Model Trains and Railroading at Medina Railroad Museum in New York

The Medina Railroad Museum surrounds its huge HO scale layout with display cases full of various scale model trains, along with hundreds of items of railroad memorabilia and history.
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The museum covers railroad history from the late 1800’s to the present day. Various cases along the perimeter of the “layout room” display different artifacts pertaining to different jobs of the railroad.
These jobs include track maintenance,locomotive operation, also passenger and freight service. Each case shows artifacts from rail companies predominantly from the eastern United States.
Each railway company had their own way of doing things to their standards; with the rail line outside of the museum formally New York Central the museum tends to focus on the history of the Central Lines.
One of the main showcases you will see in the museum is the case dedicated to the New York Central ‘999’ locomotive. In May 1893, it broke the world speed record as the fastest moving vehicle. It was clocked at going 112.5 mph between Batavia and Corfu. The actual working bell from the locomotive is displayed next to the case.
The building is the second New York Central Freight House built in this location.
The building is one of the longest wooden structures built by New York Central, coming in at 301 feet long by 25 feet wide.
The current freight house was completed in 1905, and ran as a passenger station and freight for three years until the current passenger station (located across West Avenue) was completed in 1908.
The freight house was one of the main distribution center for Western New York. The building became inactive in 1963, with the decline of the New York Central; it was sold to the Hickey’s Furniture Store.
They ran their storage and The Village Square Furniture store here, when in 1991 they decided to retire and put it up for sale and founder, Martin “Marty” Phelps, bought the property to begin the future of the Medina Railroad Museum.
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