User-applied parts includes cab sunshades, wind deflectors, F-M builder’s plates and front plate. Unlike its Milwaukee Road prototype, the model doesn’t have a bell above the front headlight. The cab interior includes painted crew figures. The latches on the engine-access doors are also separate pieces.Īnother standout detail is the etched-metal grill over the radiator fan. Separate parts include acetal plastic handrails and grab irons. Engraved details, such as the louvers, are sharply defined. The model’s cab, long hood, sill, end steps, and truck sideframes are plastic. The model’s dimensions match H-12-44 drawings in the Simmons-Boardman 1950-52 Locomotive Cyclopedia of American Practice.ĭetails and paint. Most Milwaukee H-10-44s served into the 1980s. The 1,200-hp H-12-44 was introduced in 1950 and had the same carbody as the H-10-44 until 1952. Walthers makes a phase IIa version with two sets of louvers in place of the screened opening. The model has the correct phase IIb carbody with three louvers along the top rear of the carbody sides and a screened opening on the first door behind the radiator shutters. Delivered in 1950, this engine was one of the last H-10-44s built. Our review sample came decorated as Milwaukee Road no. A description of all the H-10-44 phases is given in the July/August 1993 issue of Diesel Era. Railfans and modelers refer to the detail differences that occurred during production of the H-10-44 as phases. (H stood for hood unit, 10 for 1,000-hp, and 44 for its B-B wheel arrangement.) As the end of World War II approached, Fairbanks-Morse debuted a new 1,000-hp switcher for the Milwaukee Road in 1944: the H-10-44. The new Proto 2000 from Walthers HO scale H-10-44 is available in a version that includes a dual-mode Digital Command Control sound decoder that operates on DC or DCC layouts. Many H-10-44s had careers that spanned 40 years. A semi-streamlined carbody developed by famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy made the Fairbanks-Morse H-10-44 a distinctive entry into the diesel switcher market.