The Superb

Superb
Manufacturer	Pullman Company
Order no.	Lot 3847
Constructed	March 1911
Diagram	Plan 2503
Specifications
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Notes/references
Superb
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Duluth, Georgia
Coordinates	33°59′19″N 84°9′20″W
Built	1911
Architect	Pullman Co.
NRHP reference No.	98001560
Added to NRHP	March 9, 1999[1]

The Superb was used as U.S. President Warren G. Harding's personal Pullman railroad car in a cross-country tour in 1923. After Harding's death, the car returned his body from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. Built in 1911, it is the second-oldest steel private car in existence. It had been used by Woodrow Wilson. In 1926 it was temporarily renamed Pope Pius XI for the Cardinal's Train from New York City to Chicago. Later it was an office car for the Charleston and West Carolina, Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Coast Line railroads.^[2]

The car was donated to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia in 1969 and opened to the public in 1995 after a 20-month restoration.^[3] It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 9, 1998.^[1]

See also

• Harding Railroad Car

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "SRM Exhibits: Passenger & Private Cars". Retrieved July 2, 2016.
3. Pullman Private Car Used by President Warren G. Harding Listed on National Register of Historic Places

External links

• Southeastern Railway Museum