Great Plains Transportation Museum

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Coordinates: 37°41′11″N, 97°19′47″W

Santa Fe steam and diesel locomotives on display at the grounds of the Great Plains Transportation Museum.

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

[edit] 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

[edit] External links

• ATSF 4-8-4 3768 info at the Santa Fe Subjects site-By Evan Werkema
• Photos and history on FP45 #93-By Jim Fuhrman

[edit] References

• Great Plains Transportation Museum Website

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