Depot: (
Satellite, this is now the
O. Winston Link & History Museum of Western Virginia. 124 photos)
The depot is a rather modern looking building.
O. Winston Link was famous for taking railroad photos at night with a lot of light bulbs. The "three modes of transportation" photo is one of them that is featured by the museum.
I did not know that
Raymond Loewy designed some buildings. He redesigned the depot in 1949.
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It looks like a former mainline tower in the lower-left corner.
The striped down boiler allows you to see how they were built with rivets. Normally, the boiler is cladded and we see just a sheet-metal cover, not the boiler itself.
Most of the openings for the fire tubes are lost in the shadows or behind tree leaves. We can see one big tube. That probably had
superheater tubes in it.
In addition to railroad stuff, it has stage coaches cars, trucks, busses, fire fighting equipment, airplanes, boats and a rocket. It also has some miscellaneous stuff such as a snow cat, a bulldozer, a street car, an old school bus, an
RPO, a GG1, a CTC board and a model railroad layout. Judging from some photos, it looks like you can see the interior of the RPO and at least one caboose. I also saw the gondola for a hot air balloon.
Miscellaneous
A mystery building:
This post is what taught me about these two museums.
Mike Hartman
posted seven photos with the comment:
October 3, 2000 - Visiting Family in the (suburban) Roanoke, Virginia area necessitated a visit to the Virginia Museum of Transportation and, in a few years after these photos, the O Winston Link Museum. The O Winston Link Museum is in the former N&W Passenger Station. Adjacent N&W/NS Yards housed several interesting buildings and equipment.
Some of the former Conrail "Executive" fleet of cars, as well as test cars were on-site, still in Conrail paint and markings, as depicted here.
Looking at Google Earth/Maps, things appear a little different in track structure and buildings now compared to 22 years ago.
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