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At the very end of the exhibition hall at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, is the Railroads exhibit. The exhibit, located at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, includes historic trains and street cars.
Allegheny Steam Locomotive
The most impressive train in the collection is the Allegheny Steam Locomotive built in 1941. It was designed for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and was the most powerful steam locomotive ever built. It could pull 160 coal cars each with a 60 ton load. The locomotive is 125 feet long and weighs 1.2 million pounds. Visitors are able to climb up inside the locomotive and feel like an engineer for a few moments.
Sam Hill
The “Sam Hill” Steam Locomotive, dating back to 1858, is next to the Allegheny. It pulls a replica Bangor & Aroostook Railroad passenger car, which ran between 1855 to 1865. The replica was built from 1925 to 1928.
Snowplow
Behind that is a Canadian Pacific snowplow built in 1923. It was one of 36 built between 1920 and 1929. One or two locomotives had to push the plow to clear snow from the tracks.
Model Train
Besides some other cars and locomotives, there’s a decent model train layout as well as a Lego model of Detroit.
