Great Plains Transportation Museum
Railroad Museum in Wichita, KS USA
37°41′11″N 97°19′47″W / 37.68639°N 97.32972°W / 37.68639; -97.32972The Great Plains Transportation Museum is a railroad museum in Wichita, Kansas, United States.[1]
Collection
The museum's collection includes 6 locomotives and several pieces of rolling stock used on freight and passenger trains.
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 4-8-4 steam locomotive #3768.[2]
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway EMD SDFP45 diesel locomotive.[3]
- Burlington Northern Railroad EMD NW2 diesel locomotive #421 (Ex-St. Louis - San Francisco Railway #261)
- Cargill Incorporated Whitcomb 50-DE-58a-1 #316
- Various other diesel locomotives
- An electric locomotive
- A drover's car
- A tank car
- A box car
- Maintenance of way equipment
- A Postal storage car
- A heavyweight baggage car
- Various types of cabooses
External links
- Great Plains Transportation Museum Website
- ATSF 4-8-4 3768 info at the Santa Fe Subjects site-By Evan Werkema
- Photos and history on FP45 #93-By Jim Fuhrman
- Preservation project for Santa Fe FP-45 #93
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