This 40’ standard box car with plug door is car #21 of a 50-car series representing each of the 50 states in the union. It bears the Chickadee and White Pine Cone & Tassel, Maine’s official state bird and flower. The flag of the state of Maine is in the background. The road number 1820 represents the year the ‘Pine Tree State’ was admitted into the union.

This 40’ standard box car with single door and no roofwalk is painted green with large ‘worms in love’ logo and ‘Penn Central’ in white. Lettering is in white. It was built in March 1951 by Pressed Steel Car, serviced in August 1968, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. The Penn Central Transportation Company was an American railroad company that operated from 1968 until 1976. It was created by the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad was added to the merger at the insistence of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) on January 1, 1969. The headquarters of the merged railroad was in Philadelphia.

This 40’ standard box car with single door and no roofwalk is painted metallic gold with red, white and black logo and black lettering. It was built in November 1953, serviced in December 1966, and runs on Bettendorf trucks. In 1966, the CB&Q was awarded the Railway Progress Institute’s “Golden Freight Car Award” for promotion of railroad freight traffic. At the time, the Q’s Havelock, Nebraska shop was rebuilding class XM-32 boxcars; to commemorate the award, the railroad painted one day’s output (eight cars) in this scheme, including 61417.

This 60’ flat car is painted Glacier Green with white log and lettering. It was built in June 1965 by Thrall Car Manufacturing and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. The Great Northern’s route was the northernmost transcontinental railroad route in the United States. Formed in 1889, Great Northern was privately funded; it was one of the few transcontinental railroads to avoid receivership following the Panic of 1893. In 1970 the Great Northern, together with the Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, merged to form the Burlington Northern Railroad, today part of the BNSF Railway.

This 60’ flat car is painted Glacier Green with white log and lettering. It was built in June 1965 by Thrall Car Manufacturing and runs on Roller Bearing trucks. The Great Northern’s route was the northernmost transcontinental railroad route in the United States. Formed in 1889, Great Northern was privately funded; it was one of the few transcontinental railroads to avoid receivership following the Panic of 1893. In 1970 the Great Northern, together with the Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, merged to form the Burlington Northern Railroad, today part of the BNSF Railway.

These SD40-2 powered locomotives are painted gray and yellow with red stripes and large red, white and blue Union Pacific® shield logo. Lettering is red. Built in 1980 the Union Pacific® by EMD, these locos are part of build order 796297. The EMD SD40-2 is a 3,000 horsepower (2,240 kW) model of C-C diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division (now Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.) between January 1972 and February 1986; 3,957 examples were built, and every class 1 railroad in North America has operated this locomotive.

These SD40-2 powered locomotives are painted gray and yellow with red stripes and large red, white and blue Union Pacific® shield logo. Lettering is red. Built in 1980 the Union Pacific® by EMD, these locos are part of build order 796297. The EMD SD40-2 is a 3,000 horsepower (2,240 kW) model of C-C diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division (now Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.) between January 1972 and February 1986; 3,957 examples were built, and every class 1 railroad in North America has operated this locomotive.