The F units at Spencer gather round their grandfather, the FT demonstrator, which takes center stage on the turn table for the last night shoot.
The EMD FT demonstration F-units pose under the lights during a night photo session in Spencer, NC on May 30, 2014. Paying homage to O. Winston Link, this was shot on 4x5 black-and-white sheet fil... (more)
The EMD FT demonstrator and matching B unit pose in the yard as the Alco FPA-4 runs around on the adjacent track.
Southern Railway 2501 shoves the 103 to the wash rack in early Thursday operations at "Streamliners at Spencer", held at the NCTM.
Some of the streamliner F units gather round the turn table.
Waiting it's turn for a bath, EMD FT #103 catches some morning sun. The CNTP reporting marks used for transit are for the Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific (CNO&TP). The CNTP reporting ... (more)
Mid 20th Century or 2014? With ditch lights absent and very little modern day infrastructure visible, Electro-Motive Division FT Demonstrator No. 103 sits alongside an original Clinchfield ... (more)
Reproducing a Classic. One of my favorite railroad photos (See it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ATSF_DL_in_Kansas.jpg) involves the cleaning of ATSF FT #103 in 1943. 71 years late... (more)
Having been the late arrival on Wednesday evening, the EMD Demonstrator FTA #103A didn't get its bath before being publicly displayed. Thursday morning the museum staff and volunteers at the Nort... (more)
Last, but certainly not the least... The final locomotive to be added to the Streamliners at Spencer lineup (a phenomenal total of 26 total locomotives) basks in the morning sun on t... (more)
Spencer Bound! EMD Demonstrator FT 103 rests in the back of the Museum of Transportation's yard awaiting pickup by a Union Pacific movement. After a 15 mile trip on UP rails, the unit will ... (more)