Plans for an Oak Ridge railroad museum are in doubt after officials announced that bids for the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum building came in higher than expected, at nearly $1 million. Members of the railway museum organization, said the facility had a planned maximum cost of $860,000.
Most of that funding was awarded more than 10 years ago to the city of Oak Ridge as a state grant of $460,000. City Manager Mark Watson said the grant money will now go back to the state.