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I have recently acquired an excellent Intermountain Railways model of EMC demonstrator #103, as it appeared on its test run starting on the CB&Q in Dec 1939. I am wondering about what followed 103 on this run, and I asked the D&RGW list, and Jerry Day sent me several pictures of 103 on the D&RGW in May 1940. Behind the units is a dynamometer car, steel with a narrow side door, a ladder to the roof beside it, two single windows, two double windows, and a cupola near one end. The car is riding on four-wheel Pullman trucks.
The photo I am taking this info from is from the Denver Public Library Western History Collection digital file by Otto Perry - OP-11552. It's amazing how much you can blow up these photos with excellent resolution. The letterboard definitely does not say "Denver & Rio Grande Western" and has only one word on it. As the test run began on CB&Q, could this dynanmometer car have been a CB&Q car and used behind 103 throughout its test run? If that was the case, does anyone know which CB&Q car it was and have any photos or other info on it?
- John Manion Denver, CO
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