Train Museums that you've been to

[Trainguy557]

The train museum that Im displaying here is the Steamtown Museum in Pennsly that I visited a while back. Most of the trains there are in shape, but some are okay. The eerie part of the museum is that the middle of it feels like a junkyard. :'( Quite depressing really.
:mop:

Well anyway, here are some screenies

Unsure of the name (Could tell me )

Might have to enlighten me on this one aswell

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd244/downface_bucket/Trip021.jpg






Snow Plow (Big Boy in the far left)

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd244/downface_bucket/Trip017.jpg




Front Yard

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd244/downface_bucket/Trip009.jpg



Last But Not least....


http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd244/downface_bucket/Trip012.jpg


Hope you guys got some nice pictures aswell.

 

[AJ_Fox]

Hello Trainguy557

Please reduce the size of your images so that they do not exceed 800 by 600 pixels. For your reference Auran Trainz Code of Conduct #18 states:

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Cheers

AJ

 

[ish6]

Cool -- thanks!!

Ish:wave:

 

[Trainguy557]

Cool -- thanks!!

Ish:wave:

Thanks. Its a shame however how the trains there are slowly starting to rust.

AJ I've earned you a "1337" post count

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[transitguard]

I would assume this is in Scranton? Has anyone ever made a trainz version of this facility?

 

[Trainguy557]

I would assume this is in Scranton? Has anyone ever made a trainz version of this facility?

Yes, this museum is in Scranton. If somebody made a Trainz version of this i'd BEEP my shorts.

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[SR6900]

Hmm... How many've I been to?

I've been to a lot. A few that don't exist anymore. I believe my count is at 80 or so in around 30 states. Pretty good for a 15 year old.

1. Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
2. Southeastern Railroad Museum
3. Tennessee Central
4. New River Scenic Railway
5. Southern Appalachia Railway Museum
6. North Carolina Transportation Museum
7. Heart of Dixie Railroad (C&S)
8. Casey Jones Museum
9. Kentucky Railway Museum
10. Bluegrass Railway
11. Hardin Southern
12. Great Smoky Mountains Railroad
13. Tweetsie Railroad
14. Dollywood (They got a pretty good railroad)
15. Virginia Museum of Transportation
16. Seminole Gulf Railroad
17. Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum
18. Henry M. Flagler Museum
19. Mount Dora Scenic Railroad
20. Three Rivers Rambler (K&HR)
21. Arkansas and Missouri
22. Cass Scenic Railroad (been at least 11 times)
23. Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad (all 3 different trains)(been at least 9 times)
24. Potomac Eagle
25. West Virginia Central
26. Strasburg Railroad
27. Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
28. East Broad Top Railroad
29. Chattanooga Choo Choo
30. Lookout Mountain Incline Railway
31. Rockhill Trolley Museum
32. Knox & Kane (been before bridge fell, after bridge closed, and after bridge fell)
33. Altoona Railroader's Museum
34. Horseshoe Curve
35. Steamtown NHS
36. Wilmington & Western
37. Cape May Seashore Lines
38. Oil Creek & Titusville
39. Kutztown Railroad
40. Middletown & Hummelstown
41. Wanamaker, Kempton & Southern
42. Pioneer Tunnel
43. Gettysburg Railroad
44. Black River & Western
45. New Hope & Ivyland
46. Western Maryland Scenic Railroad
47. Trolleyville USA
48. Cuyahoga Scenic Railroad
49. Lake Superior Railroad Museum
50. North Shore Scenic Railroad
51. Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad
52. Riverside & Great Northern
53. Illinois Railway Museum
54. National Railroad Museum
55. Lumberjack Steam Train / Camp 5 Museum
56. Indiana Transportion Musem
57. Indiana Railroad Museum
58. East Troy Electric Railroad
59. Knightstown, Carthage & Shirley (or something like that, in Indiana)
60. Mt. Washington Cog Railroad
61. White Mountain Central / Clark's Trading Post
62. Hobo Railroad
63. Naugatuck Railroad
64. Winnepesaukee Scenic Railroad
65. Conway Scenic Railroad
66. Green Mountain Railroad (2 different trips)
67. Maine Narrow Gauge Museum
68. Wiscasset, Waterville, & Farmington Railroad
69. Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad
70. Boothbay Railway Village
71. Seashore Trolley Museum
72. Shoreline Trolley Museum
73. Valley Railroad
74. Rochelle Diamond Train Park
75. Arkansas & Missouri
76. Whitewater Valley Railroad
and more

