platform. The famous photograph of Truman holding the incorrect "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline was taken while the president was standing on the platform of the railcar. President Dwight D. Eisenhower made little use of the Ferdinand Magellan. He travelled a few times in it to his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to visit his brother, Milton S. Eisenhower who was President of The Pennsylvania State University, in University Park, Pennsylvania, and once to Ottawa where he addressed the Parliament of Canada. The car was last used officially in 1954, when Mamie Eisenhower rode it to Groton, Connecticut, to christen the first nuclear powered submarine . The railcar was declared surplus and offered to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958, but the Smithsonian did not act on the offer, and the Gold Coast Railroad Museum was able to acquire it. In 1984 the Ferdinand Magellan was briefly loaned to the presidential re-election campaign of President Ronald Reagan, who gave a series of "whistlestop" speeches from the rear platform during a one-day trip in Ohio on October 12, 1984. President Reagan's five-stop train journey required transporting the train from Florida to Ohio, re-assembling it, and putting it back into commission. Over 100,000 people came to see the President, who at each stop cited the memory of Truman and said, "Mr. Truman could also make very plain the differences between himself and his opponent, and, my friends, that's just what we're going to do today." "It was super," remarked campaign director Ed Rollins. 'The President loved it.' Reagan's journey is the last time the car was used. See also Georgia 300 Harding Railroad Car Harry S. Truman 1948 presidential campaign References Withers, Bob. The President Travels by Train Original Pullman-Standard records (specifically Lot Specifications for Lots 6037 & 6246) located at Pullman Library, Union, IL External links Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs Dade County listings US Car #1 – Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan – U.S. Car No. 1 at National Historic Landmarks Program The Gold Coast Railroad Museum: Presidential Rail Car, U.S. Number 1 Ferdinand Magellan – retrieved July 10, 2006 Pullman Robert Peary, a sister car of Plan 3972, Lot 6037 (July 1927), operational at the San Diego Railroad Museum – retrieved January 2, 2007 Pullman Roald Amundsen, a sister car of Plan 3972-B, Lot 6246 (Aug. 1929), captive at the Scottsdale Railroad Park – retrieved January 2, 2007 David Brinkley on