Houston N'Crowd
2004 Galveston Island Railroad Museum Visit
Houston N'Crowd members regularly visit prototype venues for modeling ideas.
Photos by Ted Davis (unless he's in it!).

Galveston Island Railroad Museum 2004

Above:  N'Crowd visits the Galveston Island Railroad Museum.

Below:  The museum is housed in the former headquarters building/station of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway.
This model of the building is on the museum's HO scale model railroad.

Galveston Island Railroad Museum 2004

Galveston Island Railroad Museum 2004

Above and below:  More scenes from the museum's model railroad.

Galveston Island Railroad Museum 2004

Galveston Island Railroad Museum 2004

Galveston Island Railroad Museum 2004

Above:  A former SP Budd RDC.  This car operated on the West Coast.

Below:  A former SP EMD F-unit.  This locomotive saw service on the Texas Ltd. excursion train 
between Houston and Galveston

Galveston Island Railroad Museum 2004

Galveston Island Railroad Museum 2004

Above:  One of the museum's many displays.

Below:  The former station waiting room.

Galveston Island Railroad Museum 2004

Galveston Island Railroad Museum 2004

Above:  An SP 4-6-0.

Below:  View of the museum grounds.

Galveston Island Railroad Museum 2004