1) Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Locomotive 811 - City Southern. KCS 400 was overhauled by the 17) Missouri Pacific Baggage Car – Exact history and Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe steam locomotive No. railroad before being donated to the museum. number unknown. Built between 1910 and 1930. 811 was built in 1902 by the Baldwin Locomotive 8) Burlington Northern 10410 – Built by NOTE – No.s 18, 19 and 20 are displayed alongside Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No. 811 ended the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad’s the freight depot and are accessible from the gift its career with the Santa Fe as a switch engine in Havelock, Nebraska shops in September 1954. and shop in the depot. Chanute, Kansas, being taken out of service on July was officially retired in November of 1992. The 18) Missouri Pacific 50’ 794826 / 15451 – 23, 1952. After almost two years in storage, the “Streamlined” cupola was a distinctive CB&Q design Steel boxcar built in June of 1969. . locomotive was donated to Atchison on June 1, 1954 intended to impart a “modern railroad” impression 19) United States Army Transportation Corps and placed on display. on shippers Boxcar – Following World War II and in light of the 2) Missouri Pacific 40’ Boxcar 9249 - 40’ 9) Chicago Burlington & Quincy Chair Car 4703 start of the Cold War, the US Military began to were once the backbone of most railroad’s freight “Silver Gleam” – Built by Budd in 1940, the Silver prepare for the possibility of a third major conflict in car fleets and were used to ship anything from Gleam saw service on the Silver Streak Zephyr Europe. Railroads played a major part in moving furniture to grain. By the 1970’s larger and more between Kansas City, Omaha and Lincoln. troops and supplies during WWII and it was felt that specialized cars pushed the once ubiquitous 40’ 10) Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railway Post that role would be reprised should WWIII erupt. To boxcar to the wayside. Built in 1926. Office 1604 “Silver Pouch” – Built by Budd in that end, the United States developed and built a 3) Missouri Pacific 9127 – This car’s exact October 1952, this was the last stainless steel large fleet of freight cars and locomotives that would history is unknown, thought it was built in 1936. Railway Post Office car purchased by the CB&Q. be suitable for use on railroads in Europe and 4) Missouri Pacific 40’ Boxcar 121175 - Originally RPO’s were used to sort and carry mail on passenger elsewhere. The freight cars were built by the Pressed built in 1925 as steel framed boxcar with wood sides . Until 1967, much of America’s mail was Steel Car Co. and known as the “Knockdown Fleet”. and rebuilt into its present configuration in October carried by and sorted aboard passenger trains. The cars were designed to be easily taken apart and of 1950, this car is one of a group of cars that were 11) Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Caboose 999575 shipped overseas as kits to be reassembled into specially equipped to carry less than carload freight 12) Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Caboose 999952 anything from a flatcar to a or boxcar. on Missouri Pacific passenger trains between 1951 13) Fairmont Push Cart – Used by track crews to Thankfully, their intended use never came to be and and 1960. The cars were not interchanged with carry tools and track materials. Could be pulled by a many of the cars were placed in use at various other railroads and wore a special paint scheme to motor car / speeder or pushed along by hand. The military bases in the US. match the Mopac’s “Eagle” streamliner passenger cart could be lifted off the track and out of the way 20) Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Caboose 2207 – trains. by a couple of workers. Santa Fe class CE-5 caboose built in April 1928. 5) Burlington Northern Water 973151 – 14) Missouri Pacific Maintenance of Way Diner Rebuilt in the early 1970’s for use as a transfer Used to haul water for MOW projects, this car was 14259 – Built in 1962 by the MoPac’s DeSoto caboose in Kansas City. constructed by placing an older (circa 1920’s) riveted Missouri shops as part of a group of 50 cars intended 21) Missouri Pacific 50’ Boxcar – exact number tank car tank on a newer (circa 1950) flatcar. for use in carrying mail and express on passenger unknown, dates from the 1940’s – 1950’s. Originally Great Northern Railroad X6518, the car trains. MP 14259 was rebuilt as a dining car for track 22)Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Passenger Coach became BN 973151 after the 1970 merger that crews in the early 1970’s. 2865 – Built in 1947 by Pullman Standard for service created the Burlington Northern. 15) Missouri Pacific Snowplow X5790 – Built at the on the Santa Fe’s “El Capitan” passenger . Used 6) Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Caboose 999468 – MoPac’s Atchison shops in 1928, utilizing the frame in Amtrak service from 1971 to 1981 and then sold Built in 1942 by the AT&SF and rebuilt into its of a former steam locomotive tender. The plow into private ownership. present configuration in 1970. It is an excellent remained in service into the late 1980’s and was – Hand powered dock crane built around example of the iconic Santa Fe cupola caboose. mainly used on the now abandoned Central Branch 1894. Was used at the CB&Q freight depot in Home to the conductor and rear brakeman, line running northwest from Atchison. Atchison before being moved to the museum. served as a train crew’s home away from 16) Missouri Pacific Caboose 13615 – – Built in Shanty – Switchman’s shanty from the south end of home. November of 1973 by International Car Company, the CB&Q yard in St. Joseph Missouri. 7) Kansas City Southern Caboose 400 – Built in 1976, this is a “Wide Vision” caboose. The “Wide Vision” this bay window caboose was the first of the last design was the most modern incarnation of the group (#400-406) of cabooses built for the Kansas cupola caboose design. July 13, 2016 18 19 20 21 22

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