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National Railroad Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The National Railroad Museum, located in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin (a suburb of Green Bay), is one of the oldest museums dedicated to railroad history. Today, the National Railroad Museum is home to one of the United States' most historic railroad collections. Chinese-built 2-8-0 on display at the National Railroad Museum on April 26, 2004. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Railroad_Museum   (238 words)

Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum Education Railroads needed better engineering of bridges and roadbeds, stronger rails, better methods for communicating, improved ways to control trains, and safer brakes and couplers.hese last two were especially important to railroad safety and are good examples of how long it took to get a good idea to be used. Railroads were so important to the nation that they were not sold off to pay their bills. Railroad management was also confronted with outdated employee work rules and an "us versus them" mentality that remained from the problems the railroads had in the 19th century. www.berkshirescenicrailroad.org /education.php   (7600 words)

Railroad Museum - Golden, Colorado - trains, railroad history The museum was established in 1959 to preserve for future generations a tangible record of Colorado's flamboyant railroad era, particularly the state's pioneering narrow gauge mountain railroads. In 1964 the not-for-profit Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation, a 501 (c)(3), was formed to assume ownership and operation of the museum. The Colorado Railroad Museum is recognized as one of the best privately supported rail museums in the United States. www.crrm.org   (637 words)

THE NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME, INC. - Hamlet NC, The National Railroad Museum was relocated to a temporary location on Hamlet Avenue in November, 2000 where it will remain in operation until the station has been restored. The purpose of the museum is to create that time when railroads were the main source of long distance travel and passenger train service was at its zenith. The Museum's purpose is to preserve railroad history and promote that history in modern-day railroading. www.micropublishing.com /railroad   (710 words)

National New York Central Railroad Museum - Tour The Museum was founded in 1987 and is an ever growing preserver of both local and national railroad heritage. Elkhart's National New York Central RR Museum recaptures the days when locomotives were symbols of progress, and ambassadors of goodwill across the country. At the center of it all was the New York Central Railroad. www.nycrrmuseum.org /tour.html   (535 words)

National Railroad Museum It was donated to the museum by the Marienette, Tomahawk and Western in 1973 and wore their colors until it was restored to its original MandStL paint scheme three years ago. Unfortunately, the museum's location along the Fox River and the harsh Wisconsin weather were not kind to this or other locomotives in the collection. The museum constructed a small display building in the early 1990s that was known as the Lefestey Center. www.rypn.org /rypn_files/articles/Articles/030420Greenbay   (1167 words)

Galesburg Railraod Museum history The Galesburg Railroad Museum is a not for profit corporation established to promote the research, exploration and discovery of the history of the railroad industry as it applies to Galesburg and Western Illinois. Employees of the railroad were enthusiastic about the idea and offered their time and assistance in demonstrating to the public what each craft did to make a successful railroad operation and to let the public view this operation. The museum would not have begun or grown to what it is today were it not for the vision and dedication of the early supporters of the idea and who all became its charter Board of Directors. www.galesburgrailroadmuseum.org /Gales_RR_Museum/museumshistory.htm   (1352 words)

National Railroad Museum – Explore America's Railroad Heritage With that in mind, the National Railroad Museum, in conjunction with Museum friend and project director, Don Meyer, announce the Eisenhower Project. Contact Us The National Railroad Museum is a privately funded, non-profit corporation The goal of the Eisenhower Project is the construction of a permanent exhibit in the Museum's Lenfestey Center that better interprets for Museum guests the significance of both the Dwight D. Eisenhower locomotive and the command coaches. www.nationalrrmuseum.org   (615 words)

Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum "Westward Expansion – Railroad Surveys." National Park Service. Railroad to the Pacific." by Horace Greeley, 1859. The first transcontinental railroad was completed when the rails of the Union Pacific, reaching westward from Omaha, Nebraska, and those of the Central Pacific Railroad, reaching eastward from Sacramento, California were joined, completing the coast-to-coast connection. www.cprr.org /Museum   (4126 words)

Harvard Gazette: The Big Picture His father, Harold Fuller, founded the National Railroad Museum in 1956 in Green Bay, Wis. Back then, the Fuller family's idea of a great summer vacation was to travel to mining country in Wyoming to watch the huge steam locomotives hauling mile-long trains loaded with ore through the mountains. Except for museums like the one in Green Bay or the fantasy railroading school in Essex, Conn., where Fuller finally got his hand on the throttle, the steam locomotive has been rendered nearly extinct by diesels and electric trains. Later, Fuller worked at the Railroad Museum, arranging an exhibition of General Eisenhower's World War II command train, which had been shipped over from England. www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/05.06/05-bigpic.html   (430 words)

