Question about GM Train of Tomorrow

Seems like the GM Heritage Center covers only automobiles and the like.

Rusty

I guess this would be a project for Scott Mann, if he doesn't already have enough to do. But your point is well taken as this train is an important part of their history.

Mine arrived today and will be shortly be ready to go into service. I never thought this would be made, so Scott deserves a great deal of credit within the O-Gauge community. Probably the most innovative passenger train in O-Gauge for many years.

Keith, hang in there, yours will arrive shortly.

According to one source, the T of T started as a scale model in 1944.  It was only after the war that the decision was made to make an actual train:

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com...s-to-sham-1545129583

Don't know anything about a GM museum or the disposition of the 1944 scale model.

It's the kind of thing that I could see if not in a public museum, in a private one they have at their HQ that they bring distinguished visitors through.  Every big company has one.  And this piece would be a surprise for visitors who never know GM did anything but automobiles.  It would be one of those show-off pieces that would be perfect in this kind of a museum.  Set it in a nice case with a bound copy of the flyer for it next to it.

As for historian, anytime I watch a TV show on CNBC about a company like Budweiser, Coca-Cola, etc, they always interview the company historian.  So I assume GM has something similar.   And if they do, you know they would go crazy for something like this.  I compare this train to how GM contributed to past wars.  It's unique and tells a broader story of the company that few people know about.  Sparks more interest and respect for the company that they took risks, did things beyond their original bread and butter, for the betterment of the country.  I know it does for me.