Since I have a yearly membership to the museum I had to go to check out the new renewed auto area, but we of course to check out the trains looks like there leaving up the train layout heres some photos to enjoy. Ken ( KG )
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thanxs for sharlng. l'd love to get there
I need to get there soon, its been awhile since I have made the trip. I would like to attempt to do a panoramic shot of the 1601.
I sure wish Lionel would run that Allegheny in the Lionmaster series. Or again in scale with all the goodies.
The Allegheny now has access to the inside of the cab , they finished that project last year, I added more pictures in the tinplate section too.
I have not been to the museum portion of Henry Ford since I was in 6th grade. That was over 34 years ago! Its time I scoop up the kids and take them. Who's layout is that displayed in front of the 1601. Is that a club sponsored layout?
I was able to get my father to donate the IR boxcab to the museum and the other one to the Illinois RR Museum. He was plant manager of the IR Phillipsburg, NJ plant in the 70s and I got to run one of them but can't remember which!
Were the IR boxcabs just for the IR plant? Or did they work for a common carrier railroad at one time?
It is a shame they don't have more room for better photography angles. But at least the pieces are preserved. I believe the DeWitt Clinton is there also.
One of the two came from the Lackawanna and the other was always at the plant. They were used as plant switchers and were painted orange until the bicentennial when they were painted red, white, and blue. I saw some old pictures when they were originally painted black. I'm glad the museum painted it black. The plant had 11 miles of track at its peak. The plant is now gone.
Looks like a lot of fun for the kids. I remember they had a row of cars in this area.. along time ago.
I like how they rotate displays up a bit. Keeps things fresh.
The layout has been used for years, but the scenery was changed last year(?). It used to be a gingerbread Christmas village, but I think the rumor was that the rodents got into where they were storing the buildings and well..... Richard Kughn is board member (if I remember right), and his tinplate carail layout was donated to or bought by the museum when carail closed. I think all the buildings and things on the layout now are from the carail layout.
As Tim mentioned, the NYC's early 1900's replica of the DeWitt Clinton is on display right next to the Allegheny along with it's matching passenger cars, followed by a replica of the "Rocket", and then the 1860(?) Rogers 4-4-0 (which is displayed with an 1800's coach replica). Then there is the CP snowplow in front of the Bessemer Baldwin 2-8-0 (from IRM, they traded a DT&I 4-4-0 for it) and the IR boxcab diesel. The other track has the C&O 1601, a PFE reefer, a DT&I wood caboose, a D&M combine and Henry Ford's private car "Fairlane". They also have a little Davenport 0-4-0T on a separate narrow gauge display track.
Manoogian Trust purchased the CarRail Standard Gauge layout and donated it to the HF. I'm not sure when they intend to install it. The museum also owns a GG-1 that's still in upstate New York. It's supposed to wind up next to the Allegheny, some day. Round House in Greenfield Village is great to visit as well.
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