West Virginia Railroad Museum

Hello!
For those of you who aren't aware, a railroad museum has been founded in West Virginia. It will be located in Elkins, West Virginia, at the site of the old Western Maryland yard, next to the WM station. There are a lot of planned equipment being rounded up for the museum as well as fundraisers for equipment aquisition and museum development. For more information, go to www.wvrrmuseum.com. Thanks a lot!!
Keith

Hello!!

Current equipment already acquired by the West Virginia Railroad Museum include:

Baltimore and Ohio class I-18 bay window caboose, #C3014, at Belington, WV

Fruit Growers Express refrigerated boxcar, FGEX 56547, at Durbin, WV

Baltimore and Ohio class O-41 drop end gondola, B&O 350370

Baltimore and Ohio E8 passenger diesel locomotive, Baltimore, MD

These four items above were donated to the museum by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum

The items as follows were acquired through museum efforts:

Middle Fork Railroad Heisler #7, at Durbin, West Virginia

West Virginia Northern Baldwin Consolidations, still at Hyndman, PA, waiting for the funds for relocation

The former Western Maryland Railwat Alco FA2 #303 will be on loan from the Western Maryland Historical Society for operation by the West Virginia Central Railroad for the museum, as soon as it is delivered to Elkins.

The museum has also acquired some non-equipment artifacts:

Former B&O engineer, George Pratt, of Connellsville, Pa., has donated approximately 250 framed Howard Fogg calendar art reproductions and a large collection of Southern steam locomotive drawings.

William Russell, of Wilmington, Del., has donated some 125 black and white photographs of B&O steam locomotives—many taken in West Virginia. There also are several photos of Coal & Coke Railway locomotives in B&O livery.

As of just before the Highballin' for History railfan weekend the collection grew by four cars, which were featured on the trains in Durbin, operating behind the Climax. Two of the cars are coal hoppers of C&O vintage which are to be restored to their C &O colors, and two of them are flat cars which are to be lettered for Middle Fork Railroad. For some nice photos of these cars in the train, go to railpictures.net.


http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=107189

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=107221

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=103481

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=103479

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=103477

http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=103476

P.S. All four of these new cars came from the South Branch Valley Railroad in Moorefield, West Virginia.

Website update...

http://www.wvrailmuseum.com/index.asp