Southern Appalachia Railway Museum is a railway museum

Railway museum

A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives , railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment.See List of railway museums...

 headquartered in Knoxville

Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, U.S.A., behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is the largest city in East Tennessee, and the second-largest city in the Appalachia region...

, Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

, United States.

The museum collects antique locomotives and rolling stock

Rolling stock

Rolling stock comprises all the vehicles that move on a railway. It usually includes both powered and unpowered vehicles, for example locomotives, railroad cars, coaches and wagons...

 to run on their 7 miles of track from the K-25

K-25

K-25 is a former uranium enrichment facility of the Manhattan Project which used the gaseous diffusion method. The plant is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on the southwestern end of the Oak Ridge Reservation.-History:...

 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about west of Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 27,387 at the 2000 census...

 to an interchange with Norfolk Southern at Blair, Tennessee

Blair, Tennessee

Blair is an unincorporated community in Roane County, Tennessee, United States.Blair is where the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum's railroad line connects with the Norfolk Southern railroad....

 and back. The museum runs a excursion train along this route using their rolling stock. This is the only public access to the K-25 facility. The ride runs over former Southern Railway trackage. The excursion train's name is the Secret City Scenic using Oak Ridge's nickname the "Secret City". The museum does an annual trip and railfan weekend. The excursion train typically runs on the first and third weekend of each month with the exception of special trains. When not running the Scenic a freight railroad uses the tracks with the Scenic sometimes using some of the engines. The museum is currently restoring a Southern EMD E8

EMD E8

The EMD E8 was a , A1A-A1A passenger train locomotive manufactured by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois. The cab version, or E8A, was manufactured from August, 1949 to December, 1953, and 449 were produced – 446 for U.S., and 3 for Canada...

 #6913. The museum's ticket office is an old guard station that has been restored.

In 2000, the reuse committee of the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee approved a lease of land to the museum for a visitor center, train depot and repair shop.

Engines

• Southern E8 #6913
• Wabash B905 Alco C-424
• U.S.A.E.C. 5310 1951 ALCO RS-1
• U.S. Army 7100 1943 ALCO S-2
• U.S. Army 7125 1943 ALCO S-2
• L&N 1315

Passenger Cars

• Central of Georgia coach no. 663 1947 ACF Coach
• Central of Georgia coach no. 664 1947 Budd Coach "Fort Oglethorpe"
• Central of Georgia coach no. 665 1947 Budd Coach "Fort McPherson"
• Southern Railway no. 34 1928 ACF RPO
• Southern Railway no. 543 1942 St.LCC Baggage Car
• Southern Railway no. 2206 1949 Pullman sleeper "Roanoke Valley"
• Southern Railway no. 3164 1926 Pullman dining car (on loan)

Freight Cars

• Kansas City Southern no. 3763 1938 ACF Bulkhead Flatcar
• Louisville & Nashville no. 6487 Caboose
• Oneida & Western no. 9990 Caboose (on loan)
• Savannah & Atlanta no. X253 Caboose
• Southern Railway no. X261 1973 Gantt Manuf. Caboose
• Speno no. SRBX-24 Boxcar, former Boston & Maine
• Tennessee Valley Authority Flatcar