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Caught a couple of weeks ago passing through Elkhart, Indiana. I am not sure who owns the tracks there, no two trains that passed through while I was there were led by locos with the same paint job. In the background is the Elkhart station.

The Danbury Railway Museum will be holding its annual Spring Railfair on May 1 snd 2, 2004. Something new has been added. A Railroad Rodeo. The following is from Ira Pollack, President of the DRM: The May 1st Railroad Rodeo sponsored by Metro North will be an interesting event and a...

This was reported to me by a fellow volunteer at the Danbury Railway Museum. The last weekend before Christmas a soldier on leave from Iraq came into the DRM gift shop to by some books to take back with him. He left with $500.00 worth, saying they were for himself and his buddies.

In order to raise money for the restoration of the former B&M Mogul # 1455, the artist of this watercolor, Andrew Nielly, has donated 200 lithograph prints. The Museum is making them available for a donation of at least $50.00. Actually, less than 200 are still available. Print number 1 will...

This ride was part of the Long Island Railroad Pavillian at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair.

This is a one-of-a-kind item at the Danbury Railway Museum--GCT-1--a double-ended crane. It was built specially for use in the tunnels of Grand Central Terminal. The problem in photographing this crane was its length, which is 90 feet from the tip of one boom to the tip if the other...

The GSMR engineer is returning to GP-7, number 777, after stopping to give the passengers and crew a lunch break alongside the Nantahola River,in the western part of North Carolina.

This scene was photographed last week while my wife and I were vacationing in Western North Carolina. The location is Chimny Rock. No further comment necessary.

At the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair: This is part of a slide program I shot during the two years of the Fair. The camera I was using then was a Rolleiflex T, which uses 120 film. The film was all High Speed Ektachrome, which has lasted through the years in excellent condition...

A sure sign of Spring is when railfans return to their Northern habitat. Here is one that turned up at the Danbury Railway Museum last Wednesday. Camera: Nikon Coolpix 995 Settings - Shutter Priority Shutter: 1/125 sec. White Balance: Cloudy Focus: Auto ISO: 100

My wife and I made a quick trip to Paris to celebrate her birthday last month. Naturally I had to bring back a picture or two on a train theme. Here is the first one shot as a train was pulling into a metro station. Here's a train going through in the other direction. This gives a...

I know many of the members here are also fans of trucking and some wanted to know when this new museum opened. It opened about a week ago. Their web site: <http://www.goldenagetruckmuseum.com/> And I photographed four of their trucks just for a sample. Click here for those...

I picked this up from the Hartford paper by way of my Yahoo News link: From the Hartford Courant Station Fans Launch Restoration Drive Mon Jul 22, 8:43 AM ET By WILLIAM SCHUBERT When youths set fire to the historic Union Station in...

On Monday, March 25, 2002, the Danbury Railway Museum took delivery of an EMD SW-8, donated by the Pfizer Corporation. The unit is in excellent working condition and has already been put into service. With the arrival of the SW-8, the DRM can temporarily shut down their hard-working Alco...

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Here are some new arrivals at the Danbury Railway Museum--all within the last few months---one each: FL-9, RS-3m, RSC-2, and a couple of box cars known to be original New Haven. http://public.fotki.com/Peirce/railroad/danbury_rr_museum_3/

OK, Alco fans, here are three of them. Left to right: RS-11, RS-1. FA-4. Location: Danbury Railway Museum, Danbury, CT.