Broad St Station, Richmond VA

The one and only time I ever went there was in the Early 1990's. My dad wanted to see the Batmobile from the Tim Burton movie that for some reason was donated and on display there. Is it still there?  

It is a beautiful building. It seems that some of the old displays that used to be at the small Richmond RR museum have been moved there like the C&O 2-8-4. 

It is a grand old building, reminiscent of Jefferson's University of Virginia.  The track layout was rather odd, requiring trains to back into the station. 

Very nice photos!!  Lots of information reside in those images.  Thanks for posting Peter!

Peter, Seems like a classic, beautiful station that would never get built today. 

Thanks for sharing.

Tom

Peter:

is this the same station that I95 passes by?

Robert

Zac posted:

Peter:

is this the same station that I95 passes by?

Robert

No......that is Main Street Station.......

https://www.google.com/search?...i10i24k1.inN_dAnWjy4

Peter

You can see the inside of the Rotunda in the latest pics on this thread....it's beautiful....

https://ogrforum.com/t...15#69425981517855415

Peter

Farmer_Bill posted:

It is a grand old building, reminiscent of Jefferson's University of Virginia.  The track layout was rather odd, requiring trains to back into the station. 

As to the track layout, there was a "loop track" that the ACL and RF&P used to enter and exit the station because they were the first tenants of the station and it allowed both of them to access the station without reverse moves.  HOWEVER, the SAL had to back into the station because its main was not connected to the loop in such a way to allow "pull in/pull out" operation.

It is a beautiful building, and a great science museum.  I visited it back in June 1993 while I was on vacation.

Stuart

Thanks for posting those pics. Brought back memories for my Dad, who often took the RF&P to D.C. From Richmond back in the 50s for his work.  His office was just down the street, across from the Seaboard building now  stands. 

Silver Lake posted:

The one and only time I ever went there was in the Early 1990's. My dad wanted to see the Batmobile from the Tim Burton movie that for some reason was donated and on display there. Is it still there?  

It is a beautiful building. It seems that some of the old displays that used to be at the small Richmond RR museum have been moved there like the C&O 2-8-4. 

No Batmobile.

The 2-8-4 was moved to the museum in 2003. The former RF&P passenger car that was with the 2-8-4 at the old visitor's center (yes, it did look like a small railroad museum) was sold and moved to a private residence. The city has still not redeveloped the land this was all on - yet they were in a big hurry to get the railroad equipment out of there!

There is other railroad equipment at the science museum besides the C&O locomotive including RF&P business car "ONE", a Chessie bay window caboose and a single truck trolley car from Brazil.