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Shelburne Museum Train and Railroad Station - Shelburne, Vermont
| The Shelburne Depot Railroad Station was built in 1890, by Dr. W. Seward Webb, then President of the Rutland Railroad and is complete in every detail. Passenger service to the community was discontinued in 1953, and the station was moved to the Museum six years later. The station exhibits a stationmaster's office, waiting rooms for men and women, telegraphy systems, maps, and other late 19th- and early 20th-century railroad memorabilia. The station was a gift of Mr. Vanderbilt Webb and Mr. Cyril Jones to the Shelburne Museum. | |
| Displayed inside are excursion broadsides and bills of lading as well as a remarkable collection of photographs. Railroad manuals and yearbooks sit idly by as outside, the Baldwin engine #220, her boiler stilled forever, waits for the engineer who will never grasp her throttle again. The railroad station and the train itself are just a couple of the museum's highlights and enjoyed by all who visit the grounds. A freight shed, built in 1963, exhibits hand tools and equipment used by railroad workers and includes handcarts, picks and shovels, and signal lanterns from railroad lines across the country. It's very easy to imagine how these tools may have been used in days long since past. Some of the ingenuity lives on but the charm of the railroad will never quite be the same as it once was many years ago. |
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