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From Wikipedia:
- The EMC-TA was a model of diesel locomotive produced for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad by the Electro-Motive Corporation in 1937.
In 1937 the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad began operating streamlined passenger trains on select routes. To power these trains the Rock Island bought six TA locomotives (numbered 601-606) from the Electro Motive Company. This phot shows four of these locomotives under construction at the EMC plant in La Grange, Illinois. EMC Builder's photo, Cliff Downey collection.
Lawrence W. Sauer, a Minneapolis machinist, built this EMC TA trainset. He operted it in Minnehaha Park. It represents 27 months of full-time work. More than 1,750 rivets went into it. From "Popular Science", March 1953.
