Object Details
Description (Brief)
One (1) electric model train
Wooden base with gilded bottom and a clear plastic removable cover. On top of the base sits a golden train with engine and coal car on a track with a small golden man looking on. "Pennsylvania E6-Atlantic" "1950"
Invented by George L. Miller
Description
This innovative 4½ inch model of the Pennsylvania Atlantic-type locomotive won its creator, George L. Miller of Hackensack, New Jersey, a prize at the 20th annual exhibition of the New York Society of Model Engineers in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1950. Pennsylvania Atlantic locomotives were manufactured in the early 1900s and generally used on rail lines in the Northeast. Miller built the model at a scale of 1/16 of inch per foot of the real locomotives and helped catalyze the popular N gauge of model trains by showing that it was possible to make tiny working engines. Popular in the mid-1900s, model-train making inspired everyday inventors, with exhibitions offering opportunities to showcase and celebrate their work.
Location
Currently not on view
date made
1950
ID Number
2023.0015.1
catalog number
2023.0015.1
accession number
2023.0015
Object Name
model, train
Measurements
overall: 2 1/2 in x 8 in x 2 in; 6.35 cm x 20.32 cm x 5.08 cm
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Work and Industry: Transportation, Railroad
Data Source
National Museum of American History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_2033661