My name is Morris Gould. I'm the Executive Director here at the Galveston Railroad Museum. This was an active railroad passenger station up until April of 1967 when the last passenger train departed.

The foundation went out and acquired a number of pieces of rolling stock. The museum has, approaches 50 pieces of rolling stock, passenger equipment, freight equipment, locomotives, cabooses.

Hurricane Ike's damages depending on the location at the property 8-11 foot of water.

This is the Anacapa. This is our prized palace car. A number of presidents have been on this car. Truman, Eisenhower, President George W. Bush in the 80's.

This car, it was completely self contained. You could live on it. It had it's own air conditioning, heating, water system. It sustained tremendous amount of flooding damage. We did suffer wind damage from the hundred mile an hour winds, but it was the sustained salt water flooding that created most of our problems.

OK. We're standing in the main waiting room of the original Union Station. This building sustained over 8 feet of flood water for a number of hours. The museum used this space for weddings, parties, receptions, a number of events. This room generated about 40-45 percent of the museum's income. I think we had 17 display cases in this building, that we lost all, all of that.

You know, we're just, I don't know what much more to go from there. Waiting for funds to restore this place, to renovate it. Bring it back.

Our attendance since I've been director of the museum steadily increased and we were approaching the 40 thousand visitors per year just prior to Hurricane Ike's landfall of September of '08.

It took time for us to grasp exactly the detail that FEMA wanted on the description of repairing, replacing, or doing the actual work. It took us a while to understand exactly what they were asking for. Once we got in that frame of mind it became a lot easier working with the representatives on the damage repairs of the museum.