BO B&O Mount Clare Museum damage

Let me repost that address;

www.borail.org

Click on Roundhose Restoration icon

 

Correction again!

Click on the Fair of the Iron Horse image at the top of thier home page

 

I see the images are not showing via my Yahoo! Web Site so I'm working on uploading them to RailImages . I will edit the above posting once I have them available from viewing.

 

Darren, they are up now, and thanks for sharing. Like you, most of my coverage of the museum (back in '95) is on video. I took few stills. Just glad I got to visit when it was in one piece.

 

Darren,
They sure are showing up! Good work.. Nice to see the old roundhouse in one peice Concidering what it is now, an what its like on the inside!

I see you got a picture of the "Lafyette" Or however thats spelled...Ohh hect with it, It was a "Norris" type loco "4-2-0" The original was the first Horizontal boiler locomotive for the B&O....

 

Great pics! I love that last one of the Mother Hubbard!

Russ

 

Here is a link to the latest pix released by the museum. In the article is another link that will take you to the pix. Those of you fond of old 1800's passenger and baggage cars will probably cry when you see Nos. 5, 8, and 9.
B&O Museum 3-5-03

 

Thats a shame! I hate to see what damage it done in real life being for some reason, I have a feeling these pictures doesn't give what happened justice. Those old passenger cars are probably a total loss.....

Jim, CRY???? Yeah I hear that it aches me this happen. To some of the oldest railroad history in the USA! Not to mention the oldest still opperational locomotive in the country as well

 

A very sad day in railroad history indeed

 

I saw the images on CNN when they were doing coverage of the storm. They only mentioned the damage briefly and showed the images for a couple seconds. I was really shocked not only by the amount of damage, but also because I knew that many valuable and historic pieces were probably seriously damaged. What a shame.

 

I know this is an old posting; but, I thought some might wish to see some photographs I took in 1999 before this mess all happened.

Before the storm (From my RailImages gallery)


After the storm (From B&O Site)

 

Darren,
A shame I know, it still aches me of what happen to the heritage of the B&O (an what was left of it!)

But I hope they have some type efforts to rebuid those that can be an then the ones that can't save/salvage some of the parts like number plates an such....