The Museum of the American Railroad, formerly known as the Age of Steam Railroad Museum, is a railroad museum in

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. The museum has more than 70 pieces of steam, diesel, passenger, and freight railroad equipment; guests may walk through some of the equipment on guided tours.

History

The museum began as a small exhibit at the

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in 1963, and continued as a staple of the annual fair. It officially became a museum in 1986. It remained at its original site at

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until November 2011. The museum has fully moved to Frisco, Texas; the move was based on a strategic plan, called Visions 2006, which called for a comprehensive reorganization of the museum, including new facilities, new governance and new programs. The museum's offices and some exhibits are temporarily housed at the Frisco Heritage Museum while construction continues on the museum's new location two blocks south. TrainTopia, a

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model train layout, opened in July 2018 in the Frisco Discovery Center next to the museum's site.

Collection

Frisco June 2019 28 (Museum of the American Railroad)

The collection includes:

Locomotives

Steam *

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#4018: Big Boy

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(Built by

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in 1941) * St. Louis-San Francisco Railway #4501:

4-8-4 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles and four trailing wheels on two axles. The type wa ...

( Baldwin, 1942) Famous for pulling the

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* St. Louis-San Francisco Railway #1625:

2-10-0 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-10-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, ten powered and coupled driving wheels on five axles, and no trailing wheels. This arrangement ...

(

, 1918) * Dallas Union Terminal #7: 0-6-0 ( Baldwin, 1923) Diesel *

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#2379: Fairbanks Morse H12-44 Built 1956 *Colorado & Wyoming #1107: Baldwin VO-1000 Built 1943 *

#6913:

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Built 1969 *

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#8000:

ALCO RSD-1 The ALCO RSD-1 was a diesel-electric locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). This model was a road switcher type rated at and rode on three-axle trucks, having a C-C wheel arrangement. It was often used in much the same ...

Built 1942 (Originally an

ALCO RS-1 The ALCO RS-1 was a 4-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by Alco-GE between 1941 and 1953 and the American Locomotive Company from 1953 to 1960. ALCO subsidiary Montreal Locomotive Works built an additional three RS-1s in 1954. This model has ...

built for New York, Susquehanna & Western as #231, rebuilt by ALCO as one of the first RSD-1s) * Santa Fe #49:

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Built 1952 (formerly

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#9167, repainted into Santa Fe Red Warbonnet colors in 2006) * Santa Fe #97: EMD SDFP45 Built 1967 * Santa Fe #M-160: Doodlebug Built by

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in 1931. Re-engined in 1952 by AT&SF with an EMD 6-567B. * Santa Fe #2404: EMC NW2, built in July, 1939 * Santa Fe #2260: Baldwin Locomotive Works DS4-4-1000, built February, 1948 * Santa Fe #608:

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H12-44, built November, 1951 * Santa Fe #59L: American Locomotive Company PA-1 Built 1948, now under restoration. Also known as Delaware and Hudson Railway #16 and

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#DH-16 * Santa Fe #2428:

Santa Fe CF7 The Santa Fe CF7 is an EMD F-unit railroad locomotive that has had its streamlined carbody removed and replaced with a custom-made, "general purpose" body in order to adapt the unit for switching duty. All of the conversions were performed by the ...

* Santa Fe #2447:

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#10: Whitcomb Locomotive Company 1945 Class 8-DM-67 (21 inch (Hunt) gauge) *

#MW8209: EMD F7B 1949 (Originally SP #6151C, renumbered when converted for snow plow service) * Vulcan Materials Company Plymouth Locomotive Works: Model ML8 1943 (30-ton) Electric * Pennsylvania Railroad #4903: GG1 AT&SF -49

Passenger equipment

Sleepers *

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#2997: (Ex-AT&SF 1642 "Pine Ring") Budd 10-

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, 6- Double bedroom, Built 1950 *

#2913: " Pacific Gardens" (Ex-UP #1417) Budd Originally a 10-

, 6- Double bedroom. Converted to crew lounge/dorm by Amtrak, Built 1950 *

#2090: Budd

Slumbercoach The Slumbercoach is an 85-foot-long, 24 single room, eight double room streamlined sleeping car. Built in 1956 by the Budd Company for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad for service on the ''Denver Zephyr'', subsequent orders were placed ...

