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The Minnesota Transportation Museum (MTM, reporting mark MNTX [1]) is a transportation museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. MTM operates several heritage transportation sites in Minnesota and one in Wisconsin. The museum is actively involved in preserving local railroad, bus, and streetcar history.
The museum was created as a result of the restructuring of the Minnesota Transportation Museum (MTM) during the winter of 2004–2005. The MTM was founded in 1962 to restore a streetcar, Twin City Rapid Transit Company No. 1300, that had been operated by the TCRT until the last streetcar lines were abandoned in favor of buses in 1954.
In 2014 and 2015, Union Depot hosted National Train Day events with various indoor displays and platform displays from the Minnesota Transportation Museum, Amtrak, BNSF and Friends of the 261. In 2016 the depot hosted its first "Union Depot Train Days" to celebrate the building's 90th Anniversary.
Jun. 18—The Minnesota Transportation Museum is expecting a late arrival a week or two from now — rolling in from the early 20th century. The A-18, a personal business rail coach of "Empire ...
Medina Railroad Museum; New York Museum of Transportation; New York Transit Museum; Railroad Museum of Long Island; Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum; Saratoga Corinth & Hudson Railway; Saratoga and North Creek Railway (Closed in April 2018) Trolley Museum of New York; Troy and New England Railway
The museum reopened on May 17, 2016, in their new location at 668 Transfer Road, Suite 8. The new location is just south of the former Amtrak Midway Depot along the Minnesota Commercial railyard. [5] The museum's most popular event is Night Trains® which began on November 30, 1996.
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A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]