19 Jan 26:
Well they came by boat from France, the MAGELLAN, does that count...
The French Gratitude Train (French: Train de la Reconnaissance française), commonly referred to as the Merci Train, were 49 World War I era "forty and eight" boxcars gifted to the United States by France in response to the 1947 U.S. Friendship Train. It arrived in Weehawken, New Jersey on February 2, 1949. Cars were distributed to each State and Virginia's car is now in the War Museum in Newport News, Virginia. We go by and peek at it every now and then and poke our head inside, it is one of the few cars that you can actually step into.
Our local library has 2 paintings from the car, which will be displayed for a short period before heading over the James River Bridge to be reunited with their car. The car was in Richmond for a period of time after its 1949 arrival and was at Ft Eustis Transportation Museum for a bit, but was deteriorating from being stored outside. Now it has a nice space inside.
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