The Cotton Museum

The Cotton Museum, located in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, is a historical and cultural museum opened in March 2006 on the former trading floor of the Memphis Cotton Exchange at 65 Union Avenue in downtown Memphis.The mission of the Cotton Museum is to share the story of the cotton industry and the many influences on daily life, art, and the development of the Mid-South region. The museum highlights objects through interpretive exhibits, educational programs and research archives that help tell the story of cotton and cotton trade, the harvest to be fabric.The Cotton Museum preserves the history of the cotton business and its impact on economics, history, society and culture, and science and technology. The museum exhibits are suitable for trips for middle school students and older, and provide the context for other visitor attractions in the city.

Osaka Maritime Museum

The Osaka Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Osaka, Japan. It was opened by the Mayor of Osaka City on July 14, 2000 have started on site in March 1998. Designed by architect Paul Andreu in Engineering Design and Arup Tohata.The museum was built on reclaimed land in Osaka Bay at a cost of 12.8bn yen, with a replica Edo Period trading ship, the Naniwa Maru in the center. The requirement of the dome to seismic, wave and wind loads and the successful completion, led to the building winning a structural Special Award in 2002 from the Institution of Structural Engineers resist UK.Osaka City wanted a museum that maritime reflected development history of the port. She planned to be placed on reclaimed land in Osaka Bay, where a number of office systems and a convention center was built to create a building to sign
people from the center. When approaching Paul Andreu he preliminary sketches show a dome, and suggested that the museum should be placed in the water itself and as a 300,000 sqm pool had to be excavated from the land reclamation with a spherical
dome seems to float in the bay, reached by a tunnel under water.Andreu, based on the dome of a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome. Arup was responsible for the design of structural, mechanical,electrical and seismic technical solutions for the dome and the internal structure within the exhibitions, while the Japanese company had Tohata
responsible for the engineering of the building entrance, the tunnel under water and the dome base.

With a site consisting of 25 m of reclaimed land on the top 15 m of alluvial clay, piles were designed to be 40 m long. To prevent the building sinking into the ground like an earthquake causes liquefaction of the ground, the top 10 m of the piles designed as precast concrete piles with steel tubes. To prevent the building rises due to buoyancy of the piles were cast with a floor plate from 1.6 to 2.5 m thick enough to weight.The hemisphere landside building contains a ticket office, hall and administrative offices, with storage and plant space in two underground floors below. From the hall, visitors descend to the sunken tunnel in glass risers. The tunnel is made of reinforced concrete and is 15 m wide and 60 m long, but the shortest distance from the dome to the coast is 15 m.The final design was for a 20,000 m2 building, which consists of a 5,000 m2 land side entrance building, the 60m underwater tunnel of 1,000 m2, opening in the dome, four levels totaling 14,000 m2 locked.

Sydney Tramway Museum

The Sydney Tramway Museum is an active streetcar museum located in Loftus in the southern suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Sydney Tramway Museum is the trade name of the South Pacific Electric Railway (blocking). The museum was officially opened in its original position on the edge of the Royal National Park by NSW Deputy Premier Pat Hills in 1965. It moved to a larger location on the Princes Highway, which opened on March 19, 1988. Prior to the opening of the new site of the museum was the tram at both locations.

The museum has an extensive collection of trams from Sydney and cities in Australia and around the world. There are two tram lines of
The museum used to run the tram rides to museum visitors. A line runs 1.5 miles north almost to Sutherland Station, a parallel suburban
highway in a manner typical of previous tram from Sydney. The second uses a former railway branch line to Illawarra's city rail
2 km to enter the Royal National Park, which borders southern flanks of Sydney. Some of the suburbs of Sydney electric train services used to terminate Royal National Park, but the line closed in 1991, and Waterfall is now the southern terminus of suburban electric train services on the Illawarra line.

The Sydney Tram Museum is run entirely by volunteers and self-finance its daily operations, restoration and construction programs of the port companies and donations from the public.

Museum of Trade Ceramics

Located in a traditional house, this museum traces the origins of Hoi An as a trading port and provides the most prominent trade item. Objects from the 13th to 17th centuries and include Chinese and Thai works.

While many of the exhibits are in fragments, the real beauty of the place is that the very detailed descriptions are in English, giving you a real sense of the origins of the city and its history. also
the architecture and the renovation of the old house are thoroughly explained, and you are free to wander through the two floors, courtyard, and front room. After all the explanations distributed to other historic houses, you'll finally have a sense of what Hoi An architecture is all about.

Rutland Railway Museum

Rutland Railway Museum is now trading under the name Rocks By train: The Living Ironstone Museum is a heritage railway on part of a former Midland Railway mineral branch line. It is located NE of Oakham, in Rutland, England. The branch line connected to the main Oakham to Melton Mowbray in Ashwell Station. Exchange sidings were once located at the museum for three separate private quarry railway systems associated with Past mining of iron ore. The museum site is known locally as Cottesmore Iron Ore Mines Sidings.

The museum aims to collect and display industrial locomotives and wagons and similar minerals from iron ore mines. They also face shovel

and dumpers used in a quarry. The cab of the dragline excavator huge Sundew is exhibited.

The museum operates trains on a 0.75 miles (1.21 km) length of the track and covers an area of ​​nearly 7 acres (28,000 m²).

wagons

The museum has a wide selection of cars used for demonstrations on open days. Details are below.

Open Wooden Wagon rake

This rake is currently not operational.

Stanton Ironworks Co. 4 strips 624 wagon.
Stanton Iron Works Co. 5-plank wagon 818.
Stanton Iron Works Co. 5-plank wagon 849.
Stanton Iron Works Co. 5-plank wagon 860.
Stewarts and Lloyds four strips wagon 3046.
Stewarts and Lloyds four strips wagon 3153.

Hopper Wagon Train

This rake is available for use and can be seen in operation.

LMS Iron Ore Hopper Wagon M691079.
LMS Iron Ore Hopper Wagon M691193.
LMS Iron Ore Hopper Wagon M691448.
LMS Iron Ore Hopper Wagon M691595.
LMS Iron Ore Hopper Wagon M691982.
Appleby-Frodingham Iron Ore Hopper Wagon P210000.
Sheep Bridge Iron and Steel Co. Hopper Wagon 8251.
Steel Hopper Wagon private owner Mineral P15675.