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 be transferred to NS for its journey to the North Carolina Transportation Museum for the Streamliners in Spencer event. This FT will certainly be the centerpiece of the show considering its importance to the diesel locomotive world. Part of the 4 unit set dubbed later as "the diesel that did it", 103A toured the country in the early 1940s as an alternative motive power option for freight railroads. Though it stoked fear in the minds of every steam operating crew, this unit is arguably the most historically significant diesel in the world, and its presence at Spencer will surely be felt. As an aside, the steam locomotive visible is Alton and Southern #12, a three-cylinder 0-8-0 built by Alco in 1926.
