- November 26, 2024
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The Orlando and Northwestern Railway brought its Clinchfield No. 800 locomotive to the Central Florida Railroad Museum for the weekend of Sept. 14-16, parking the 1948 streamliner on the railroad tracks next to the museum. The museum was open all day Saturday.
Residents could check out the 70-year-old train, as well as a Seaboard GP-30, leased to the Orlando & Northwestern Railway from the Southern Appalachia Railway museum.
Neil Vagaus, general manager of Orlando and Northwestern Railway, dressed in a period train conductor costume to greet guests.
On Saturday evening, photographer Shannon Sikora held a workshop on night photography. Afterward, a group of photographers gathered near the trains for a photo shoot with two antique vehicles that were being shown at Winter Garden’s Cruz-In Car Show.
At 8 a.m. Sunday, the train whistle blew as the two engines made their way out of Winter Garden.