B&O RR Museum

[cheese3]

Hi guys!

I had a wonderful day today! We went to the B&O RR Museum! It was the best! It is deffinatly worth seeing. I will post some pictures but not many because you have to see it in person to really appreciate it!


This is me during the train ride


picture of a Western Maryland BL2 taken through the window of a caboose


The American Freedom Train no.1 4-8-4. It is in pretty bad shape right now


A sad picture of the tender of the freedom train


An odd color for CSX

Well if you want to see more like inside the roundhouse and the newly built maintenance shop you will just have to go look your self. It was well worth the trip!

Happy Railroading!

[TrainFreak409]

I WANT TO GO!

I thought the Freedom Train was a T1 4-8-4, not a 4-6-4?

The orange CSX is a MoW Locomotive. We have a model of it a Purkeys.

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

[cheese3]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409

I WANT TO GO!

I thought the Freedom Train was a T1 4-8-4, not a 4-6-4?

The orange CSX is a MoW Locomotive. We have a model of it a Purkeys.

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

my bad. it is 4-8-4

[Darth Santa Fe]

I just went to the Monticello Railway museum in Illinois. It's a pretty small place but they did have a Wabash F unit pulling some passenger cars and a caboose.

[cheese3]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Darth Santa Fe

I just went to the Monticello Railway museum in Illinois. It's a pretty small place but they did have a Wabash F unit pulling some passenger cars and a caboose.

NICE![:D]

[howmus]

The B & O Museum is a must visit for me in the next year! I remember seeing the Freedom Train when she roared through Waverly NY on July 16, 1976. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! Whistle howling the whole time. WOW! It was supposed to stop there for a bit but was about two hours behind schedule and was making up time under a full head of steam.

[TrainFreak409]

My co-worker rode on the Freedom Train, when it was the Chessie Steam Special. He rode in the baggage car directly behind the tender, with his sound equipment recording the beautiful sound that is a steam locomotive.

Man, moving means I'll be farther away from the B & O Museum, THAT SUCKS!

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

[Darth Santa Fe]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cheese3

QUOTE: Originally posted by Darth Santa Fe

I just went to the Monticello Railway museum in Illinois. It's a pretty small place but they did have a Wabash F unit pulling some passenger cars and a caboose.

NICE![:D]

Yeah, it was nice. Very nice weather and I got to ride in the cupola of the caboose and go in the cab of what I think is a GP20 or modified GP9.

[Darth Santa Fe]

The Henry Ford museum is a place you should check out too. They have what I think is a 2-6-6-6 Allegheny!

[TBat55]

DON'T LOOK AT THESE IF YOU PLAN ON VISITING!

But if you can't visit:

B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, MD, 04-05-2005:

outside view of roundhouse (60' turntable inside it):


roundhouse door:


inside view of the new slate roof, originally designed by Mr. Baldwin:


an interesting maintenance thing to model:


2-6-6-2 C&O challenger


close-up view of same


ditto


ditto


2-8-4 berkshire


same, up close


same, up close


same's tender


old switcher


part of the collection ("Burro" and car)


lightweight passenger car for 18" radius curves


don't know what this is



Thanks, I highly recommend the visit. Made my day for $14.00 (includes short train ride by SW7).

Next month, May 2005, the new Car Restoration Shop opens & accessed via the train ride.

The collapsed roof damaged many engines and cars. One car repair estimate was $1Million. Some VERY STRANGE engines in there including a Camel with cab on TOP of the boiler (forgot about tunnel clearance?).

Special note: The Smithsonian display on loan has the best models I've ever seen in 40 years of MRR.


B&O Railroad Museaum, Baltimore, MD, models on loan from the Smithsonian:

















These are scrathbuilt models that look like they took a lifetime to make.

B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore, MD, 04-05-2005:

The HO layout on display, computer-controlled:






coal car dumper










computer control system:


garden RR outside:


models on load from the Smithsonian:

[cheese3]

Terry Nice pics but your "challenger" is a mallet. Challengers had a 4-6-6-4 wheel arrangement.

[Darth Santa Fe]

Is that 2-6-6-2 Mallet the same one that Bachmann Spectrum makes in HO and N?

[cheese3]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Darth Santa Fe

Is that 2-6-6-2 Mallet the same one that Bachmann Spectrum makes in HO and N?

They have them but not numbered the same

[Anonymous]

Just back from marathon 2 week vacation from Baltimore to DC via Chincoteague, Norfolk, Monticello and almost all points in between with Mrs and kidlets. First stop was B&O Museum same day as cheese3. cheese3 and TBat55 don't begin to tell you about this fantastic museum and it's great staff. Easily took about 100 pictures. Several replicate TBat55's April visit. It is a must see and was a great way to start a vacation.

[cheese3]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mstein

Just back from marathon 2 week vacation from Baltimore to DC via Chincoteague, Norfolk, Monticello and almost all points in between with Mrs and kidlets. First stop was B&O Museum same day as cheese3. cheese3 and TBat55 don't begin to tell you about this fantastic museum and it's great staff. Easily took about 100 pictures. Several replicate TBat55's April visit. It is a must see and was a great way to start a vacation.

Same day as me? wow did you see me? Look at my picturer in my post.

[Anonymous]

Might have. This trip was truely one of those 'If it's Tuesday this must be Belgium tour.
We arrived an hour before opening. Did the museum. Museum was look at everything, snap pictures of everything, pigeonhole and pepper staff with questions, chase kids, fix split knees, take pictures, take train trip, take pictures, fix split lip, take pictures. Snagged a lunch at 2. Went cross town to see Fort McHenry. Most of same drill at Ft. McHenry. Back to Inner Harbor to do USS Constellation and USS Tursk. Dragged into next hotel at 9:30. Got up next day did same kind of schedule different town, different things. Thought it was magic when got right plane, right day, right time to return home. Reviewing pictures now to see what we did.

[timthechef]

I'm going this week! I can't wait!

[TBat55]

FYI
In the bookstore there's an exellent book (8x11 soft) on rebuilding the roundhouse roof and why it collapsed. Very interesting design by Baldwin; one of the largest "round" structures in the world.