Southeastern Railway Museum
Georgia's official transportation history museum sits on a sprawling Duluth rail yard, where among its ninety-plus pieces of rolling stock rests the Pullman private car "Superb," built in 1911 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The car carried President Warren G. Harding on his cross-country "Voyage of Understanding" in 1923, and after he collapsed and died in San Francisco that August, the Superb bore his flag-draped casket back east as millions lined the tracks. Visitors and ghost-lore chroniclers say Harding never quite disembarked: his restless figure is described pacing the length of the funeral car, while the nearby Washington Club car is tied to a dapper apparition in old-fashioned dress. Stories also drift to the Camp Creek train wreck, with sightings of a phantom train's lights and whistle trailing a rush of cold air across the grounds. Whether spirits or the simple weight of a president's last journey, the Superb keeps its quiet, attentive hush.
📍 3595 Buford Hwy, Duluth, GA 30096, Duluth, GA · Get directions