Train Museums that you've been to

[robbiehanson]

Museums...hmm, let's see.

Museum of Transport - St. Louis MO - I live two miles from it. Been there a LOT.

(And these are only the ones I can remember...)

Cumbres & Toltec
Durango & Silverton
Colorado RR Museum
Georgetown Loop
Leadville, Colorado, & Southern(did not ride)
Royal Gorge Railroad(did not ride)
Ridgway Railroad Museum
Orange Empire Railroad Museum
Illinois Railway Museum
Monticello Railway Museum
St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern(rode the last run of their steam loco)
Stone Mountain Scenic (back when the diesel pushed the steamer...)
Golden Spike Historic Site
Ogden, Utah Union Station
Nevada Railroad Museum
California State Railroad Museum
Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad(CAB RIDE IN A NARROW GAUGE SHAY!)
Western Maryland Scenic Railroad(cab ride in the 734!)
Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad And Museum
B&O Museum (probably ten years ago or more)
Casey Jones Museum(the one whose location I forget, and the one in Mississippi)
Tennessee Valley Railroad(Alco...mmm)
Grand Canyon(did not ride)
New York Central Railroad Museum
Huckleberry Railroad
Black Hills Central(did not ride)
Omaha Zoo Railroad(hey, it's 30" gauge, it counts, right?)
North Platte, Nebraska(railroad interest stuff? it counts?)
Cowan Railroad Museum(Cowan, Tennessee)
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Strasburg Railroad
Steamtown
Forney Museum(Denver, old location)
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
Galesburg Railway Museum
Kentucky Railway Museum(4-6-2 and BL2 ride in the same day...oh yeah!)
Atchison Railroad Museum(Kansas)
Heber Valley Railroad(did not ride)
Fall River Railroad Museum
Durham Western Heritage Museum(Omaha)
Lake Superior Transportation Museum(Duluth)
Nevada Northern Railroad(Ely, Nevada--did not ride)
Nickel Plate Railroad Museum(Ohio)
Railroaders Memorial Museum
Mid-Continent Railroad Museum
Fennimore Historical Society Museum
National Railway Museum in Green Bay
Threshers Reunion Railroad in Iowa(loooooong time ago)
Camped by and explored Como, Colorado roundhouse
Drove to the Alpine Tunnel
Drove over Boreas Pass by car

Strangely enough, I've never seen the East Broad Top or the Roaring Camp and Big Trees...and I passed TEN MILES from the Hesston Steam Museum last year and didn't realize it. Also want to go back to Maine and cover some railroads there, ride the White Mountains Central in New Hampshire, ride the Mount Washington Cog under steam...argh, so much to do! I've still covered a pretty good amount of railroading sites though.

- Chased UP 844 through Missouri and Illinois
- Chased UP 3985 TWICE
- Chased Cumbres & Toltec Scenic twice
- Rode one of the last trains hauled by C&TS number 497 before its temporary retirement
- First narrow gauge engine ridden behind was the C&TS number 463
- Chased some standard gauge logging lines in Washington state
- Drove the entire Sherman Hill Union Pacific route
- Explored Pagosa Junction, Colorado, a well-preserved D&RGW station stop
- Drove entire Rio Grande Southern route THREE TIMES in an attempt to find landmarks
- Camped on Lizard Head Pass several times

I'm just a helpless railroad addict!

EDIT: Since everyone put these...

Horseshoe Curve...TWICE.

Gallitzin Tunnel--two hours and no trains.
Smithsonian.
Gettysburg Railroad(rode by steam a few months before the boiler explosion....)
Whitewater Valley Railroad
Henry Ford Museum(twice)

 

[Pencil42]

Museums:
B&O Railroad Museum - Baltimore, MD
California State Railroad Museum - Old Sacramento, CA
Camp 6 Logging Museum - Tacoma, WA
Colorado Railroad Museum - Golden, CO
Gold Spike National Historic Site - Promontory, UT
Jackson Street Roundhouse - St. Paul, MN
Minnehaha Depot - Minnehaha Falls, MN
National Museum of Transport - Kirkwood, MO
National Railroad Museum - Green Bay, WI
Nevada State Railroad Museum - Carson City, NV
Railroad Museum of Pensylvania - Strasburg, PA
Railtown 1897 - Jamestown, CA
Smithsonian National Museum of American History - Washington, DC
Union Pacific Museum - Council Bluffs, IO
Union Station - Ogden, UT
Western Pacific Railroad Museum - Portola, CA

Tourist railroads:
Heber Valley Railroad - Heber City, UT
Mount Hood Railroad - Hood River, OR
Oregon Coast Railroad - Tillamook, OR
Portland Zoo Railroad (another 30" railroad)
Virginia & Truckee - Virginia City, NV


Historical rail sites:
Abandoned trolley line - College Park, MD (may now be part of the College Park Trolley Trail, but I'm unsure - I was *young* at the time)
Bandana Square - St. Paul, MN (old railroad shops, converted to office space)
Brown's Camp - Tillimook, OR (built over old logging RR grades; some trestle bents still remaining)
Cheyenne Depot - Cheyenne, WY
Golden Spike Tower - North Platte, NE
Rio Grande Depot - Salt Lake City, UT
Trolley Square - Salt Lake City, UT (old trolley barns, converted to shopping mall)
V&T railroad grade - all except Mound House to Gold Hill

 

[K4driver]

active RR One or Two don't exsist anymore)
1.Western Maryland senic RR(SG
2.East Broad Top RR(NG)(Favorite Preserved NG rr)
3. The Durango and silverton RR(NG)
4. The cumbres and Toltec RR(NG)
5. Lural Highlands senic railroad(Don't exsist)(SG)
6. Strasburg(SG)
7.Cass Senic RR(SG)
Museums
8.The B&O museum
9. THe Colorado railroad museum
10. Altoona Railroaders museum
11.Steamtown
12. Horseshoe Curve (favorite hang out)
13. Tunnel Hill
14.The RR museum of PA

 

[illinoiscentral]

I personaly think all museums are great because most are all volunteer and I myself have had the priviledge to volunteer at the Monticello Railway Museum in Monticello Illinois. Restoration is a huge undertaking and sometimes the funds just are not there. By the way I encouage all of you to visit MRM soon!