Rail Museum in the city has added another attraction to its fleet of exhibits with a 1964-built water column, that has come alive.
South Western Railway (SWR), with an intention to add more value to the museum, restored the steam-era water column to its full functional order. The water column is on display for the visitors.
The museum has several artefacts like a century-old 250-kg capacity mechanical weighing machine and Toy Train station which is incidentally a replica of stations built during the time of the Mysore State Railway (MSR).
The MSR was owned by the erstwhile Princely State of Mysore, headed by the Wadiyar kings. Wooden pedestals and ‘Coach cafeteria’, an old meter gauge coach converted into a restaurant, are a few to be named among the others.
