----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 5:55
PM
Subject: [CBQ] EMC #103 Test Trip
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
No virus found in this
message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2013.0.2805 / Virus
Database: 2637/5965 - Release Date: 12/16/12