Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Business Car No. 101

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Abraham Lincoln, also known as Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Business Car No. 101, is the oldest operable passenger car in the United States allowed to run on tracks operated by Amtrak. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Abraham Lincoln (Pullman car), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 1988 · category: Object.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. Bruce and Lee Rds., Othello, 99344
When was it listed? June 1988
Category. object
Census division. Othello
National Register reference number. 88000740 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Business Car No. 101: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Klepharot Deposit	Diatomite	Past Producer
	Wenzelberger	Diatomite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Othello, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1998: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Othello	$10,000	trees down and power lines down along with widespread damage to nearby wheat fields.
April 1998	Hail	Othello	-	1 inch hail

Every storm recorded in Adams County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88000740 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams County	All 13 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.