The historic 1903 Danbury Station was used by Metro-North and its predecessor the New Haven Railroad until 1993 and today houses the Danbury Railway Museum. Metro-North trains now stop at a modern station on the southern side of the rail yard, today the historic station house’s interior consists of the railway museum with various artifacts, including a remaining track-sign Solari board. To reach the museums large collection of over 75 pieces of historic railroad equipment, visitors using a private grade-crossing directly behind the museum to cross the tracks used by Metro-North trains as their lay-up yard. This means, when visiting the museum on weekends and holidays, the Dual-Mode trainsets that make one round-trip each weekday rush hour to and from Grand Central lay-up directly in front of the museum. These trains are spotted in a way that allows museum visitors to cross between the stopped trainsets. Features in the museum include the railyard local, short train rides that leave from near the historic depot and head out to the otherside of railyard to where an active turnable also offers visitors rides.
For full information see the Danbury Railroad Museum Website.
Photos 1-7: June 20, 2005; 8-70: November 23, 2013
Sign for the Danbury Railway Museum
Housatonic Railroad GP-35 Locomotive #3604 with #3601 go over the Main Street level-crossing in Danbury. The Crossing is hand-operated by the employee near the station building.
Housatonic Railroad GP-35 Locomotive #3604 and its train have cleared the level crossing
Housatonic Railroad GP-35 Locomotive #3604 and its train have cleared the level crossing; the employee is getting out to help uncouple #3604 from its helper #3601
Housatonic Railroad GP-35 Locomotive #3601 and its short train on the tracks near the Danbury Railroad Museum
Housatonic Railroad GP-35 Locomotive #3604 is being uncoupled from #3601.
Housatonic Railroad GP-35 Locomotive #3604 near the Danbury Railroad Museum
Approaching the railroad museum
P32AC-DM #210 stopped on the former Metro-North platform outside the historic station and railroad museum
Shoreliner #6317 and Brookfield BL20GH #114 at the pedestrian crossings to the Danbury Railroad museum collection
The Private railroad Crossing into the railyard and museum
Shoreliner #6317 and Brookfield Brookfield BL20GH #114 leading the shuttle trainset and another dual mode diesel electric train spending it's weekend in the Danbury Yard's balloon loop
P32AC-DM #210 spending its weekend at the Danbury Railway Museum, laying up on one of the rush hour dual-mode trainsets
Streetside of the historic union station, the freight track used by the Housatonic Railroad is in the distance
Getting off the Railyard Local in the museum
P42AC-DM #203 on the balloon loop around the Danbury Railroad museum on one of the four Danbury Branch peak-hour trainsets laying over in the yard
The Railyard local at its reversing point at the edge of the yard's and nearing the end of the balloon track around the yard
P32AC-DM #203 viewed from the museum's turntable
A conductor at the railway museum demonstrating the turntable turning
Last Updated:20 November, 2020
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