The E7 was a 2,000-horsepower, passenger train locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois; built from February 1945 to April 1949. The 2,000 hp came from two 12 cylinder engines. Each engine drove its own electrical generator to power the two traction motors on each truck. Nicknamed Òbulldog noseÓ units. Some earlier units were called Òshovel noseÓ units or Òslant noseÓ units.-The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is a railroad museum in Strasburg, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The museum's collection has more than 100 historic locomotives and railroad cars that chronicle American railroad history. Visitors can climb aboard various locomotives and cars, inspect a 62-ton locomotive from underneath, view restoration activities via closed-circuit television, enjoy interactive educational programs, and more. In addition to full-size rolling stock pieces, the museum offers a number of other exhibts, which include several model railroad layouts, a hands on educational center, a library and archives.-Wikipedia
Washington Union Station is a major train station, transportation hub, and leisure destination in Washington, D.C. Opened in 1907, it is Amtrak's headquarters and the railroad's second-busiest station with annual ridership of just under 5 million riders. The station is the southern terminus of the Northeast Corridor, an electrified rail line extending north through major cities including Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston and the busiest passenger rail line in the nation. An intermodal facility, Union Station also serves commuter rail services, the Washington Metro, intercity bus lines, and local Metrobus buses. In 1988, a headhouse wing was added and the original station renovated for use as a shopping mall. Today, Union Station is one of the busiest rail facilities and shopping destinations in the United States, and is visited by over 40 million people a year.—Wikipedia
Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, 1995, fifty-one channel video installation (including one closed-circuit television feed), custom electronics, neon lighting, steel and wood; color, sound—The National Portrait Gallery is a historic art museum located in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1962 and opened to the public in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous Americans. The museum is housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building, as is the Smithsonian American Art Museum. With the visual arts, performing arts and new media, the Portrait Gallery introduces you to the people who have shaped the country—poets, presidents, actors, activists, visionaries, villains...and everyone in between. Its collection weaves together story and biography from precolonial times to the present to tell the American story.—Wikipedia & The Smithsonian Institution
