SUGARCREEK, Ohio — The Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum has added former Missouri Pacific business car No. 11, now known as Ohio Central No. 800003, Sugarcreek, to its collection, the museum has announced.
The car has been donated by the family of the late Jerry Joe Jacobson, founder of the Age of Steam Roundhouse and operator of the Ohio Central Railroad from its founding in 1988 until it was sold to Genesee & Wyoming in 2008. The Jacobson family used the car for travel on Amtrak for more than 20 years.
“Although we will no longer see the ‘Sugarcreek’ at the rear of Amtrak trains,” the museum said in a press release, “it is comforting to know that it will still be preserved and in use for the future.”
The car is currently en route from Pittsburgh Union Station to the museum via Norfolk Southern and the Ohio Central.
More on the museum is available at its website.
