Minneapolis & St. Louis EMD FTA 545 is about to depart Cedar Lake Yard, Minneapolis, with train 21 for Peoria in this winter scene from 1951. Gary Thompson provided this photo of unknown origin, perhaps a railroad publicity shot. The number 545 was applied to the entire three-unit, 4050-horsepower A-B-A combination, built in 1945. It is unknown whether the lead unit is the 545A or 545C; assuming 545A, it was later renumbered 504, then rebuilt to a GP9m in 1956 or 1957 and renumbered 603. In the 1960 merger into Chicago & North Western it became C&NW 603 and was rebuilt by the Oelwein shops in 1972, emerging with a new number 4303. The long-suffering unit was finally retired in 1990.