DULUTH, Ga. – For more than four decades, the Southeastern Railway Museum has been dedicated to the preservation of Georgia Railroad’s History.
“Georgia’s Official Transportation History Museum” first opened on a 12-acre site in Duluth donated by Southern Railway. The museum remained at that location until 1997, it moved just down the … tracks – literally.
That year, the museum accepted a donation of roughly 30 acres from Frank M. Ewing of Chevy Chase, Md. The site, previously used by J. J. Finnigan Railcar Co. for metal fabrication and repairs, was about one mile from the museum’s then current home.
Over the years, the museum has been the beneficiary of dozens of pieces of rolling stock and locomotives. When open, the museum offers trips around its grounds and information for self-guided tours of its buildings.
Georgia Railroad 1026, an EMD GP7, is one of the locomotives that pulls trains around the museum. The museum’s railroad exhibits include a number of passenger cars, maintenance-of-way equipment, cabooses and freight cars. In addition to the railroad exhibits, a number of historic buses also reside at the museum.
The former Duluth railroad depot was relocated to the museum in August 2008.
For more information, visit http://www.srmduluth.org/.
