Brunswick Railroad Museum
- Brunswick Railroad Museum
The Brunswick Railroad Museum is a railroad museum in Brunswick, Maryland.
Museum focus
The museum demonstrates the effect of railroads on society in a company town, using the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's effect on Brunswick as an example.
Exhibits
It is housed in a 100-year-old, 3-story brick building, with the second floor composed of historic exhibits, and the whole third floor an HO scale model railroad layout depicting the B&O Railroad's Metropolitan line (the MET) from Washington, DC to Brunswick, Maryland, in the late 1950s, as well as showing the Brunswick classification yards, which at one time were about convert|8|mi|km long.
Locomotives/rolling stock
No actual railroad cars (rolling stock) are owned, but the layout displays many types of equipment that were used. The museum is located less than a block from the Brunswick Line MARC commuter line and four tracks of CSX mainline.
pecial events
The largest annual event at the museum is Railroad Days, held during the first full weekend in October.
External links
* [http://www.brrm.net/ The Brunswick Railroad Museum]
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