The Emery Rail Heritage Trust has announced the 19 recipients of their 2023 grants:
- Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad Association: $ 15,000.00 to help refurbish their C&NW passenger car.
- Danbury Railway Museum: $ 12,000.00 to aid in rebuilding the engines of their 1953 New Haven Budd car.
- East Troy Railroad Museum: $ 10,000.00 for work on their CSS&SB car #107.
- Friends of the SP4449: $ 10,000.00 of their Shasta SP 2395 coach.
- Illinois Railway Museum: $ 10,000.00 for electrical and air brake workon their Milwaukee coach 649.
- Michigan State Trust for Railway Preservation: $ 1,000.00 to help start work on their C&NW steam locomotive #175.
- Mid-Continent Railway Museum: $ 10,000.00 for continued work on the DSS&A sleeping car Duluth.
- Nashville Steam Preservation Society: $ 15,000.00 to help refurbish the crossheads, guides and one wrist pin on the steam locomotive NC&StL #576.
- National Railway Museum: $ 8,500.00 to update their ex-Reading car Josephine.
- Pacific Locomotive Association: $ 31,000.00 for purchasing staybolts for use on the SP steam engine #1744.
- Pacific Railroad Preservation Association: $ 10,500.00 for replacement of three blowdowns for the SP&S steam locomotive #700.
- Railroaders Memorial Museum: $ 11,000.00 for work on the PRR observation car Mountain View, once used on the Broadway Limited.
- Railroad Heritage of Midwest America: $ 25,000.00 for a HEP generator to power their UP coaches at Silvis, Illinois.
- Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum: $ 11,500.00 for structural repairs to their Erie Stillwell coach #2103.
- Southern Michigan Railroad Society: $ 10,000.00 for work on their heavyweight Pullman Emerald Vale.
- Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration: $ 15,000.00 toward their Sumpter Valley Railway steam locomotive #19.
- Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum: $ 20,000,00 for work on their dining car #899.
- United Railroad Historical Society: $ 14,500.00 toward replacing the generator on their ex-NYC Hickory Creek observation car.
- Watauga Valley Railroad Historical Society and Museum: $ 10,000.00 for truck repair on the ex-Clinchfield Railroad office car #100.
The trust is the largest in the U.S. that gives solely to railroad related projects. They focus on projects the preserve the history of passenger travel from 1920 to 1960.
Learn more about the trust on their website: https://emeryrailheritagetrust.org/