Presidential Car

Gerald W. Kopiasz · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2002 5:18 pm

Greetings,

What ever happened to the Presidenial car Megellan (spelling?)?

Thanks,
Gerald W. Kopiasz

hrrhs@aol.com

Kevin McCabe · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2002 5:50 pm

> Greetings,

> What ever happened to the Presidenial car
> Megellan (spelling?)?

> Thanks,
> Gerald W. Kopiasz

It's at the Gold Coast Railway Museum in Miami.

kevinmccabe@avenew.com

Keith Albrandt · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2002 5:54 pm

> It's at the Gold Coast Railway Museum in
> Miami.

See the link below to their Web page for the "Ferdinand Magellan".

Ferdinand Magellan
kalbrandt@rypn.org

dave · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2002 6:56 pm

It is the place to ride out a hurricane of you are stuck in Miami during storm season.

Gold Coast RR Museum has done a great job of cosmetically restoring FEC 153 and their new train shed is beautiful.

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

Jim Lundquist · **Posted:** Mon Oct 21, 2002 6:36 pm

The back-up Presidental car, the Robert Peary, is also alive and well. This car was used by FDR and came into San Diego in 1935. The other car was undergoing repairs.

The Robert Peary is in regular use as a charter car on the San Diego & Arizona Railway, operated by the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in Campo, California.

Robert Peary

JimLundquist55@yahoo.com

Stephen Syfrett · **Posted:** Tue Oct 22, 2002 12:33 pm

Does anyone have any information on the disposition of the other 4 "Explorer" series Pullman cars? These were the David Livingstone, Henry Stanley, Marco Polo, and Roald Amundsen.

> The back-up Presidental car, the Robert
> Peary, is also alive and well. This car was
> used by FDR and came into San Diego in 1935.
> The other car was undergoing repairs.

> The Robert Peary is in regular use as a
> charter car on the San Diego & Arizona
> Railway, operated by the Pacific Southwest
> Railway Museum in Campo, California.

syfrettinc@bellsouth.net

dave · **Posted:** Tue Oct 22, 2002 2:22 pm

Last I heard Polo was a static meeting / office space for NS Corp.

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

Stephen Syfrett · **Posted:** Tue Oct 22, 2002 2:46 pm

I was wondering if that was the same car or not. Is it in D.C. with CofG Savannah? Any other confirmations on the "Explorer" series?

> Last I heard Polo was a static meeting /
> office space for NS Corp.

> Dave

syfrettinc@bellsouth.net

Alan Walker · **Posted:** Wed Oct 23, 2002 1:21 am

The Roald Amundsen was privately owned for many years and is now owned by the City of Phoenix, Arizona. It is located off live track at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park and is staffed by volunteer attendants when it is open for public viewing during normal park hours.

awalker2002@comcast.net

dave · **Posted:** Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:54 am

I believe the Captain Spaulding is Marty Knox's private car at Huckleberry RR.

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

Kevin Gillespie · **Posted:** Thu Oct 24, 2002 7:47 am

Marco Polo was sold to the C of G and became the "Savannah." It was conveyed to Southern in the merger and ultimately moved by NS to Washington Union Station where it is used for corporate entertaining.

My wife and I had the pleasure of having dinner on the Savannah as it was then known in the late 1980's. NS was well aware of its historic connections to FDR, and a few months later they restored it to its original appearance as the Marco Polo.

kevin.r.gillespie@verizon.net

Stephen Syfrett · **Posted:** Thu Oct 24, 2002 9:12 pm

This seems rather amazing to me, that of a six-car group of Pullmans, at least four still remain in either active or preserved condition! Seems the Stanley and Livingstone duo may be gone. If so that would be very odd. "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" said Stanley when they met in Africa. The only cars with such a close relationship of the persons they were named after are the missing ones.

syfrettinc@bellsouth.net

Presidential Car

Who is online