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In an earlier news posting we visited the Strasburg Railroad in Pennsylvania. As noted then, the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum was right across the street from this museum. In this news posting, I will cover some of the highlights of that visit. The museum was superbly well done and will provide us with many ideas for future possible developments for our museum. Here are captions for the pictures.
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#1 & #2: Here we see the dramatic entrance and main foyer of the museum. Not shown is the large museum store to the left of the main entrance.
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#3: Here we find a beautifully restored Pennsylvania Railway E-8 Diesel locomotive.
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#4 & #5: Here we find the museum’s full-sized railway simulator which actually is a historic item in itself with yours truly in the engineer’s seat. Unlike our planned simulator, this one was used by the Norfolk Southern to train engineers. As they worked the controls they controlled the running of a video which the railway had produced for this purpose of one specific stretch of track. In our simulator we will be using a real-time computer-driven simulation system as used today by several railways.
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#6: Here we find a beautifully restored Penssylvania Railway GG-1 Electric locomtoive designed by the famed Raymond Loewy.
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Posting and Pictures by Russ and Pat Milland
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