YOU ARE ENTERING THE
RAILROAD GALLERY
AT THE
MUSEUM OF YESTERDAY
www.museumofyesterday.org

The railroad gallery contains many articles from our own Railroad Equipment Collection, as well as photos from a number of railroad facilities that exist in Virginia near our home.
Cross buck at Doswell Railroad Crossing, Doswell, VA.. (Animation by John DeMajo)

 

 
This page is dedicated to the history of Railroads. Since the very beginning of the Industrial Age, Rail transportation of passengers and freight, has been a critical component to the development of America. Many great cities exist today because they were points along the various rail lines that criss-crossed the map. This page is our tribute to Railroads and their innovators.
 

THE MUSEUM OF YESTERDAY
RAILROAD EQUIPMENT COLLECTION

Click photos to see full-size view

Original oil painting of Souhern #4501 stean engine
Miscellaneous insulators used in railroad telegraph
Stock certificate from the New York Central Railroad
Level used in the construction of the Illinois Central Railroad
Switch position lantern
Whistle from a Louisiana sugar cane steam locomotive
Flyball governor from an engine
Track signal lamp
Railroad search light
Obstruction warning lantern
Lantern from NYC Railroad
Lantern from B&O railroad
Dietz lantern
Car clearance lantern
Journal bearing oil can
Railroad conductor's cap
WE ARE STILL PHOTOGRAPHING THE COLLECTION. MORE PHOTOS WILL APPEAR SHORTLY.
 
Railroad Scissors Phone
Station Telegraph Sounder
   
 
Several examples of authentic railroad dining car china are contained in the Museum Of Yesterday Railroad Collection

 


ITEMS FROM THE MUSEUM OF YESTERDAY'S
MODEL RAILROAD EQUIPMENT COLLECTION
Items are representative of the 1946-1955 era of Lionel Train Products

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Lionel Switchman 1949
Lionel
Crossing gate
Marx Block Control
Lionel Block Signal
Lionel track repair crew car
Lionel Street Light
Lionel Banjo Signal
Lionel #64 Lamp Post
New York Central loco from 1947
Lionel barrel loader
Two O Gauge engines from the post WW-II Era
Lionel Water Tower
       
MORE PHOTOS TO FOLLOW. WE ARE STILL PHOTOGRAPHING THE COLLECTION.
 
Lionel O Gauge Signal Bridge
Lionel Victorian
Street Light
    

 
 

THE VERY BEGINNINGS OF
STEAM RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION
1976 visit the Southern "Tom Thumb" locomotive to Slidell, LA. for the American Bicentennial Celebration

 

VIRGINIA RAILROAD HISTORY

This pre-Civil War map indicates the number of individual railroads that ahve served Virginia through history.

 

 
THE STORY OF RICHMOND'S CHURCH HILL TUNNEL
Church Hill Tunnel is an old Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) tunnel extending for approximately 4,000 feet under the Church Hill section of Richmond, Virginia. Built in the early 1870s, in 1925, the tunnel collapsed on a work train killing four and trapping a steam locomotive and some flat cars. Rescue efforts only resulted in further collapse, and the tunnel was eventually sealed for safety reasons. Portions of the tunnel have continued to wreak havoc above in the years since, and several houses and a wall of a church were destroyed near 25th and Broad Streets. More recently, tennis courts and a wall of a house seem to have been victims farther east. Long the subject of community speculation and trespassing incidents at its eastern end, the tunnel is owned by CSX Transportation. The tunnel, which is still considered dangerous, was featured in a 1998 newspaper article by Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter Mark Holmberg, who explored portions from the eastern end with professional caving personnel and equipment.
Sealed entrance to Church Hill Tunnel, Richmond, VA. as photographed by John DeMajo in 2009
 

RICHMOND'S BROAD STREET UNION STATION

Richmond's Union Station, closed when Amtrak elected to move passenger operations to the Staples Mill Road station,
is now the home of the Virginia Science Museum.
 

Richmond's Triple Crossing is the only place in the entire world where three trains can pass each other on different levels

 

VIEWS OF
MAIN STREET STATION, RICHMOND, VA
(click photos for full-size view)

 

THE RICHMOND RAILROAD MUSEUM

The Richmond Railroad Museum is operated by the Old Dominion Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society

 

 
Web Cam at Roanoke, Virginia Rail Center (Click image above to view camera)

 


Click here to listen to railroad radio communications from Chesterfield, VA.
       

THE SUFFOLK RAILROAD MUSEUM
At Suffolk Virginia

 

 

Amtrak Station at Hammond, Louisiana.
Click on photo above to see a brief video of Amtrak's Chicago bound
"City Of New Orleans" train arriving at the station

Above: The depot at Fredericksburg, VA.

 

Williamsburg, VA. Transportation Center

 

THE BUCKINGHAM BRANCH RAILROAD HEADQUARTERS AT DILLWIN, VA

 

THE VIRGINIA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM AT ROANOKE, VA.

 

 

 

THE CASS STEAM RAILROAD, CASS, WEST VIRGINIA

 

Ride the historic Cass Railroad at Cass, West Virginia. Click the photo above

 

 

Historic station at Orange, VA.

 

 

ASHLAND STATION, Ashland, VA.
View videos of trains passing Ashland Station
AMTRAK North-Bound
CSX Railway Inter modal South-Bound

 

 

Train yard at Squash-A-Penny Junction, Doswell, Virginia

(Click the photo to see train on main line at Doswell Crossing)

 

 

Richmond's "Triple-Crossing" is the only location in the world where three railroads can cross each other on different levels. (Photo by Sanford T. Terry)

 

VIEWS OF THE OLD RAILROAD STATION AND CABOOSE AT FARMVILLE, VA.

 

One of a few remaining WIG-WAG signals left in the United States, This one was located at grade crossing in Westwego, LA.

 

 

Scenes from the NRHS-ODC Hallsboro Yard Open House 9-11-2010 at Hallsboro, VA.

Click on the photo of the engine below to see a movie of it in motion. You must have Quick Time loaded to view the file.

 

SCENES FROM EXCURSION TRAIN TO BLUEFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 2011

 

WE'RE ON THE WAY TO GATHER MORE INTERESTING RAILROAD PHOTOS.... "ALL ABOARD!"

THE MUSEUM OF YESTERDAY
Richmond, VA. USA
www.museumofyesterday.org