Collection Type: RAIL: PASSENGER

Making use of a streamlined Raymond Lowey body design, this GG-1 class, 2-C+C-2 electric locomotive has 7,500 HP and a top speed of 100 mph. It was used in both passenger and freight service in the Northeast Corridor until 1986, renumbered as Amtrak #4916. The GG1 was 79 feet 6 inches (24.23 m) long and weighed 475,000 pounds.The locomotive's frame was in two halves joined with a ball and socket joint, allowing the locomotive to negotiate sharper curves. The body rested on the frame and was clad in welded steel plates. The control cabs were near the center of the locomotive on each side of the main oil-cooled transformer and oil-fired train-heating boiler. This arrangement provided for greater crew safety in a collision and provided for bi-directional operation of the locomotive. Using Whyte notation for steam locomotives, each frame is a 4-6-0 locomotive, which in the Pennsylvania Railroad classification system is a "G". The GG1 has two such frames back to back, 4-6-0+0-6-4. The related AAR wheel arrangement classification is 2-C+C-2. This means one frame mounted upon a set of two axles unpowered (the "2") and three axles powered (the "C") hinged with the ball and socket to another frame of the same design (the +). The unpowered "2" axles are at either end of the locomotive.

ITAX #54. Budd self-propelled Rail Diesel Car (RDC-1) built in 1954 has two Detroit diesel engines (275 h.p. each) with a top speed of 85mph. The Budd Rail Diesel Car, RDC, or Buddliner, is a self-propelled diesel multiple unit (DMU); the cars to operate singly, or in multiple.

Built 1949, built by American Car & Foundry for the UP as 5812 Baggage-RPO, Baggage-Mail Car; last use UP MW #903673.

Mississippi Central #252 - Coach Car, Barney & Smith 1905

Delaware & Hudson #400 - (D&H) - Office Car, Pullman 1911, former United States Navy locomotive USN #700440, GE 25 Tonner.

Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway #90 - (Monon Railroad, a/k/a "The Hoosier Line) Business car built by CI&L at Lafayette IN shops 1916, retired 1948. The Monon Railroad was the first class "A" railroad to become fully dieselized.

Also known as #7147, this Pullman passenger coach was built 1929, generator added to 7200, as CB&Q 7200.

Pullman built the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad “Aleutian” heavyweight office car in 1923. That railroad’s vice president and general manager of the eastern lines used the car in 1940. Tagged the “office car,” railroad officials used cars like the Aleutian to entertain customers and guests of the company, usually shippers, bankers, or politicians.  Wealthy families also owned private cars for travel in privacy and comfort, just as they use private jets today. Fun fact: HBO’s Emmy award-winning film “Truman,” shot in spring 1995, featured the Aleutian car as a stand-in for the Ferdinand Magellan car. We have a star on our museum grounds!

Featuring “all the comforts of home,” the car contains:

In 1952, Burlington rebuilt and modernized the car, installing air conditioning, self-contained electrical and hot water systems, and roller bearings, giving it a rebuilt weight of over 102 tons. The National Museum of Transportation received the car in 1970.

St. Louis - San Francisco #251 "Normandy" - Baggage-Mail, Pullman-Standard 1947. Combination baggage, 30 ft (9.1 m) mail. This car ran on the Meteor, a named passenger train operated by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (a.k.a. SLSF or "the Frisco"). It ran overnight between Oklahoma City and St. Louis via Tulsa and was later extended to Lawton, Oklahoma on July 18, 1955.