Foley, AL RR Museum-Engineers View

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Located in the old L & N Railroad Depot is Foley's Museum Archives. The first depot was built in 1905 when Mr. John B. Foley of Chicago used some of his own money to bring the railroad to the southern part of Baldwin County. This first depot burned to the ground, and a second station took its place in 1908. The railroad line was a spur from Bay Minette and ended approximately a mile south of Foley. At that end, there was a wye when the train could turn around.

The depot and the railroad became the center of activity for the growing town of Foley. At this time, the area was primarily agricultural so the railroad was vital to getting the produce to market. During "shipping" season, thousands of boxcars would pull out of Foley loaded with potatoes, corn, gladiolas, and many other types of produce that was grown in the area.

In 1971, the L & N Railroad discontinued their services to Foley. It was the intention of the company to tear down the depot. However, John Snook, owner of Gulf Telephone Company, bought the building for one dollar.
He then moved the whole building to Magnolia Springs, a small community five miles West of Foley. For 24 years, Mr. Snook used the building as a warehouse for the phone company before deeding it to the City of Foley. In 1995, the depot was returned to Foley and placed back in its original location.

The City has since turned the depot into a museum. Here, you will find pictures and artifacts that depict the culture of South Baldwin County, especially the City of Foley.

The Museum is open Monday through Friday
from 10am - 4pm.
However the o-scale trains run Tuesdays,Thursdays,and Saturdays
from 10am-2pm

Admission is free. Come by and visit us so you can step back in time to the "good ole days."

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• FOLEY
• AL
• RAILROAD
• MUSEUM

[TrainmanKight]

@puredodee

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY

were open Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays From 10Am-2Pm

If your in the area again stop by at those times and we'll be running the trains.

I'm currently working on a new promotional video for the museum and will upload a preview in the next few weeks.

[puredodee]

Fantastic!!! We holiday every year from England and stay at Pensacola Beach, this time on our annual trip to Foley Tanger Outlet, I left my wife shopping and stumbled upon your museum. The model railroad was closed but the lady working that day took me in to see it. She explained a little about it and whilst it wasn't working it blew me away!! Great to see it all working and to get the train-eye view and a thanks again to the lady in the museum.

[TrainmanKight]

yah that was a museum train and if u saw the whole vid

at 10:48 u see the train

thanks for commenting

[MarkConductor775]

I liked it. What I really meant to say, what is the train pushing the camera throughout the video?

[TrainmanKight]

THANKS

well that train at the "beginning" was one of the museums train all it was-was a car (with my cam) i pushed the car to see if it could get through the tunnel then when i pushed it back to couple it to the units it got away from me all it was was a little bump into the cars

but hey if its worth doing it worth over doing it right

i added a coupld effects and cut them together to meak it look like the cam broke

hoped u liked it

thanks for commenting

if ur ever in the area stop by

[MarkConductor775]

What and who's train had was that at the beginning? Nice horn on that sucker!