Tennessee Central Railway Museum

Railroad museum From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Tennessee Central Railway Museum (TCRM, reporting mark TCRX[1]) is a railroad museum located in Nashville, Tennessee.

Established1989 (1989)
Location220 Willow Street
Nashville, Tennessee 37210
Coordinates36°9′17.5″N 86°45′17″W
Quick facts Established, Location ...
Tennessee Central Railway Museum
Overlapping "T" and "C" inside a maroon circle
EMD F7A locomotive with a Mars Light oscillating beacon in the lower lamp housing below the main twin beam headlight up top
EMD F7 locomotive
Established1989 (1989)
Location220 Willow Street
Nashville, Tennessee 37210
Coordinates36°9′17.5″N 86°45′17″W
TypeRailroad museum, Heritage railway
Key holdingsNC&StL 576 Locomotive
Websitewww.tcry.org
Close

It is a small non-profit facility which is preserving the heritage of rail transport in Tennessee and the central South. The museum's name honors the former Tennessee Central Railway.

The museum maintains a collection of historic rolling stock which it restores and uses for rail excursions in the area, both for fundraising and educational purposes.

It runs an all-volunteer heritage railroad dedicated to preserving, restoring, interpreting, and operating historic railroad equipment. TCRM currently has nine diesel-electric locomotives and thirty other cars/engines.

Inside the freight depot where the museum is located, there are railroad artifacts and memorabilia, a gift shop, and a large room where model train layouts in HO and N scale are displayed.

See also

References

Related Articles

Wikiwand AI