www.railfan.com/linesidelegacy The Museum of Transportation
Opens a New Visitor Center GUEST COLUMNIST: RON GOLDFEDER
R.V Photo: George Gabritsch
.Q. CELEBRATES 20 YEARS !! RAILROAD VIDEO QUARTERLY - ISSUE #77
Fall 2011 Two Hours “Cr ipple Effect”: Challenges to Regional Railroads The Big Engine that Almost Didn’t
TRAIN FESTIVAL 2011 and Nine more subjects. Photo: Steve Barry
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Winter on the Strasburg,
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WINTER 2012 MANIFEST - ISSUE #78
1. PULL HARD! STEAM WHISTLE FESTIVAL, YOUNGSTOWN
2. TOYS FOR TOTS AT CLEVELAND ROUNDHOUSE
3. AMTRAK FALL JOURNEY- CAPITOL LIMITED & CARDINAL DOME (Night cab ride on #51; Kanawah River Terminals veteran diesels)
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7. BOSTON & MAINE PLOW TRAINS AND WINTER ACTION
8. ROTARIES ON DONNER - WINTER 2011
9. "WESTBOUND LIMITED" - 1937 FILM EXCERPTS
10. LAST DAYS OF GREEN BAY & WESTERN ALCOS - 1993
11. N-S F-UNIT AND STEAM SPECIALS, #630
On exhibit at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Mo., in the new William R. and Laura Rand Orthwein Education and Visitor Center, is this 1834 Boston & Providence coach, thought to be the oldest original North American railroad passenger car in existence.
THE MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION in St. Louis County, Mo., opened a new 13,800 square foot building on March 1, 2012. The William R. and Laura Rand Orthwein Education and Visitor Center marks a new chapter in the long history of one of the pre- mier railroad museums in the country and is also a landmark in the museum’s first suc- cessful capital campaign in its 58-year histo- ry. The new building houses the entrance and visitor center along with a small exhibit hall, gift shop, and the very successful Creation Station structured play area for children. It is located inside a loop of track for the muse- um’s two-foot-gauge miniature train ride, with the station just a short walk away. Since the campaign began in 1998, it has
also financed a public restroom building at the streetcar line loop in 2004, the new miniature train loop in 2005, a two-level,
2400-square-foot addition to the automobile building that was the original home of the Creation Station in 2005, and the renova- tion of an instruction car as the Train of Thought classroom car in 2007. The next phase is expected to add a large exhibit hall which will double the size of the new build- ing to 27,900 square feet. The Museum of Transportation is one of
the oldest of its kind in the nation. Its histo- ry dates from 1944 when a small group of people joined together to preserve a mule- drawn streetcar that the local streetcar com- pany was about to scrap. Bellefontaine Rail- way car No. 33 was built by the Andrew Wight Car Company of St. Louis between 1870 and 1875. After its replacement by elec- tric cars in 1895, it was placed at the far end of a trolley line as a waiting room. When more modern Peter Witt streetcars were in-
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