines. Since 1932, Fairbanks-Morse had specialized in the manufacture of opposed piston diesel engines for United States Naval vessels. A combined total of 165 units (123 cab-equipped lead A units and 42 cabless booster B units) were produced by F-M and the CLC between 19.
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Individual locomotives in this series were commonly referred to as “ C-liners”. The Consolidated line, or C-line, was a series of diesel-electric railway locomotive designs produced by Fairbanks-Morse and its Canadian licensee, the Canadian Locomotive Company. A builder's photo of F-M model CPA-24-5 demonstrator units #4802 (foreground) and #4801.
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