Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Saturday, October 26, 1946. U.S. Car No. 1.

The Association of American Railroads sold the Ferdinand Magellan, a pullman car that had been specially built for Presidential use, and which had in fact been in use since 1943, to the Government for ten dollars.

The armored car, U.S. Car No. 1, is the heaviest passenger railroad car every used in the United States.

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