At some point in time someone got tired of hearing complaints from employees whose job it was to assemble power lash up's like this one. Thus ease of use won out, over the classic design of the EMD F-unit nose. When these units were traveling north through Kentucky on the way to trade in and scraping. Several were held Danville, Kentucky and the local railroad employees stated that we could have anything that we wanted from them. I got two or three builders plates which were all that was left on the five or six engines, plus some smaller plates from control stands. My friends actually removed several front number boards. I remember that I tried to close the Mu doors on several different units for photos, but had lo luck as each Mu door had a bolt welded to it's inside in such a way that the bolt head was past the edge of the door preventing the door from moving. They were all done the same way. None of the units had batteries, bells, horns or other nice parts.
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All the F3s shown here are passenger-equipped units, and the lead unit has its air reservoirs relocated to the roof to provide for a larger water supply under the frame for the stream generator. Such power was usually assigned by the Southern to the Royal Palm, Peach Queen and the Piedmont Limited. The latter train was also used to ferry recently-inspected locomotives from Spencer Shops, southward to Atlanta, GA, and so it often had several RS3s leading the passenger Fs.
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