I forgot to mention some of the special activities that are available as part of your visit to the Savannah Roundhouse. My wife took the guided tour of a couple of private cars while I was back in the shops, looking at cars being restored and Birney bodies. And you can also spend time pumping a handcar back and forth on a disconnected length of track, although that didn't appeal so much to people our age. Anyway, here are some of her pictures of the well-kept interiors:
This is Harris, the tour guide, who I think was also the engineer on the train:
The blankets have the C of G emblem sewn in.
All the comforts of home:
And for depot preservation, we have the old wooden station for the Tybee Island branch line. This building was located in downtown Savannah, where the branch line trains started, and when that line was abandoned the depot was moved to a park where it now serves as the entrance and gift shop for Old Fort Jackson. I don't know whether this unusual shape was used elsewhere in the area.
(Behind it, above, a huge cargo ship piled high with containers was moving up the river.)
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