Photos tagged as museums
Travel Photography Photos tagged as museums
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Yard Sign
This gives you some idea how large this Railway Museum is
- Date: 2 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Photo of WWI Troop Train
During WWI, trains were the most common form of transportation to get troops to and from home. Communities would turn out to see their men off or welcome them home.
- Date: 2 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, SRS Detector Car
Sperry Rail Service Detector Car (1928). This was initially built as a self propelled baggage/passenger car. In 1945, Sperry modified it to use to find faults in RR tracks. It remained in service until 2003, finding over 20,000 defects in tracks.
- Date: 2 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Track Display
Cross sections from many different sizes of track are on display. The one on the right is the most common size in use today, 140#. Track size is listed based on how much a three foot section weights, or 140 pounds in this case.
- Date: 2 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Steam Engine Tender
Coal was loaded in the bed of the tender. Water was stored in tanks in the walls of the tender. Enought water and coal was carried for about one day's travel.
- Date: 2 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Steam Engine Info
Some of the museum train's have very informative signs, such as this one explaining how a steam engine works.
- Date: 2 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Steam Engine Controls
The sign in the center shows the location & names of the controls for this steam engine. Two men worked here, the engineer and fireman - who kept the engine supplied with coal.
- Date: 2 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Steam Engine
This is Engine 1455 for the Boston & Maine Railroad. It was built in 1907 and ran on Steam, created by burning coal below a boiler. It remained in service until 1955.
- Date: 2 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Dsl Engine
This was built in 1947 by GM. It had two, 12 cylinder diesel engines that ran electric generators to power electric motors on the wheels. Together, the two engines produced 2,600 hp.
- Date: 2 November 2007
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- Location: Danbury, USA
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Mom in Depot
Mom saw the stove in the train depot and thought it would be a good place to keep warm (she was kidding of course, the stove isn't used anymore).
- Date: 2 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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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
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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
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- Location: Danbury, USA
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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
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- Location: Danbury, USA
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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
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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
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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
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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
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- Location: Danbury, USA
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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
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- Location: Danbury, USA
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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
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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
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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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
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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
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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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
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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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.
- Date: 2 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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Day 62 - Danbury Railway Museum, Mail Car after Restoration
This is what the Post Office car looks like today, after extensive restoration.
- Date: 2 November 2007
- Photographer: jl98584: gallery
- Location: Danbury, USA
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