Museum of the American Railroad











Age of Steam Railroad Museum
Museum of the American Railroad
Established1986
Location
Frisco, Texas, United States
Collectionsrailway rolling stock
Websitewww.dallasrailwaymuseum.com

The Museum of the American Railroad, formerly known as the Age of Steam Railroad Museum, is a railroad museum in Frisco, Texas. The museum has a large collection of steam, diesel, passenger, and freight railroad equipment, and is noted for allowing guests to walk through some of the equipment on guided tours.




Contents





  • 1 History


  • 2 Collection

    • 2.1 Locomotives


    • 2.2 Passenger equipment


    • 2.3 Freight equipment


    • 2.4 Cabooses


    • 2.5 Structures



  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links




History


The museum began as a small exhibit at the State Fair of Texas in 1963, and continued as a staple of the annual fair, officially becoming a museum in 1986.[1] It remained at its original site at Fair Park until closing in November 2011.[2] The museum has fully relocated to Frisco, Texas;[3][4] 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.[5] The museum's offices, store, and some exhibits are temporarily housed at the Frisco Heritage Museum while construction continues on the museum's new location two blocks south.[6]



Collection


The items in the collection are as follows:



Locomotives



  • Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 #4018


  • St. Louis-San Francisco Railway 4-8-4 #4501 built in 1942. Ran overnight passenger service as the Frisco Meteor between St. Louis, Tulsa, and Oklahoma City.


  • Santa Fe EMD FP45 diesel #97


  • Santa Fe EMD F7 diesel #49 (formerly Canadian National #9167, repainted into Santa Fe Warbonnet colors in 2006)

  • Southern Pacific Fairbanks Morse H12-44 diesel #2379

  • Colorado & Wyoming Baldwin VO-1000 diesel #1107


  • Union Pacific EMD DDA40X Centennial diesel #6913


  • Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 #4903


  • St. Louis-San Francisco Railway #1625, a 2-10-0 Russian Decapod, built in 1918. Acquired after intermediate service with the Eagle-Picher Mining Co.

  • Dallas Union Terminal 0-6-0 #7


  • Santa Fe Doodlebug M-160


  • New York, Susquehanna & Western/United States Army ALCO RSD-1 #3000


  • Santa Fe #2404 EMC NW2 diesel, built in July, 1939, second-oldest existing Santa Fe diesel locomotive


  • Santa Fe #2260 Baldwin Locomotive Works DS4-4-1000, built February, 1948 the only surviving Santa Fe Baldwin diesel


  • Santa Fe #608 Fairbanks-Morse H12-44 diesel, built November, 1951


  • Santa Fe #59L American Locomotive Company PA-1 passenger diesel, built October, 1948. Under restoration after being wrecked in Mexico around 1982 and repatriated to the U.S. in 2000 by the Smithsonian Institution and Doyle McCormack.


Passenger equipment



  • Amtrak sleeper #2997


  • Amtrak sleeper #2090


  • Texas and Pacific Railway RPO #916


  • Texas and Pacific Railway chair car #1143


  • St. Louis-San Francisco Railway chair car #759


  • Pullman Company sleeper Glengyle


  • Pullman Company sleeper Goliad


  • Pullman Company sleeper Glen Nevis


  • Pullman Company sleeper McQuaig


  • Santa Fe parlor-club car #3231


  • Santa Fe chair-observation #3197


  • Santa Fe counter diner #1550


  • Santa Fe lunch counter diner #1554


  • Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad dining car #438


  • Fort Worth and Denver Railway Business car- Texland


  • Santa Fe Lounge-dormitory-barbershop #1363 San Bartolo


  • Amtrak Slumbercoach Southland/Loch Tarbet


Freight equipment



  • Kansas City Southern single sheathed boxcar #7460

  • Lone Star Producing Company tank car #1817


Cabooses



  • Santa Fe Caboose #999311


  • Cotton Belt drover caboose #2332

  • Texas & Northern bobber caboose


Structures



  • Houston & Texas Central Railroad Depot, ca. 1905

  • Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad Interlocking Tower 19


See also


  • List of museums in North Texas


References




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  2. ^ http://www.museumoftheamericanrailroad.org/


  3. ^ http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/frisco/headlines/20120901-museums-move-to-frisco-means-prized-collection-of-locomotives-train-cars-to-hit-the-tracks-again.ece


  4. ^ "Museum of the American Railroad website". Retrieved February 4, 2019.


  5. ^ http://www.museumoftheamericanrailroad.org/Portals/0/Visions_Web.pdf


  6. ^ http://www.museumoftheamericanrailroad.org




External links


  • Museum of the American Railroad

Coordinates: 33°08′40″N 96°50′00″W / 33.144513°N 96.833444°W / 33.144513; -96.833444







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