Built 1959. Originally

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#699 "Southland" then bought by

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and ran as #329 "Loch Tarbet". *

#2532: (Ex-B&O 7102 "Gull") Budd 16-Duplex

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, 4- Double bedroom, Built 1954 * Pullman Company "Glengyle" :7- Compartment, 2-

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, Earliest known surviving heavyweight all steel sleeping car, built by Pullman in 1911 * Pullman Company "Goliad": 12- Open section, 1-

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, Built 1926. Served almost exclusively on Southern Pacific's Sunset Limited. One of the first cars air-conditioned in the 1930s * Pullman Company "Glen Nevis": 6- Compartment, 3-

, Built 1925 * Pullman Company "McQuaig": 12- Open section, 1-

, Built 1925 Coaches * Santa Fe #3197: chair-observation Pullman Company 1940 *

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#1143: chair car Pullman Company 1920 * St. Louis-San Francisco Railway #759: chair car

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1912 Lounges * Santa Fe #3231: parlor-club car Pullman Company 1914 * Santa Fe #1363: Lounge-dormitory-barbershop ''San Bartolo,'' Pullman Company 1926 Diners * Santa Fe #1550: Lunch counter diner Budd Company 1948 * Santa Fe #1554: Lunch counter diner Budd Company 1948 * Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad #438: dining car

1937 Other * Fort Worth and Denver Railway Business car:- ''Texland,'' Pullman Company 1900, Originally Colorado & Southern Railway observation car. *

Railway Post Office-Baggage Car #916: Pullman Company 1918

Transit Equipment

Metra Electric District (Ex-

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) "Stream-Liner" Built by

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(First order #1501-1630, 1971-1972) and Bombardier Transportation (Second order #1631-1666, 1978-1979) * 1548 * 1552 * 1601 * 1608 * 1661 * And five more

Freight equipment

* Kansas City Southern #7460: single sheathed boxcar *Kansas City Southern Lines #107859: boxcar *Lone Star Producing Company #1817: tank car *Western Pacific Railroad #68652: boxcar *Texas & Pacific Railroad #X4446: boxcar *Packers Car Line (Armour & Company) PCX 4063: Ice Refrigerator Car *Packers Car Line (Armour & Company) PCX 4005: Ice Refrigerator Car *Genesee & Wyoming Railroad #GNWR 1032: Mechanical Refrigerator Car

Cabooses

* Santa Fe

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#999311: Built 1949 * Santa Fe

#1618 *

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#2332: drover caboose Built 1920 *

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#932: Built 1971

Speeders/Handcars

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#MT14444M:

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Model M-14 Built 1977 (Onan 2 cyl. engine) * Track-Work Incorporated (Ex- Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad) #RIMC 915:

Model S2E Built 1955 (Fairmont 1 cyl. engine) * Gifford-Hill & Company #H109: handcar, Donated 1964

Structures

* Houston & Texas Central Railroad Depot, ca. 1905 *Houston & Texas Central Railroad Handcar Shed, Dallas, TX ca. 1905 *Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad Interlocking Tower 19 Dallas Railroad museum 2

Road vehicles

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Ford 1-ton box truck, 1941

Formerly owned equipment

* Texas & Northern bobber caboose *

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#3329 * New Orleans Public Service Incorporated Electric Streetcar #919 * Econo-Rail Inc., Procter & Gamble Plant, Dallas, TX #PG 13: S-2 Diesel Locomotive * Econo-Rail Inc., Houston, TX #E-R 10: S-6 Diesel Locomotive * New York Central Railroad Company # 3001:

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* Texas & Pacific Railway #638: 2-10-4 steam locomotive

TrainTopia

The museum has a permanent exhibit called "TrainTopia – A Railroad Odyssey in Miniature" in the Frisco Discovery Center next to the museum. This is a 2,500-square-foot professionally-built

model railroad layout donated to the museum by the Sanders family; a $300,000 donation from the Ryan Foundation funded moving the layout and preparing the exhibit space. The scene spans Texas to Arizona, and includes details such as the dramatic rock formations of the Four Corners region near New Mexico, an animated downtown Dallas street scene, the Palo Duro Drive-In Theater with a movie playing, a West Texas refinery, and working saw mills in Colorado. A custom light show changes the exhibit from day to night. The layout has hundreds of locomotives and cars, most made by LGB in Germany.

Gallery

Exhibit at Fair Park until November 2011

File:Union Pacific EMD DDA40X at Fair Park 09.2006.jpg, Union Pacific EMD DDA40X File:Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 -4018 at Fair Park 09.2006 0.jpg, Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 -4018 File:Santa Fe EMD FP45 diesel -97 at Fair Park 09.2006.jpg, Santa Fe EMD FP45 diesel -97 File:Santa Fe Caboose at Fair Park 09.2006 2.jpg, Santa Fe Caboose File:Santa Fe -M-160 Doodlebug at Fair Park 09.2006.jpg, Santa Fe -M-160 Doodlebug File:Santa Fe -49 EMD F7 at Fair Park 09.2006 -1.jpg, Santa Fe -49 EMD F7 File:Pennsylvania Railroad -4903 GG1 at Fair Park 09.2006.jpg, Pennsylvania Railroad -4903 GG1 File:Colorado & Wyoming -1107 Baldwin VO-1000 at Fair Park 09.2006.jpg, Colorado & Wyoming -1107 Baldwin VO-1000 File:Lone Star Producing Company tank car -1817 at Fair Park 09.2006 1.jpg, Lone Star Producing Company tank car -1817 File:Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad dining car -438 Fair Park 09.2006.jpg, Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad dining car -438

References

External links

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