RAILFAN GUIDES HOME Outside Signals Tower 17 Inside Signal Stuff on Display The coach "Quebec" Other Stuff NEW 2/21/2007
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Location / Name:
Rosenburg TX, Fort Bend County
What's Here:
the Rosenberg Railroad Museum
Tower 17
BNSF and a small yard
Data:
GPS Coordinates: 29.560497, -95.807502
Phone A/C: 281/832
ZIP: 77471
Access by train/transit:
None
The Scoop:
This museum is great. if you are a signal fan, you have to stop here if you are anywhere near the Houston area. The
director of the museum informed me that they are concentrating on signals, and what they have to offer the signal fan proves it. They are constantly on the look-out
for additional signals to add to their collection.
When I visited them in the spring of 2007, they were planning on opening to the public that summer. They were hoping to have the CTC panel "working" and
the semaphores in the yard will be connected to it. I hope they met and exceeded their expectations.
Acknowledgements:
none yet
Websites and other additional information sources of interest for the area:
http://www.rosenbergrrmuseum.org/
the official Rosenberg RR
Museum website
https://www.facebook.com/rosenbergRRmuseum
https://www.yelp.com/biz/rosenberg-railroad-museum-rosenberg
Getting here is pretty easy if you are coming in from Houston... just get on US 59/ I-69 and head southwest.
Get off at the exit for Rosenberg/Needville and state road 36.
The exit is about 26 miles from I-610, and ~18mi from 8/the Sam Houston.
There is no exit number, as of yet.
Take the access road to 1st Street and take a right. There are a lot of restaurants in this area too, BTW.
Go north 1.75 miles to Avenue H and take a right.
Go one block and take a left onto 2nd St.
In two blocks, take a right onto Avenue F, and look for a parking place on the left side of the street adjacent to the museum.
The entrance is down at the yellow arrow.
Additional searchlight signals waiting to go up.
A US&S lower quadrant indicator.
A position type signal indicator, mimicking the action of a semaphore.
A US&S upper quadrant indicator and optional rock guard.
Something you don't see everyday, a can of 2A semaphore oil.
Couple of semaphore spectacles and blades.
A typical info card, this one explaining the focal length of lenses.
General inside views.
A few inside shots showing the restoration work going on to restore the coach to it's former glory. When they brought the car down from Canada, it had been most
recently used as general storage on someone's farm, and most of the inside had been totally ruined.
The water tower is brand new and it's construction cost was donated by an area resident!
Disclaimers:
I love trains, and I love signals. I am not an expert. My webpages reflect what I find on the topic of the page. This is something I have fun with while
trying to help others.
Please Note: Since the main focus of my two websites is railroad signals, the railfan guides are oriented towards the signal fan being able to locate them.
For those of you into the modeling aspect of our hobby, myindexa page has a list of almost everything railroad oriented
I can think of to provide you with at least a few pictures to help you detail your pike.
If this is a railfan page, every effort has been made to make sure that the information contained on this map and in this railfan guide is correct. Once in a while,
an error may creep in :-)
My philosophy: Pictures and maps are worth a thousand words, especially for railfanning. Text descriptions only get you so far, especially if you get lost or
disoriented. Take along good maps.... a GPS is OK to get somewhere, but maps are still better if you get lost! I belong to AAA, which allows you to get
local maps for free when you visit the local branches. ADC puts out a nice series of county maps for the Washington DC area, but their state maps do not have the
railroads on them. If you can find em, I like the National Geographic map book of the U.S..... good, clear, and concise graphics, and they do a really good job
of showing you where tourist type attractions are, although they too lack the railroads. Other notes about specific areas will show up on that page if known.
Aerial shots were taken from either Google Maps or www.bing.com/maps as noted. Screen captures are made
with Snagit, a Techsmith product... a great tool if you have never used it!
By the way, floobydust is a term I picked up 30-40 years ago from a National Semiconductor data book, and means miscellaneous
and/or other stuff.
Pictures and additional information is always needed if anyone feels inclined to take 'em, send 'em, and share 'em, or if you have something to add or correct.... credit
is always given! Please be NICE!!! Contact info is here
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21-Aug-2017