This RF&P depot has been repurposed as a science museum.
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| Street View, Mar 2020 [Those school kids must have taken that trip rather soon before the pandemic lockdown.] |
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| Street View, Jul 2019 |
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| StyleWeekly |
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| RichmondRailroadMuseum This station was also referred to as the Union Terminal, it handled three of the six railroads in Richmond: RF&P, ACL and N&W. |
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| Robert P, Jul 2017, via TripAdvisor [The museum has a SR-71 Blackbird and steam locomotive on display] |
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| 1 of 12 photos posted by Steve Russo Richmond Virginia in April of 1982. The old terminal was in the process of being converted into a science museum with a brand new planetarium. Since I was in the planetarium field at that time (I just retired from five decades in the field), I was allowed to go in and take some pictures around the facility, including getting a "hard hat" tour of the new planetarium under construction. The lines on the ground by the flagpole, actually was for a large sundial where the flagpole would cast a shadow. I always enjoyed this building, as I remember as a kid, taking the train from NYP to MIA and backing into this station. The smell from the FFV Cookie Factory permeated the air, mixed with the smell of the diesel engines! LOL! Virgil Fitzpatrick: For reference, there's 2 old stations in Richmond. This is the old RF&P/Seaboard station. The C&O Main Street Station is downtown. And there's an old C&O Kanawha here at this one, parked out back. Dennis DeBruler Virgil Fitzpatrick "The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac (RF&P), the Atlantic Coast Line (ACL), and the Norfolk and Western (N&W) used Broad Street Station. The Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) and the Seaboard AirLine Railroad (SAL) used Main Street Station. The Southern Railway (SR) used Hull Street Station." |
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| smv-forum Originally, the dining room |
But, unlike the Union Depot in Joliet that is always closed to the public, the public can experience the interior of this building since it is also a science museum.
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| Joel_in_MD, Jan 2017, via TripAdvisor |
The rotunda is 100' high.
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| Alexsander Popenoe Welker posted I discovered this weekend that this bay window caboose resides at the Virginia Science Museum in Richmond, formerly known as the RF&P depot. Jeff Hawkins: Formerly Broad Street Station which served the RF&P, ACL, N&W, and later the SAL. Dennis DeBruler shared |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on his share | https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5... |
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