The Donegal Railway Museum is located in the former Donegal railway station, which was closed in the 1960’s.
These are authentic railway cars, cars #15 and #16, which were sold and used as mobile homes when the railway was decommissioned. Later, when the museum opened, they bought back the railway cars and refurbished them. Now they rent them out for business meetings.
Very neat to walk through them!
A train planter…too cute!
A local man donated this model train layout, as well as many paintings of trains, to the museum. It brought back happy childhood memories of my Grandpa’s train layout in his basement. We spent many hours down there with him.
Lots of memorabilia from the original train routes through County Donegal.
Some fun activities for the little kids, too.
My favorite was all the old photos. Many thanks to the man who worked at the desk (I did not ask his name!) who was a wealth of information and answered all our questions, not just about trains but also about local history. We learned a lot!
Brogans Across the Pond 
So colorful. Train travel seems romantic, biding your time as the world goes by to the crickets clack rhythm. The joke was that you showed up whenever and just waited for a train in Ireland. They had a schedule, but no one paid any attention to it. I wonder if that was true…
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Quite possible!
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