B&O Railroad Museum

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Heather and I went with one of her friends and her friend’s two young boys to the B&O Railroad Museum.  I visited this museum in 8th grade.  It’s even better than I remember it.

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The beautifully restored roundhouse.  Between my previous visit and this visit, the roof of the roundhouse had collapsed under a heavy snow load and was rebuilt.


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This American Freedom Train wasn’t kept running like the 4449 Daylight has been.  Too bad.


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The first stone laid on the first railroad in America.

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The original style of railway coach used in America.

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An O gauge train with an aquarium car!

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I love the design of the interior of the roundhouse.

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An incredibly old steam engine.


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The Christmas train layouts were all setup in the roundhouse.

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An interesting machine used to check the interior dimensions of tunnels.

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Looking up into the dome.

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An old car converted into a rail car.

Caleb got a ride on the kids train.



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A transformer on a flat bed car.


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A troop train car.

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In the old repair building.  Now it is filled with historic locomotives.

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A streamlined steam engine.

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Some serious machine tools!  They remind me of what I saw where Steph worked in Sydney.

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Just look at those mechanical things!

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I meant to go to school to become an engineer.  Instead I ended up as an engineer. Maybe next life I will read the fine print before I get too far into things.


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Love that iron!

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So many knobs!


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These engines are HUGE!

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A fireless locomotive.  It would be filled up with superheated steam from an industrial source and could run in a switch yard for several hours before it would need to recharge again.

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So many great old steam engines.  It makes me sad that they aren’t in running condition.  I hate to see the grand mechanical marvels of yesteryear slowly rust away into nothing.

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Back in the main roundhouse.

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A Camel engine.  The cab is directly over the boiler but the fireman has to stand outside in the weather.

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A Civil War-era steam engine.

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There was a modular N-scale layout setup to one side of the roundhouse.

IMG_4586Slumbering beasts.  Hopefully one day they will be able to reawaken.