We were touched by the story of The Merci Train and decided to find its train cars as we travel. The Vermont Merci Train Car is housed in the Vermont National Guard Museum and Library at Camp Johnson in Colchester, which is just a few miles from the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction.
Eric at the Vermont National
Guard Museum & Library
The Museum and Library are staffed by volunteers.
The Vermont Merci Car
Eric looks at exhibits housed
inside this small box car.
John, the Curator of the Museum, told me that the Vermont Merci Train Car is a popular exhibit. Visitors from as far away as Denmark have visited, just to see the this unique train car.
What else is there to see at the Vermont National Guard Museum?
Artifacts & Artwork from
the Revolutionary War.
The Museum's Civil War
Diorama, with cannon.
Eric poses as a
World War II Uniforms
The masked white uniform on the right is from a Vermont 10th Mountain Division Ski Troop member.
Captured German Army Field
from World War II.
The Korean War Exhibit
The Vietnam War Exhibit
Remembering Prisoners
of War & those who are
Missing in Action.
A Marine's Sniper outfit
used in Iraq War
in 2003.
Remembering Fort
Ethan Allen throughout
the years.....
Base memoribilia
The Vermont National
Guard Library
This crocheted American Flag
was donated to the Museum
by Elizabeth Benjamin Fleury.
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