Great Plains Transportation Museum

Great Plains Transportation Museum

Infobox Museum
name =Great Plains Transportation Museum


established =
location =700 E. Douglas Wichita KS 67202
type =railroad museum
visitors =
director =
curator =
website =http://www.gptm.us

The Great Plains Transportation Museum is a railroad museum in Wichita, Kansas.

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.
*Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway EMD FP45 diesel locomotive #93.

*Burlington Northern Railroad EMD NW2 diesel locomotive #421 (Ex-St. Louis - San Francisco Railway #261)

*Various other diesel locomotives

*An electric locomotive

*A drover's car

*A tank car

* Maintenance of way equipment

* A Postal storage car

* A heavyweight baggage car

* Various types of cabooses

External links

* [http://atsf.railfan.net/atsfpres/atsf3768.html ATSF 4-8-4 3768 info at the Santa Fe Subjects site] -By Evan Werkema
* [http://members.aol.com/JFuhrtrain/SF93.htm Photos and history on FP45 #93] -By Jim Fuhrman

References

* [http://www.gptm.us Great Plains Transportation Museum Website]


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