RailPictures.Net Photo: UP DC-3 Union Pacific Detector car at Unknown, Nebraska by Mike Danneman

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» Union Pacific’s Kearney Subdivision
» Nebraska, USA (more..)
» July, 1981

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Union Pacific’s unique rail detector car DC-3 smokes it up a bit at is excellerates while inspecting UP’s Kearney Subdivision main line in July 1981. This car was originally built in 1928 as a Brill Model 350 motor car for Detroit & Mackinac and sold to Teledetector Inc. in 1952, where it was converted to a detector car. The car was then sold to UP in April 1954 and eventually numbered DC-3. It was rebuilt twice, in 1961 and 1981—with the final version having added sloped front AND rear windows. The car was retired in December 1986 and sold for scrap.

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