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The Danbury Railway Museum (reporting mark DRMX) [2] is a railway museum housed in the former Union Station on the east end of downtown Danbury, Connecticut, United States.It was established in the mid-1990s following the closure of the station by the Metro-North Railroad in favor of a new station nearby, and primarily focuses on the history of railroading in southern New England and ...
South Norwalk station, from a postcard printed in the early 1900s South Wilton station, from a postcard sent in 1906 Georgetown station from a postcard sent in 1919 Branchville stations from a postcard circa 1900 Danbury Railway Museum, in 2007, formerly the city's Union Station
At the end of the 1890s Danbury's 35 hat factories led the nation in production, employing 5,000 directly and indirectly. A neon sign with a derby hat on a crown and the legend "Danbury Crowns Them All" greeted arrivals at the new train station (now the Danbury Railway Museum) just east of downtown.
The Switchtower Museum in South Norwalk describes to visitors how railroad employees would switch the tracks for trains continuing on the Danbury branch line, then switch them back for trains travelling along the New Haven main line. [10] The Danbury Railway Museum is located in the former Union Station of the D&N and NY&NE in Danbury.
The Route 66 Historical Village at 3770 Southwest Boulevard in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an open-air museum along historic U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66). [1] The village includes a 194-foot-tall (59 m) oil derrick at the historic site of the first oil strike in Tulsa on June 25, 1901, which helped make Tulsa the "Oil Capital of the World". [1]
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This station along with Crugers were replaced by a new station at Cortland Thornwood Harlem Line: Thornwood: Westchester, NY: New York Central: March 5, 1984 Union Station Danbury Branch: Danbury: Fairfield, CT: New Haven: 1902 1993 Now the Danbury Railway Museum; replaced by Danbury
Opened in 1881, the station was originally located in the Mill Plain area in the western part of Danbury, Connecticut. The station was closed in 1928 and served multiple purposes from 1930 until 2018. The station building was restored and moved to the Danbury Railway Museum in 2019.