Matt Meltzer and I drove from the Huckleberry Railroad to Saginaw and found the Saginaw Railroad Museum. Inside Chesapeake and Ohio baggage car 911245, we found Joe and after a few minutes, we both started to explore.
This Historical Society is headquartered in the Saginaw Railway Museum, a restored 1907 Pere Marquette depot that stood in Hemlock, Michigan until it was moved to Saginaw in 1983. There is an HO scale model train display in the basement, operated by the Society. Come see us, either at the Museum or at this site, to learn about trains and railroad technology! We'll show you how they were and now are, along with railroad lore and legends, through our changing display of artifacts, tools, photos, maps, and more.
Chesapeake and Ohio baggage-railway post office car 911245 built in 1931 and later converted to maintenance-of-way.
Whistle post beside the baggage car.
Chesapeake and Ohio caboose 903577, nee Chesapeake and Ohio 3577 built by the railroad in 1969.
Canadian National business car "Cacouna", ex. US Rail Corp 1980, exx. Canadian National 15101 1975, exxx. Canadian National 40 1973, nee Canadian National 7 compartment/buffet/lounge/observation 1040 "Cacouna" built by Canadian Car and Foundry in 1928.
Consumers Power Company RS-1 401, ex. Vermont Railroad 401, nee Rutland Railroad 401 built by American Locomotive Company in 1951.
Grand Trunk Western express box car 11493, builder and year unknown.
Track workers car.
Views around the museum.
Ann Arbor Railroad outside-braced wooden box car X4435, builder and year unknown.
Grand Trunk Western Railroad box car 515223, builder and year unknown.
A concrete whistle post.
Another track worker's car.
Pere Marquette Railroad property line marker.
Trainorder hoop stand and another whistle post.
Ann Arbor Railroad boxcar 1102, built by Pullman-Standard in 1957.
Morris Nover Iron 25 ton switcher 114, nee United States Army 7766 built by General Electric in December 1943.
Chesapeake and Ohio caboose 977, nee Pere Marquette A977 built by St. Louis Car Company in 1941.
Another Pere Marquette property line marker.
Trainorders signals.
The former Pere Marquette Hemlock station, built in 1900, now restored and part of the Saginaw Railroad Museum.
A maintenance-of-way marker.
Mershon Tower, formerly at crossings of Pere Marquette/Michigan Central/Grand Trunk Western/Saginaw-Bay City Electric near Carrollton Road andWeiss, built by Michigan Central in the late 1800's.
Storage buildings.
AcCrossing signal.
Switch stands.
Railroad telephone booths.
Switch stands of a different type.
Railroad telephone box. We went inside the Canadian National business car before visiting the station.
The station agent's desk had many items of interest.
A Morse Code chart.
Telegraph keys.
A typewriter.
Locomotive headlight and number boards. Next we went down into the basement to see the model railroad.
The HO scale model railroad.
Railroad track layout boards. With that, we turned out the lights and locked the building before thanking Joe for opening the museum for Matt and I. We drove back to Owosso and Train Festival 2009.
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