Danbury Railway Museum Announces Danbury Railway Days
Danbury Railway Days
Danbury Railway Museum • 120 White St, Danbury, CT 06810
August 3 & 4, 2024
Danbury Railway Days
The Danbury Railway Museum is pleased to once again announce that this year’s Danbury Railway Days will be on Saturday and Sunday, August 3 and 4. Two days full of educational activities and FREE train rides for the whole family is planned. The event will run each day from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM with train rides hourly at 11:00, 12:00, 1:00, and 2:00. Admission to the museum is $12.00 for ages 3 and up, but will be free for Danbury residents
(with proper ID).
The museum will be operating the Railyard Local — a short FREE trip in a vintage 1925 Reading Company passenger coach being pulled by an ALCo RS-1 locomotive built in 1948, with locomotive cab rides available. The train will stop at the old New Haven RR turntable, built circa 1914 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, where visitors will detrain and hear a discussion about the use and history of the only power-operated
turntable in Connecticut, and then take a ride on it! After the turntable ride, watch a demonstration about how diesel-electric locomotives work, how train cars are coupled and uncoupled, and a demonstration of vital railroad communications via hand signals, with kids in attendance assisting the conductor.
After returning to the Danbury Union Station, visitors may tour the New York Central’s famous 20th Century Limited observation car, “Tonawanda Valley” built in 1928, an award-winning restoration. See how the rich and
famous travelled in style.
In the Danbury museum building, visitors can explore railroad history exhibits, operating electric train layouts, static model displays of the station and railyard, many one-of-a-kind artifacts of railroading history, a wonderful gift shop, and many other items of interest, including a used book sale.
Outside in the historic railyard, guests will find walk-through exhibits, including cabooses; a restored 1910 Railway Post Office car; a 1907 B&M Steam locomotive; a visit to the cab of #2006, one of the museum’s FL-9
locomotives; newly-arrived Amtrak AEM-7 electric locomotive #917, with a cab tour available; and a vast assortment of other train cars and locomotives, many that ran in Danbury during its railroading heyday.
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