Coordinates: 36°9′17.5″N 86°45′17″W / 36.154861°N 86.75472°W / 36.154861; -86.75472

Tennessee Central Railway Museum

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The Tennessee Central Railway Museum (TCRM, reporting mark TCRX[1]) is a railroad museum located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a small non-profit facility which is preserving the heritage of rail transport in Tennessee and the central South. The museum's name honors the former Tennessee Central Railway. The museum maintains a collection of historic rolling stock which it restores and uses for rail excursions in the area, both for fundraising and educational purposes. It runs an all-volunteer heritage railroad dedicated to preserving, restoring, interpreting, and operating historic railroad equipment. TCRM currently has nine diesel-electric locomotives and thirty other cars/engines. Inside the freight depot where the museum is located, there are railroad artifacts and memorabilia, a gift shop, and a large room where model train layouts in HO and N scale are displayed.

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References

  1. Railinc, Search MARKs, accessed September 2009

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36°9′17.5″N 86°45′17″W / 36.154861°N 86.75472°W / 36.154861; -86.75472