Pennsylvania E6 Atlantic model train
date: label: date made
content: 1950
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One (1) electric model train
label: Description (Brief)
content: Wooden base with gilded bottom and a clear plastic removable cover. On top of the base sits a golden train with engine and coal car on a track with a small golden man looking on. "Pennsylvania E6-Atlantic" "1950"
label: Description (Brief)
content: Invented by George L. Miller
label: Description
content: This innovative 4½ inch model of the Pennsylvania Atlantic-type locomotive won its creator, George L. Miller of Hackensack, New Jersey, a prize at the 20th annual exhibition of the New York Society of Model Engineers in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1950. Pennsylvania Atlantic locomotives were manufactured in the early 1900s and generally used on rail lines in the Northeast. Miller built the model at a scale of 1/16 of inch per foot of the real locomotives and helped catalyze the popular N gauge of model trains by showing that it was possible to make tiny working engines. Popular in the mid-1900s, model-train making inspired everyday inventors, with exhibitions offering opportunities to showcase and celebrate their work.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Railroad
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0015.1
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0015.1
label: accession number
content: 2023.0015
objectType: label: Object Name
content: model, train
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 8 in x 2 in; 6.35 cm x 20.32 cm x 5.08 cm