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I've found the photos that tell me the 103 was equipped with steam generators. There's an article in the April 1975 Model Railroader on the prototype FTs, as well as a modelling article (the cover photo shows Gordon Odegard's Milwaukee Road FT model). The prototype article has a photo credited to R. V. Nixon on p. 49, with the 103 out on the mainline with the North Coast Limited. It's a "down on" shot, clearly showing the boxy air intake vents on both FTB units, of the style used on contemporary E units above their steam generator compartments. More important is the photo on the opposite page, with good detail of the pilot of the 103A . On the fireman's side of the drawbar are two air lines, one with a smaller diameter hose than the other. The larger of the two lines is the air brake line; the smaller almost without doubt is a communication signal line -- this type of line is only found on locomotives intended for (at least part-time) passenger service. The real give away is the still-larger line found on the engineer's side of the drawbar. It terminates with a Barco steam-line coupling. The B unit closest to the camera in the last-mentioned photo has one more clue. On the lower portion of the carbody, between the front end and the first engineroom door, there is a shadow which appears to be a small hatch cover, similar to the doors covering boiler water doors on later boiler-equipped F units. And right above that door, on the roof of the unit, is a projecting U-shaped pipe which is in all likelihood a water overfill.
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