The Danbury Railway Museum is a railway museum housed in the former Union Station on the east end of downtown Danbury, Connecticut, United States. It was established in the mid-1990s following the closure of the station by the Metro-North Railroad in favor of a new station nearby, and primarily focuses on the history of railroading in southern New England and neighboring New York. In addition to the former station building, the museum has a collection of heritage railcars in the neighboring rail yard it shares with Metro-North.
Danbury Railway Museum
Railway Turntable in October 2016
Model train layout showing station and rail yard in the 1950s.
Four diesel locomotives lined up at the historic rail yard
Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, located approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of New York City. Danbury's population as of 2020 was 86,518. It is the third-largest city in Western Connecticut, and the seventh-largest city in Connecticut.
Lithograph of Danbury from a drawing by L. R. Burleigh with list of landmarks
Kohanza Reservoir disaster, January 31, 1869; the dam was breached, releasing a flood on the town.
"Scene of the Disaster at Danbury", January 31, 1869
Downtown Main Street scene, c. 1907
