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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Model of Roundhouse

The museum has several very well done model railroad sets. This is a picture of just the roundhouse from their 1950's Danbury RR yard model. This was an N scale model.

Date: 2 November 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Model of Mail Drop

This is just a model, but demonstrates how a town would hang their mail pouch for the Post Office car to catch on their hook.

Date: 2 November 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Mail Car Interior

Post Office Employee's worked on the train and actually sorted mail between stops.

Date: 2 November 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Mail Car Interior long

This is a view of the interior of the Post Office car after restoration. It was quite a job as they had to fabricate parts that were beyond salvage, like many of the light fixtures.

Date: 2 November 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Mail Pickup Hook

The train didn't actually stop at many of the smaller towns, so would slow to about 25 mph. A postal employee would kick off any mail bags to be delivered to that town. Also, someone would open this door, pull down the wood handle, which would raise the hook to grab the mail bag to pick up from mail from the town.

Date: 2 November 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Photo Mail Car before Restoration

This is a photo of the Post Office car the Museum was given. A great deal of work has gone into it's restoration.

Date: 2 November 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Freight Care Before Work

The museum was given two very similar cars in similar condition at the same time. One has been restored, this one had not, obviously.

Date: 2 November 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Freight Car After Work

This is the freight car that has been restored. Before restoration, it looked a lot like the other car they still have, but haven't restored yet.

Date: 2 November 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Diesel/Electric Engine

In the front is a 12 cylinder GM diesel engine, the generator & turbine are in rear (right side of photo). The two, 12 cylinder engines were mounted end to end in the Engine.

Date: 2 November 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Dsl Brakeman Seat

The Brakeman sat on the left, in this seat, the Engineer on the right in a similar seat.

Date: 2 November 2007
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Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Double-Ended Crane

This Wrecker was built specifically for the tunnels of Grand Central Terminal and has lifting booms at each end so that it doesn't matter which direction it heads into the tunnel. It is over 90 feet long and can lift 100 tons.

Date: 2 November 2007
Photographer: jl98584: gallery
Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Conductors Gear

The hat, change maker and ticket punch were used by conductors on passenger trains.

Date: 2 November 2007
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Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Roger Williams Cab Cars

These were from an experiment in self-propelled passenger cars from 1957. The cab was supposed to look 'modern' like an airliner.

Date: 2 November 2007
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Location: Danbury, USA: gallery
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Depot before Restoration

In 1955, there was a very high flood that pretty much doomed the already ailing train depot. This is a photo of what it looked like before it was restored.