Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati

The Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati is a railroad museum in Covington, Kentucky.

Collection

The museum owns and maintains a collection of 80 historic railroad equipment located on a 4-acre (16,000 m2) site.[1]

The museum was founded in 1975 when a club of local railroad enthusiasts decided to run passenger cars on Amtrak trains. Several local members purchased cars for this goal. In the late 1980s, Amtrak tightened its restrictions on passenger cars, making it too expensive for most private citizens to keep them up.

Though the Amtrak excursions ended, the cars remained as the core of the present collection.[2] At that point the goal of the museum changed and now focuses on the preservation of the equipment. Tom Holley, former Chairman of the Board, stated "Now the primary purpose of the museum is the collection of the equipment that belonged to the seven railroads then entered Cincinnati."

Pennsylvania Railroad E8 locomotive #5888 has been undergoing restoration for the past few years. A "theatrical" baggage car (the Juliet, one of 47 built by the Pennsy between 1917 and 1922) sits on the track beside the locomotive and will serve as a mobile staging area for the renovation. The museum also has a large collection of Pullman-Standard cars including the Metropolitan View built in 1938 for the PRR's Broadway Limited, and a BM70nb railway post office (PRR #6518) modernized for the same train.[3]

Some of the other equipment includes former PRR #9408, an EMD SW1 switcher,[4] a preserved Dinky, Brookville BMD 15-ton switcher,[5] former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad modern lightweight coach the La Paz, a preserved troop sleeper, an early Southern Railway business car, and former RI #428 (El Comedor) dining car.[6]

The museum is located at 315 Southern Avenue in the Latonia area of Covington.[7]

Rolling stock
Diesel locomotives
ImageOperatorRoad NumberClassModelDateNotes
Pennsylvania Railroad5888EP-22EMD E81951Undergoing restoration
Pennsylvania Railroad9408ES-6EMD SW11950
Passenger cars
ImageOperatorRoad NumberClassTypeManufacturerDateNotes
Pennsylvania Railroad6518BM70nbRailway Post OfficePRR1912Fully equipped with sorting racks
cancellation tables, parcel bins
Pennsylvania Railroad6062 JulietB70ABaggage carPRR1928Used for the transportation of Theatrical scenery
Pullman Company
Pennsylvania Railroad		WaltersburgPlan 3410A12-1 sleeping carPullman1924
Pullman Company
Pennsylvania Railroad		Cascade GardensPlan 4072B10-5 sleeping carPullman-Standard1939
Pullman Company
Pennsylvania Railroad		Cascade HeightsPlan 4072C10-5 sleeping carPullman-Standard1940
Pullman Company
Pennsylvania Railroad		Metropolitan ViewPlan 4080A1-2 sleeper buffet-lounge-observation carPullman-Standard1938
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad5503 La PazCoachPullman-Standard1949Built for B&O streamliner The Columbian
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad3315 ChicagoTavern-Lounge-Observation carPullman-Standard1949Built for B&O streamliner The Columbian

References
  1. Felix Winternitz & Sacha DeVroomen Bellman (2007). Insiders' Guide to Cincinnati. Globe Pequot. p. 146. ISBN 9780762741809. Retrieved 2013-05-08.
  2. Eigelbach, Kevin (2002-03-19). "All aboard". The Cincinnati Post. E. W. Scripps Company. Archived from the original on 2004-11-14.
  3. http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Prr/Fan/pass_cars.html
  4. http://www.ole.net/~rcraig/PRSVDemdSWs.HTML Archived February 25, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  5. http://www.sonic.net/~jayreed/preserved.html
  6. Day, Teresa (January 30, 2005). Fun With the Family Kentucky: Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids. Globe Pequot. p. 61. ISBN 9780762734900. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  7. "Cincinnati Railway Museum". Retrieved 2014-03-22.

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