{"nrhp_refnum":"98001560","name":"Superb, The","other_names":["Los Angeles","Pope Pius XI","Business Car 101","Business Car 301"],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"3595 S. Old Peachtree Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Duluth","county":"Gwinnett County","state":"GA","lat":33.988743862000035,"lon":-84.15557928699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-03-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Engineering","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1911 Pullman-built \"heavyweight\" private railroad car, the Superb, now housed in Building One of the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Gwinnett County, Georgia.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a rare early all-steel passenger car and an excellent example of a private-type heavyweight car (Criteria A and C). It is also tied to President Warren G. Harding (Criterion B), as the last car of his 1923 \"Voyage of Understanding\" train and the funeral car that carried his casket from San Francisco to Washington and then to Marion, Ohio.","narrative":"Built by Pullman in 1911, the Superb is a private railroad car of the type known as a heavyweight. It has a riveted carbon steel body, six-wheel trucks, a clerestory roof, and a concrete floor over wire mesh. Inside are an observation lounge, five private rooms, a porter's compartment, and a kitchen and pantry, with the floor plan largely intact. The car was listed for its role in transportation and engineering history as a rare early all-steel passenger car, at a time when most passenger cars were still wooden. It is also tied to politics. In 1923 it was the last car of President Warren G. Harding's ten-car special on his transcontinental speaking tour. After Harding died in San Francisco, it carried his casket to Washington, D.C., and then to Marion, Ohio, for burial. Later used as a business car, it was donated to the Southeastern Railway Museum in 1969, and it now sits indoors at the museum in Duluth.","period_of_significance":"1911 to 1923","architect_builder":"Pullman Company/builder","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Housed on tracks in a large protective building at the Southeastern Railway Museum; the car itself is unchanged by the museum's move.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.703792-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/98001560.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001560/cf2cb9d929-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001560/cf2cb9d929-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Elton Saulsberry","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ES-20150502-DPA-0177.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Elton Saulsberry</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ES-20150502-DPA-0177.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208518","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superb","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7767471"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/gwinnett-county/superb-the-98001560/"}