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
Read more about this topic: Great Plains Transportation Museum
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