Look! There just ahead!! It's a bird, it's a train - it's Aerotrain! Built by GM to "save the industry" in 1955, the train was lightweight and streamlined utilizing a set of modified GM Truck & Coach Division 40-seat intercity highway bus bodies. Ah, well, looked good on paper. These rough riders, two sets of which had been built, lasted only a decade in service though saw operation on the PRR, AT&SF, UP and in the end, on commuter service with the CRI&P. Only the engine and two cars of each set was preserved; one here at the Museum of Transportation and the other at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
A collection of engines, cabooses, cars, etc., great and small that are past their prime, but represent a spirit of railroading that will never pass away!!
