Snowdrifts stranded the vehicle in the Sierra Nevada in January 1952, imprisoning 226 people traveling from Chicago to ...

Streamliner trains were able to achieve greater speed ... New York Central engineers aboard the train asserted that neither electric nor Diesel-electric locomotives could surpass the rating ...

Simultaneously,Charles Kettering of General Motors was experimenting with perfecting the diesel locomotive ... a shining symbol of the streamliner era. The train was presented to the Museum ...