Tennessee Central Railway Museum
EMD F7 locomotive | |
| Established | 1989 |
|---|---|
| Location | 220 Willow Street Nashville, Tennessee 37210 |
| Coordinates | 36°9′17.5″N 86°45′17″W / 36.154861°N 86.75472°W |
| Type | Railroad museum, Heritage railway |
| Key holdings | NC&StL 576 Locomotive |
| Website | www |
The Tennessee Central Railway Museum (TCRM, reporting mark TCRX[1]) is a railroad museum located in Nashville, Tennessee.
It is a small non-profit facility which is preserving the heritage of rail transport in Tennessee and the central South. The museum's name honors the former Tennessee Central Railway.
The museum maintains a collection of historic rolling stock which it restores and uses for rail excursions in the area, both for fundraising and educational purposes.
It runs an all-volunteer heritage railroad dedicated to preserving, restoring, interpreting, and operating historic railroad equipment. TCRM currently has nine diesel-electric locomotives and thirty other cars/engines.
Inside the freight depot where the museum is located, there are railroad artifacts and memorabilia, a gift shop, and a large room where model train layouts in HO and N scale are displayed.
See also
- Cookeville Depot Museum
- List of heritage railroads in the United States
- Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis 576
References
- ^ Railinc, Search MARKs Archived July 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, accessed September 2009