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Visitor's Guide The Railroad Historical Center is undergo- ing a large scale renovation funded by pri- vate donations and grants from The City of Greenwood and The National Heritage Corridor. Contributions towards the site’s operating costs and for the restoration of the train cars at the Railroad Historical Center are welcomed. For more information or to make a contribution please contact The Museum and Railroad Historical Center. Visitor’s Please Request a Dedication Form: 906 South Main Street Guide P.O. Box 3131 Greenwood, SC 29648 864-229-7093 www.greenwoodmuseum.org www.greenwoodhistoryproject.org 2 House and Gardens11 Dedicate A GARDEN BRICK! $50 Established in 1970, The Railroad Originally built in 1906 for J.B Lakelands Historical Center is a non-profit Park, the house is a typical example subsidiary of the Museum in greenwood, Master of late Victorian architecture. The Gardeners south Carolina. it is committed to stone facade was added in 1926. collecting, Preserving and interpreting When the house was acquired by The Master the Railroad History of Greenwood and the Adams Family in the 1960’s it the surrounding communities. Gardener had been vacant for a number of Program is a years. project of the Clemson While the Adams family never took University up residence in the house, they Agricultural often used it, as well as the trains extension office. and gardens, for family get- togethers and as a public resource It trains for the preservation of Greenwood's individuals in the CONTENTS railroad history. skills necessary to develop and maintain all types 3 The garden was one of Angelle # 19 Steam Locomotive Adams’ passions and the great of gardens. 4 diversity and proliferation of the Participants are Interurban Car # 2102 plants is a testament to her work. expected to use their knowledge 5 Since 2005, the Lakelands Master Passenger Car # 831 Gardeners have been working and contribute diligently to reclaim the gardens volunteer service 6 Dining Car #746 and return them to their former in their community glory. after the program. 7 Sleeper Car #5 For more information “Carolina” Car 8 contact the local extension office at Caboose X-23 9 864-229-0000 Rail Equipment 10 House and Gardens 10 3 Rail Equipment #19 Steam Locomotive Women in The number 19 is a Baldwin Locomotive Works “Mikado” type Baldwin Railroading 2-8-2 steam locomotive and tender. Locomotive It was originally built in 1906 in Works While women did Philadelphia, PA, under the builder not traditionally number 29283. Baldwin started serve as engineers, almost by chance in conductors, Although originally constructed for 1831 when jeweler 1960’s Seaboard Coast Line Luggage Cart brakemen or the Woodward Iron Company of Matthias Baldwin was commissioned by firemen, they Birmingham, Alabama, it spent a the Philadelphia In addition to the rolling stock, the contributed good portion of its service life Museum to build a Railroad Historical Center houses a greatly to the traveling the South Carolina scale locomotive for number of pieces of historic industry. countryside with the Rockton and an exhibit. railroad equipment and collectibles. Rion Railroad. Mary I Riggins So successful was his design that by year’s developed the first It was purchased from Superior On display are 1960’s vintage end he was producing crossing gates in Quarries in 1969 as the first car in luggage moving carts, original full size steam the 1870’s. the Railroad Historical Center’s engines. The first benches, timetables, and several Elizabeth Murphy Collection. one, “old ironsides” smaller items recovered from is credited with remained in service depots around the region before for 20 years. over a dozen The SC Railroad Museum in they were abandoned or Winnsboro has the sister to this patents improving By 1928 Baldwin was demolished. axle lubrication. locomotive and visitors to Tweetsie the largest producer And Mary Walton Railroad in Boone, NC, can also of locomotives in the experience a ride aboard a similar United States, and invented a perhaps the world. smokestack Baldwin 2-8-2 (narrow gauge). emission cleaning For all its steam powered successes, system and a noise Baldwin did not fare dampening system well during the he for the above post-war shift to ground rail diesel power. systems being Production ceased in adopted across the 1956 after over 70,500 units. Timetable from the Southern Railroad depot use in the 1880’s. #19 at the Quarry yard. 4 9 Interurban # 2102 Caboose X-23 DEDICATE A CONDUCTOR SEAT! $1000 Dedicate A SEAT TODAy! $200 End of the This car was originally built by the Southern Line for the Southern Car Company for the Car CAboose Piedmont and Northern Railway in Company 1914 as a 2500 class steel trailer Other than the engine, car. In 1919 it was powered as an Started in 1904, the the caboose is perhaps interurban electric car . The 10- High