After Electro-Motive's "Aerotrain" concept failed to reinvigorate passenger rail travel, partly due to the train's poor design, the Rock Island acquired both trainsets for use in commuter service. Originally, #1 went to the Pennsylvania while #2 tested on the New York Central. Seen here is #2 arriving at Chicago's Englewood Union Station on April 21, 1965. Today, sections of both sets survive; #2 resides at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin while the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis has #1.
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above and below were taken at the 1964 Worlds Fair
one has been preserved and is at the at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri, and Car Nut commented to say that one is rusting away at the National Railway Museum in Greenbay WisconsinThese photos are from http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585&page=477
There's one of these sitting rotting away at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It, as with all of the other trains at the museum, is a victim of the museum's lack of funding.
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