I'll update the list every time I get on. So many to remember.:'( It would help if I could find a good list or map with railroad museums & tourist Railroads.

 

[Tokkyu40]

I've been to the Orange Empire Railroad Museum in Parris, California.
http://www.oerm.org/
I think it started as a trolley museum and grew from there.
They have trolley rides and a train that runs all the way to Parris. (I think it runs about a half mile from the museum grounds.)

I've also been to the Campo Railroad Museum, the San Diego Railroad Museum and the Pacific Southwest Railroad Museum. The last one seems to be the current name. I hope they keep it.
http://www.sdrm.org/
They have an excellent collection of mainline equipment in the main yard at Campo, California, including a military MRS-1 road switcher from each, EMD and Alco, and domestic road switchers like the Baldwin AS-616 and a Fairbanks Morse. They even had a presidential campaign car.
They'll be running down into Mexico and all the way over to East Tijuana at the end of February.

Claude

 

[picture]

Well I've been to a few railroad museums.
1) California State Railroad Museum (I've been a member there since 1994 and I'm 15 years old:hehe
2) Western Railway Museum
3) Nevada State Railroad Museum
4) Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum in Japan
5) There was another in Japan (I don't remember the name though. There was a D51 on display out front. And there were excursions pulled by a diesel)

Matt

 

[Ferrous]

http://www.hodrrm.org is where I most frequently fritter away my Saturdays--I'm a car host there.

Also been to (off the top of my head):
North Alabama RR Museum
Tennessee Valley RR Museum
Southeastern RR Museum
North Carolina Museum of Transportation
National Museum of Transportation (St. Louis, MO)
Granite City Passenger Terminal (sort of a railroad museum/private railcar excursion staging area across the river from St. Louis, still under construction)
Whitefish, MT Depot
Etowah, TN Depot
Paducah RR Museum
Cass Scenic
The museum in Century, AL/FL (right on the border they have a steam loco they're restoring--not sure of the name)
Bessemer, AL depot
Lake Superior Railroad Museum (Cozmo's stomping grounds )
Steamtown
And (this summer) Steam Railroading Institute (Owosso, MI--home of 1225)
Plus multitude other static displays/old depots that I can't remember at the moment.

I spend most of my travel time on the rails instead of at museums.

EDIT: There was also Vasúttörténeti park in Budapest.

 

[PerRock]

train museums I've vistited.....

Illinois Rwy
Greenfield Village/Henry Ford (they have a RR section in both)
the Maine Narrow Gauge RR Co.

ermm plenty more which I can't think of.

peter

 

[ish6]

I would assume this is in Scranton? Has anyone ever made a trainz version of this facility?

Hello,

Do you have pictures, etc?
If you like, PM, we can talk about it further!!:hehe:

Ish

 

[Alyx]

National Railway Museum: Port Adelaide, South Australia
http://www.natrailmuseum.org.au/common/nrm_a03_index.html

Sulphide Street Station Museum: Broken Hill, New South Wales

Milang Railway Museum: Milang, South Australia

Steamtown: Peterborough, South Australia

St. Kilda Tramway Museum: St. Kilda, South Australia
http://www.trammuseumadelaide.com.au

 

[transitguard]

Hello,

Do you have pictures, etc?
If you like, PM, we can talk about it further!!:hehe:

Ish

I wasn't planning on building it (my route-building skills are dismal at best). I was just curious.

