| The one that started it all, GM 103 was built in 1939 by Electro Motive as an attempt to sell the railroads of the US on the idea of diesel power. No stranger to this yard as this locomotive had visited Spencer to demonstrate to the Southern Railway a diesel at work, later becoming a Southern unit itself. It is now owned by the Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, MO which has restored it back to its original look while out on demonstration runs. Behind it is one of its B units, also of Southern Railway heritage and now under the ownership of VMT at Roanoke,VA. |