A steam-powered bottling system at the Dr Pepper Bottling Company building used a boiler manufactured by Erie City Iron Works in 1939 and installed in the first-floor boiler room, where it worked with pumps, an engine, refrigerating machinery, and an electric dynamo to power the bottling line and other machinery in the building. The boiler measured 60 inches in diameter and 14 feet long, bore serial number 84025, and was inspected on March 15, 1939, after manufacture, with details of its construction, tubing, valves, rivets, and braces filed by the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors. In the late 1980s, plans for the museum's opening led to the boiler's move outside, requiring removal of the wing's roof so a large crane could lift it out and place it outdoors. A hand-painted Dr Pepper sign was created in 1940 by C. B. Morgan on the back of a small concrete shed on the company's property, featuring the large Good for Life logo on a red tile background that was popular throughout the 1940s. Morgan repainted the sign in 1948 and again in 1990 shortly before the museum opened, and in 2007, when the shed was demolished to create the courtyard, the 20,000 pound section of poured-in-place concrete wall bearing the sign was lifted by a large crane to its current location.