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Mr. Gilbert's Railroad
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The Eli Whitney Museum delves into New Haven's past to bring back a special tradition dating back more than 60 years: The AC Gilbert American Flyer Train collection. At 3/16” scale, a six-foot-tall person rises a mere inch and one-eighth above the ground. Can you imagine yourself in this miniaturized world?
To help bring visitors into this world, Eli Whitney has reinvented an American Flyer 302 Steam Locomotive. The S-gauge engine has been retrofitted with a lightweight camera typically found on flying drones. This small camera gives visitpors a first-person view from the train engineer’s seat.
At one time more than 3,000 people worked at Gilbert's factory in Fair Haven, and his products shaped imagination for three generations of American children.