Here are a few shots from our trip to the museum today: I have lots more to add. I took 80 pictures and all but a few turned out good. Keep an eye on this folder for more later: Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati - RailImages.com
The little engineer looks pretty serious about his job. I went to their website but there are no pictures. I might make a roadtrip if it was worth seeing.
Skipgear - TonyH., Good to see your little one out learning the lessons of operating a locomotive. Memory builders for sure. I lived in Dayton, Ohio for a short period of time. I don't remember this museum in Cincinnati. Can you provide us with a map or location? I regret I missed it. I used to sit down by the Spaghetti Factory and watch the trains moving across the river bridge. An amazing sight to see. And, the spaghetti (anyway you like it) was the best. Another visit that was a must was going to the Department of Power/ Electric company to see the O gauge layout. Do they still set that up around Christmas?
There are 50+ pieces of equipment in various states of repair and disrepair. Loco's on site include a PRR SW-1, a GE 65 Tonner, a PRR E8, a VO-1000, a few smaller switchers, and another SW or NW that I couldn't get to to identify. No steam unfortunately. Lots of passenger equipment including many New Haven and PRR cars, some Pullman, C&O, B&O, L&N, FEC, NYC, AMT (ex SP Sunset cars)..... I took shots of most of the cabooses, B&O: I-1, I-12, I-17, C&O Wide Vision, L&N and SCL Transfer cabs. Also plentiful are converted troop sleepers and C&O Automobile boxcars with end doors. They also have a Pfaudler Milk car. Web address is: http://www.cincirailmuseum.org They are a completely non profit, donation based organization so progress may be slow on things but there were at least a half dozzen people there Saturday working on cars. We were taken on a little tour of their workshop (3 converted passenger cars) and the car they were working on a Budd 10 roomet 5 double bedroom car that we got to walk through. Unfortunately the work entailed repairing broken windows from vandalism. I'll post some more later tonight. Rick, CG&E (now Duke Energy) still has the layout up Thanksgiving to Christmas season. It seems in the last few years there has been a big boost in the amount of work and improvements done to the layout. When I talked to them last year, they were working on scratchbuilding a complete Capitol Limited train set and they were almost done with a working intermodal yard. The head of one of the large Intermodal corporations stopped by a couple of years ago and loved the layout. A large set of well cars were donated later that year. That gave them incentive to build the intermodal yard on a transistion era layout.
Tony, I was invited to become a part of the operating crew. My work schedule conflicted and I had to back off. Now that hurt. Thanks for the info and I will follow-up on it. Seems to me I remember talk about this museum. Mainly that everything was in disrepair and they were hoping to restore some of the passenger cars. Dinner trains was mentioned as well....I think. Of course that could of been the train out at Lebanon.
What sort of facilities do they have for maintaining their collection? Any building to house equipment, as it's being repaired? Boxcab E50
They have nothing for a service facility. That is one of the things they are saving up for. Their workshops are currently 3 converted passenger cars, one is the work shop, one is the metal shop and one is the wood working shop. The facility is basically a fenced in abandoned yard. I would love to see things improve there. There are quite a few unique cars in the collection. The I-1 is just painful to look at. I would love to see that caboose back in shape. They are loosing members as they age and don't have enough man hours available to do all they want.
So the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati is actually in the Bluegrass State. It's across the big water in Covington, Kentucky.
