Re: [CBQ] EMC #103 Test Trip

["John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

I'm pretty sure that car 30 went with it, at least over the D&RGW.

--- On Mon, 12/17/12, John Manion <railbass@comcast.net> wrote:

From: John Manion <railbass@comcast.net>
Subject: [CBQ] EMC #103 Test Trip
To: "CBQ" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, December 17, 2012, 10:55 PM

 

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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