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A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
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Railroad museums in the United States by state or territory (44 C) S. Street railway museums in the United States (25 P) Pages in category "Railroad museums in the ...
San Jose Steam Railroad Museum (Proposed) San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum; Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway; Sierra Railroad; Sonoma TrainTown Railroad; Southern California Railway Museum (Formerly known as the Orange Empire Railway Museum from 1956 to 2018) Western Pacific Railroad Museum; Western Railway Museum; Yosemite Mountain ...
The National Railroad Museum (reporting mark NRMX) [2] is a railroad museum located in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, US. Founded in 1956 by community volunteers, the National Railroad Museum is one of the oldest and largest U.S. institutions dedicated to preserving and interpreting the nation's railroad [3] history. Two years later, a joint ...
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]
The Illinois Railway Museum (IRM, reporting mark IRMX) is the largest railroad museum in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located in the Chicago metropolitan area at 7000 Olson Road in Union, Illinois , 55 miles (89 km) northwest of downtown Chicago .
This is a list of preserved locomotives in the United States, organized by state then city or town of their last-known locations. It is intended to list all locomotives that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage registers, or that are preserved and displayed or stored or operated at museums or heritage railways .