Railroad Museum opening derailed

The anticipated reopening of Old Town Cameron and the Milam County Railroad Museum is being postponed yet again due to the growing number of Coronavirus cases in Milam and our surrounding counties. The Museum had been slated to reopen on Saturdays beginning Nov. 7.

Museum director Jamie Larson explained, “We just don’t have enough space around the Old Town Cameron model to get even a few people in and still be able to safely distance everyone.  When the numbers were going down, we could have probably made it work but all of our volunteers including myself are over 65 years of age. Our community and our visitor’s health is the most important thing right now.”

In the meantime, the Railroad Museum staff is continuing digitizing and cataloguing their historic train locomotive photograph collection. They are also making plans for their move to the Juvenile Probation offices when the new County offices are completed in the old hospital facility.  The new site for the Railroad museum will be next door to the Milam County Historic Museum. 

The Milam County Railroad Museum is continuing to post railroading information on their website, www.mcrm-otc.org. There are links that take you to railroad museums around the State of Texas.  If you are interested in the model railroading hobby, you can find “how-too” links.  There are also railroad themed coloring pages you can download for the kids to color.  You can also see what’s going on behind the scenes on their Old Town Cameron Facebook page.