Image 1 used to reside on the corner of 4th and Scott
Image 2 is on the stairs of the Roebling Suspension Bridge
Image 3 was/is on the north side of the UpOver bar on Mainstrauss

Special Thanks to Jillian Kelly for these finds. Keep em coming.

Founded in 1975, the non-profit railway museum, located in the four-acre Latonia Yard, has a permanent collection of 37 pieces of historic equipment from the seven railroads entering Cincinnati.

So says Building Cincinnati, in a post about May’s Covington After Hours, about the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati.

I’ve probably driven down Decoursey Ave. in Latonia about a thousand times, so I’m fairly familiar.  I know about Johnny’s Toys and the now-vacant Value City store.  But I never knew there was a whole museum dedicated to trains hidden back there!

After a bit more digging, I turned up an old Cincinnati Post story (on the Wayback Machine) on the museum.

Some people never stop playing with trains.

Take 84-year-old Bill Ewing of Anderson Township, whose ”toy” is a real, bright yellow B&O Railroad caboose, for which he paid $2,500 15 years ago.

He keeps it in the rail yard of the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati, in Covington’s Latonia neighborhood, where he and other volunteers work on the museum’s 80-piece collection every Wednesday and Saturday.

… In the rail yard, each car has a unique story, and Ewing is eager to tell them.

A tiny green engine with a No. 1 on its face used to push coal into a power house, he said.

He helped paint a dark green passenger car, which he said was at least 75 years old. ”It’s priceless,” he said.

A red passenger car, which had two master bedrooms and a shower, was one of four end cars for the Broadway Limited in New York, volunteer Bill Williams said.

See previous coverage of the Spaceship House.

It’s dedicated exclusively to these houses, and includes a news report video that Channel 12 once did on our Covington, KY, spaceship. There’s also a global tracking list of these houses (scroll down to Kentucky for a mention of MakeCincinnatiWeird.com).

It’s a statue of James Bradley, a slave turned educator and Underground Railroad conductor.

He fools me everytime I walk down there. In the wintertime, someone usually puts a scarf around his neck and a hat on his head to keep him warm. In the springtime, when everyone is still paying attention to the Reds, you may find him with a Reds cap on his head and a pennant in his hand. I have yet to see any Bengals gear on him, I guess because there usually isn’t any reason for him to cheer.