Train Left the Station

Lots of rivets.
Lots of rivets.

There is a train museum in Richmond. No, it’s not housed in the 1917 grand former RF&P Broad Street Station ( https://albertvick.com/2013/01/08/that-train-dont-stop-here-anymore/ ‎), and the building is not as elegant as the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, VA (re-designed in 1946 in the Streamlined Moderne style by noted industrial designer Raymond Loewy). (https://albertvick.com/2013/09/02/star-city-of-the-south/)

Managed by the Old Dominion Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, the Richmond Railroad Museum is in Old Manchester, and has very, very limited hours of operation.

This boxcar must be where they kept the strongbox.
This boxcar must be where they kept the strongbox.
A cute little building, the Southern Railway passenger station was built in 1914.
A cute little building, the Southern Railway passenger station was built in 1914.

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