Model railroaders are building a model that will have a little train runing through a little model of Cookeville on one side and to a model of a limestone mine near Monterey on the other side. Other displays show the office as it would have been and show photos and a video of some of the men who used to work on the railroad. The Tennessee Central Railroad Museum will never be the centerpiece of anyone's vacation plans, but I enjoyed the hour that I spent there. There is still a very small amount of rail traffic through Cookeville, and it is industrial traffic that doesn't use the old depot. A few times a year, they run a dinner train that takes a small number of passengers to a nearby town and back.
Dinner is served on the train, and people enjoy the scenery and nostalgia.