A sign and a marker for “Stonewall” Jackson’s Great Train Raid of 1861 are at the Strasburg Museum in Strasburg, Virginia. (see map below) A wayside marker on Civil War Strasburg – Strategic Intersection is also on the east side of the museum.
The Strasburg Museum building was built in the 1890s and served as a pottery factory and the town’s train station.
From the sign:
Jackson captured engines from Martinsburg, W.VA.
and had them pulled by horse teams across the
roads to Strasburg, near here, they were set on
rails and sent south for the Confederate cause.
The Great Train Raid sign is above one of the museum’s doors on the north side.
The marker for The Great Train Raid is east of the Museum next to a wayside marker on Civil War Strasburg – Strategic Intersection
From the marker:
Great Train Raid
Reenactment May 29, 2011
This image, entitled Heavy Traffic on the Valley Pike, is the third in a series of paintings by renowned historical artist Mort Kunstler, depicting the arrival in Strasburg of disassembled locomotives seized by Confederate forces under Col. Thomas J. (later “Stonewall”) Jackson in the spring of 1861 (see adjacent marker). Thousands of onlookers witnessed this once-only renenactment of one of the most fascinatng episodes of the Civil War. Years in the planning, the event featured a nearly full-sized replica of the #208 “Dutch Wagon” engine captured at Martinsburg, built by retired welder Conly Crabill of Strasburg. It is now on display here at the Strasburg Museum.
The marker for The Great Train Raid
Location
The Museum, wayside marker and signs are on the east side of Strasburg, Virginia on the south side of King Street (Virginia Route 55) about 900 feet east of the intersection with Massanutton Street (U.S. 11). (38°59’14.9″N 78°21’20.3″W)