Clinchfield train visits Winter Garden

West Orange Times & Observer
Neighborhood

The Orlando and Northwestern Railway brought its Clinchfield No. 800 locomotive to the Central Florida Railroad Museum for the weekend of Sept. 14-16, parking the 1948 streamliner on the railroad tracks next to the museum. The museum was open all day Saturday.

Residents could check out the 70-year-old train, as well as a Seaboard GP-30, leased to the Orlando & Northwestern Railway from the Southern Appalachia Railway museum.

Neil Vagaus, general manager of Orlando and Northwestern Railway, dressed in a period train conductor costume to greet guests.

On Saturday evening, photographer Shannon Sikora held a workshop on night photography. Afterward, a group of photographers gathered near the trains for a photo shoot with two antique vehicles that were being shown at Winter Garden’s Cruz-In Car Show.

At 8 a.m. Sunday, the train whistle blew as the two engines made their way out of Winter Garden.

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Amy Quesinberry

Community Editor Amy Quesinberry was born at the old West Orange Memorial Hospital and raised in Winter Garden. Aside from earning her journalism degree from the University of Georgia, she hasn’t strayed too far from her hometown and her three-mile bubble. She grew up reading The Winter Garden Times and knew in the eighth grade she wanted to write for her community newspaper. She has been part of the writing and editing team since 1990.