Norfolk Southern gifting historic Marco Polo railcar to Southeastern Railway Museum
November 9, 2020 Southeastern Railway Museum
Exterior view of Marco Polo office car.
Norfolk Southern Corporation is gifting the historic Marco Polo rail car, a car President Franklin D. Roosevelt used while in office, to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia.
The Pullman Company built the Marco Polo in 1927 as part of a small fleet of cars named for world explorers, reserving them for VIPs who chartered their own railcar. Roosevelt traveled in the car when he was governor of New York and later as president, using it on trips to and from Warm Springs, Georgia.
The car is scheduled to arrive at the museum at 11 a.m. on Nov. 14, and a brief unveiling ceremony will follow.
The museum plans to display the car on its 35-acre campus alongside the Superb, a Pullman car used by President Warren G. Harding.
“The Marco Polo is a...