The Great Plains Transportation Museum

    If you have been in Wichita long enough, you must had seen a Santa Fe locomotive sitting at the overpass on Douglas in downtown. It is a museum and I finally get to see the place. I visited here in 2003/06/14, and here is my notes.

Cost $4.00 for adult, $3.00 for child

Location: 700 E. Douglas Wichita, KS 67202-3506

Phone: 316-263-0944

Museum Hours: Saturdays (also some Sundays during the summer)

There is a gift shop, some indoor exhibitions, and a pop vending machine is available. You can either come from the front door on Douglas, or you can come from the Waterman.

• Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, Co. Locomotive 3768 (Baldwin Locomotive Works)

A view from the cockpit

You can see how big it is

Lots of nuts at the boiler

• Santa Fe Locomotive 93 (Electromotive Division FP45)

Diesel Locomotive

Its cockpit

• KG&E Electric Locomotive

It looks crappy...

The foundation is made out of cement to keep this train heavy (otherwise it will slip when pushing other cars...)

• Burlington Northern Locomotive 421 (EMD NW2)

Cockpit

• Track Speeders (2) and a Crane Car (Fairmont Railway Motors)

the crane is 3,000lb max.

• Whitcomb Industrial Switcher

It's chain driven... This one has a gasoline engine in front of the cockpit, then I think they generates electricity to drive a motor which transfer the energy to the wheel by chain. (or not?)

powered by gasoline

• Plymouth Industrial Switcher

also gasoline powered, from KG&E. I did not know that Plymouth made trains.

• CB&Q (Chicago, Burlington and Quincy)  (Caboose)

Used in Burlington Route

• Missouri Pacific caboose

• Others

View to the west from the overpass

to the east

I think this must have been Wichita Train Station long time before. They have a high windows and the top is  rounded,  looks exactly like old train station I see on movies.

this place used to be a platform, I think

The active railroads

here is the proof

Overview of the museum, it does not look really good but it is a good place to go someday.

All the materials referred to was the brochure given by the museum. I do respect all the rights of the museum. This page is to introduce the museum only, not for commercial use.

Last updated on 2003/06/15

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