 

[ish6]

I wasn't planning on building it (my route-building skills are dismal at best). I was just curious.

Actually, I am going to built one -- these guys on this thread has posted up some great links, and I got a couple of ideas I might play with in the future ...

BTW Outstanding thread!!

thanks
Ish

 

[springtransit]

Well, the good things about Steamtown are that those pieces won't be going anywhere for a while. And since it is a museum, they will restore them, eventually.

Here are museums I visited:

WM Scenic RR
B&O RR museum
Strasburg RR & RR Museum of PA
Gaithersburg RR Museum
Smithsonian
PA Trolley Museum
Savannah Historic RR shops
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Kennesaw Civil War Museum
Southeastern Rwy Museum
Blue Ridge Scenic RR
Stone Mountain RR
Horseshoe Curve

 

[jeffmorris]

Transit Museum in Brooklyn, NY, located in a subway station that was "abandoned".

 

[diesel9]

I've been to the one and only North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer,NC. The Museum is right at the Linwood Yard near Salisbury,NC. I tend to go to it's annual Rail Days event, in which the train rides are free, including both diesel and steam. It also has model railroad displays in N and HO Scale and Chili Cook offs. I recommend this place to anyone espicially on the Rail Days, which I rode the trains at least 15 times and seen over 30 trains.

 

[smash]

I have only been to one so far. The Baltimore & Ohio museum in Baltimore MD.
http://www.borail.org/
This was about 25 -30 years ago, When I was a kid. I dont remember too much about it. I do remember the turntable.
Kenny
edit
Unsure of the name (Could tell me

)
A quick qoogle gave me this.
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/steamtown/shs2k.htm

Might have to enlighten me on this one aswell
Wiki says that is a CPR 2317
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamtown_National_Historic_Site

 

[bdaneal]

Proper rail museums:
Southeastern Railway Museum - Duluth, GA (I bend wrenches here)
B&O Railroad Museum - Baltimore, MD
North Carolina Transportation Museum - Spencer, NC
National Museum of Transport - Kirkwood, MO
Colorado Railroad Museum - Golden, CO
Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum - Chattanooga, TN
Gold Spike National Historic Site - Promontory, UT
Ridgway Railroad Museum - Ridgway, CO
Galloping Goose Museum (?) - Dolores, CO

Museums that have some rail stuff:
Smithsonian National Museum of American History - Washington, DC
Agrirama - Tifton, GA
South Park City - Fairplay, CO'
Southern Forest World - Waycross, GA

Tourist railroads:
Cumbres & Toltec - Chama, NM
Durango & Silverton - Durango, CO
Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad - Elbe, WA
Cass Scenic - Cass, WV
Great Smokey Mountain Railroad - ?, NC
Rio Grande Scenic Railroad - Alamosa, CO
Leadville, Colorado, & Southern - Leadville, CO
East Broad Top - Orbisonia, PA
Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad - Stone Mountain, GA
Heber Valley Railroad - Heber City, UT
Georgetown Loop (poked around, did not ride) - Silver Plume, CO
Conway Scenic Railroad (poked around, did not ride) - North Conway, NH
Battle Ground, Yacolt, & Chelatchie Prarie Railroad - Yacolt, WA
Dodge City, Ford, & Bucklin (what's left of it) - Dodge City, KS

Historical rail sites:
Alpine Tunnel (West Portal, IIRC)
Most of the C&S/DSP&P through the South Park
Most of the C&S Clear Creek branch
Most of the RGS
Part of the DSP&P Ohio Creek branch
A lot of D&RGW narrow gauge grades (including Cerro Summit, Montrose, Gunnison, Lake City, Pagosa Springs, and more)
Biked on the CM Grade around Buena Vista


I'll update if I remember others.

Cheers,
Ben