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The Museum of the American Railroad, formerly known as the Age of Steam Railroad Museum, is a railroad museum in Frisco, Texas. [1] The museum has more than 70 pieces of steam, diesel, passenger, and freight railroad equipment sitting on 15 acres making it one of the largest historic rail collections in the US.
Frisco 4501, an oil-fired 4-8-4 [52] on static display at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas, [43] also a former Meteor locomotive. Frisco 4516 , 4-8-4 Northern-type coal-fired locomotive [ 52 ] on static display at Missouri State Fairgrounds , Sedalia, Missouri , also known as "Old Smokie."
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
The 285-ton locomotive — the last one purchased by the railroad before turning to diesel power — cost more than $198,000 in 1943. The locomotive had a fuel capacity of 24 tons of coal and was ...
Two other AT&SF doodlebugs, both converted to diesel-electric locomotion, survive: The M.160 is in the collection of the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas; the M.190 is on public display at Doodlebug Park in Belen, New Mexico, south of Albuquerque. [12] ATSF doodlebug M119, Isleta, New Mexico. 1943
Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: Donated to the museum in 2018. CO-19 West Side Lumber Company #12 (Shay locomotive) Shay Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: CO-20 West Side Lumber Company #14 (Shay locomotive) Shay Colorado Railroad Museum, Golden, CO: CO-21 Royal Gorge 40 2-8-0 1921 built Photographed at Colorado Railroad Museum in ...
In 1948, Frisco 4501 still in its Meteor livery pulled President Harry S. Truman's whistle stop tour train through his home state of Missouri. Their design was also similar to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 's O-5 class of Northerns, though there were some differences.
Engine No. 4501, also in the Meteor paint scheme, resides at the Museum of the American Railroad, in Frisco, Texas. [6] The streamlined, diesel equipped Meteor began westbound operations on May 14, 1948, with its first eastbound train departing Oklahoma City on May 15. At the end of its maiden trip the president of the Frisco, while giving an ...