Built in 1926 by the American Locomotive Company for the Southern Railway. It pulled the highest-level passenger trains. In 1942, this locomotive and #1403 came close to being at the end of their career when a stalled truck caused them to derail in Georgia. Fortunately, they both survived and were repaired. #1401 was the locomotive to pull the funeral train for Former President Franklin Roosevelt from Warm Springs, Georgia, to Hyde Park, New York in 1945. This locomotive retired in 1952. Years later, a veteran named W. Graham Claytor Jr convinced Harry A. DeButts, who was the president of the Southern Railway at the time, to donate #1401 to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Today, it is displayed in the Transportation Exhibition.