Museum Exhibits

The Southeastern Railway Museum offers a ton of railway cars for exploration. Throughout the property, you and your family will encounter Baggage Cars, Cabooses, Postal Cars, Locomotives, and much more. Many of our exhibits are very large and open for exploration, providing you with many perfect photo opportunities.

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The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) has graciously donated one of their original order of 20 railcars to SRM. Railcar #509 was built by Société Franco-Belge and placed into service in 1981. This group of cars is unusual in that they have operator’s cabs at both ends and can operate singularly. The rest of MARTA’s car fleet run as married pairs. Watch as the MARTA, Silk Road Trucking and SRM teams gingerly bring the car in and unload it at our museum. Read more: https://www.train-museum.org/2022/11/18/marta-donates-railcar-to-the-southeastern-railway-museum/ Southeastern Railway Museum: https://www.train-museum.org/ Marta's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NkUwe6dlQ8&feature=emb_imp_woyt
The work continues. Building a Switcher Truck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b2gYg54YJ4&t=2s Trucking our Switch Engine SRM 8202: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk1YJ98KRYw&t=3s SRM 8202 Start and Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=177spGMVcSM&t=2s SRM 8202 Aug 2022 Update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqkgC5qRWTk&t=39s
Much to our surprise, we’ve had several thousand views of our three videos about putting our switcher back together. Lots of good comments too. So we thought you would enjoy an update. Bunch of minor stuff to sort out. Building a Switcher Truck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b2gYg54YJ4 Trucking our Switch Engine SRM 8202: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk1YJ98KRYw&t=3s SRM 8202 Start and Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=177spGMVcSM&t=1s
Now that the trucks are built we prepare the locomotive underframe, install and connect the trucks. More than meets the eye. Link to Part 1, “Building a Switcher Truck”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b2gYg54YJ4 Link to Part 3, 8202 startup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=177spGMVcSM
After at least 12 years of slumber the old girl wakes up goes for a drive. Plus a bit of “What makes it tick.” Part 1, “Building a Switcher Truck”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b2gYg54YJ4 Part 2, “Trucking our Switch Engine SRM 8202”:
The video is well done to the point that it won't leave you in a clutch. It's that fluid!
After a long slumber, our trackmobile has its first job. Thanks to Nick Henderson for the action video segments.
In this video you will see first hand what it takes in Assembling the rear truck for our EMD SW7 locomotive. Former Southern Railway switcher number 8202. Many thanks to our volunteers who helped on this project: Ryan Bornstein, Armeen Hedari, Nick Henderson, Mike Lippincott, Caleb Samples, Andrew Durden, Jackson Stewart, Eligia Gooden, Nathan Kissiedu, Nick Frazier.
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