Point, NC based the best known icon of foot express section was added in Southern Car American Railroading. Company produced 1924. The X -23 was originally The caboose’s primary street cars and purpose was to carry interurban electric rail constructed for the Piedmont and “Brakeman” whose This car saw service in both North cars. Northern Railway and was used and South Carolina during its regularly on trains in the South job was to run along the roof and manually lifetime and ran with the Carolina Division. apply the brakes to “Carolina” on the last P & N During its brief each car. passenger run from Greenwood to existence, the company It lost its bright red paint and The Westinghouse Air Spartanburg on October 31, 1951. produced several Piedmont and Northern Railway notable cars including Brake, developed in a series of double lettering when the P & N merged the 1940’s, and other Late in its career it was used as a decker trolley cars for with the Seaboard Coast Line innovations rendered buffer car and more interestingly Washington, DC and Railroad on July 1, 1969. this traditional role as an instructional car—a rolling the first all-steel street obsolete. cars for the city of classroom for railroad employees As technologies have New Orleans, LA. until the P & N’s merger with changed so have the Seaboard Coast Line in July of Brakeman’s duties. By the mid 1990’s the 1969. With new car orders need for caboose to waning in the years carry the Brakeman following the 1907 had been eliminated, stock market crash and commercial and the United States railroad began to entry into WWI phase out the use of looming on the the caboose. horizon, the company Today you will only closed its doors in A Santa Fe Railroad train stopped at Cajon 1916. Siding, California. The brakeman is standing find the caboose in atop the train during a stop to cool the train's railroad museums and braking equipment after descending Cajon Pass. on tourist train lines. Photograph by Jack Delano, courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division 8 5 “Carolina” Car Passenger Car # 831 Dedicate An Executive Suite! $2500 Piedmont Dedicate A SEAT TODAy! $250 and This seventy-six seat coach was Pullman Northern built for the Seaboard Airline Standard Railroad by Pullman Standard in Railway Company 1937. It is one of two cars The P & N was first preserved from the 830-835 series. The Pullman Palace proposed by William The sister car, # 833, is in Florida. Car Company was States Lee, Vice created by George The “Carolina” is a former office President of the Cars like this were the industry Pullman in 1867 to car for the Piedmont and Northern Southern Power and build luxury sleeper Utilities Company standard on most passenger rails. Railroad. It was built by the cars with unparalleled (Duke Energy) in 1909 These cars are still the preferred car customer service. Southern Car Company in 1914 as as an electrically on tourist and excursion trains. Pullman became a a parlor-observation car #2101 and powered system household name due to named “Saluda.” In the 1920’s it linking the major cities their dominance in the was rebuilt by the P & N as an of the piedmont of sleeping car market. North and South office car and renamed “Carolina.” Carolina. Pullman provided above average This car is typical of those used by By 1914 the company housing, pay and railroad executives, prominent had consolidated its benefits for many competition and assets politicians and wealthy employees. It was also into two divisions the nation’s largest individuals. The car has (northern and employer of African accommodations for three southern). The Americans. passengers as well as a parlor southern, included However, the space. Amenities included a 120 of the approximately 150 company system private service staff of two, and total miles of track. created what shower facilities with hot and cold amounted to debt water. Passenger service on slavery for many. the P & N continued Drastic wage cuts until 1951 and in 1969 prompted one of the the freight lines were nations largest strikes absorbed by the in 1898. Seaboard Coast Line. In 1944 the Pullman- Standard Company was broken up by federal anti-trust 1954 print advertisment for Atlantic Coast Line legislation. 6 7 Dining Car # 746 Sleeper Car #5 Dedicate A Table TODAy! $500 This car was originally built for the Railcar Dedicate A BED TODAy! $750 Southern Railway Company in the Restoration This sleeper was constructed for the 1920’s. After only a few months of Erie Railroad by Pullman Standard Pullman Projects service in South Carolina, it was in 1942. Originally named Porters determined that its lack of air The restoration and “American Liberty” when Beginning in 1867, just conditioning had already rendered it preservation of constructed, the car’s name was after the Civil War, obsolete for service in the South.
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