Template_Minutes 2001 Kriescher made a motion to approve the request by the Children’s Museum to relocate to City property leased by the National Railroad Museum and refer this to the Law Department to draft the appropriate lease documents. Staff said this was before the Committee because the Railroad Museum is located at Cooke Memorial Park, which is city property. Steve Marshall, President of the Children’s Museum, said this gives them the opportunity to partner with a large tourist attraction, which will aid in the long-term survival of the museum. www.ci.green-bay.wi.us /mins_agd/minutes/20040427MN30.html   (2296 words)

Railroad Museums: WISCONSIN The mission of the National Railroad Museum is to collect and preserve the equipment, artifacts and historical material associated with railroading. The Mid-Continent Railway Museum is dedicated to preserving and interpreting the railroad legacy for the educational benefit of the general public. The Mid-Continent is an outdoor, living museum and operating railroad recreating the small town/short line way of life during the "Golden Age of Railroading," spanning the years 1880-1916, with operating trains, educational exhibits, and displays of restored rolling stock. www.railmuseums.com /namerica/WISCONSIN   (542 words)

Friends of The Nevada State Railroad Museum The Nevada State Railroad Museum houses over 60 pieces of railroad equipment from Nevada's past and is considered one of the finest regional railroad museums in the country. Museum activities include operation of historic railroad equipment, hand car races, lectures, an annual railroad history symposium, changing exhibits, and a variety of special events. The museum is located at 2180 S. Carson Street (US 395) in Carson City and is open daily, year-round, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. www.nsrm-friends.org   (591 words)

Wisconsin The National Railroad Museum was chartered by an Act of Congress and has an extensive collection of static locomotives, including a Big Boy, the Union Pacific locomotive which was the largest in the world. This Museum is an actual segment of the Wisconsin Electric Railroad and Light Company, the electric railroad that served Milwaukee and surrounding communities. The Museum is a volunteer nonprofit organization and was originally formed in 1959, with operations at the present location beginning in 1963. www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Trails/4984/Wisconsin.html   (824 words)

Museums - Subject Links Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania: One of the most significant collections of historic railroad artifacts in the world. National Canal Museum: The only museum focusing on the nation's historic canals and how they developed into today's inland waterways. Polar Museums Directory: provides brief details of museums with collections relating to the Arctic and Antarctic and was compiled by William Mills, Librarian and Keeper of Collections at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. thorplus.lib.purdue.edu /hsse/subjectlinks/museums.html   (520 words)

OnMilwaukee.com Sports: Beyond Milwaukee: Green Bay's National Railroad Museum In Fennimore, the Railroad Historical Society Museum houses The Dinky, a replica of a 1907 Davenport locomotive. If model railroading is your passion -- like it is mine -- you can see a great exhibit that is maintained by local clubs in a side building to the main museum. Inside the museum, you also can trace the development of rail from the early years through the building of the nation years and into the future. www.onmilwaukee.com /sports/articles/beyond0304.html   (778 words)

Wisconsin Attractions: Train Rides and Railroad Museums Nestled in the toe of Juneau County is the road bed of the Lacrosse and Milwaukee Railroad built 1857. The Mineral Point Railroad Society was formed in 2000 to further the restoration of Mineral Point's historic railroad depot, and to promote historic preservation and community awareness through related historical activities. Railroad artifacts, photos, videos, equipment and model trains in the former C and NW depot. www.wisconline.com /attractions/railways.html   (361 words)

A Sightseer's Guide to Engineering - Details for National Railroad Museum A Sightseer's Guide to Engineering - Details for National Railroad Museum This museum's hands-on, interactive displays and superb collection of more than 75 pieces of rolling stock (many of which are restored and operable) provide visitors with new insights into the history and significance of railroading. From that point on, the social, economic, technological, and military history of the world has borne the imprint of the railroads--and of the mechanical engineers whose technological innovations enabled the industry to evolve over the centuries. www.engineeringsights.org /SightDetail.asp?Sightid=485&id=WI&view=s&name=Wisconsin&page=1&image=0   (194 words)

Underground Railroad on Encyclopedia.com This nomenclature, along with the numerous, somewhat glorified, personal reminiscences written by conductors in the postwar period, created the impression that the Underground Railroad was a highly systematized, national, secret organization that accomplished prodigious feats in stealing slaves away from the South. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, opened to the public on August 20, 2004. The abolitionists used the Underground Railroad as a propaganda device to dramatize the evils of slavery; Southern slaveholders publicized it to illustrate Northern infidelity to the fugitive slave laws. www.encyclopedia.com /html/U/Undergro.asp   (867 words)

ICQ.com - Search Results The National Railroad Museum is a qualified 501(c)(3) non-profit, educational National Railroad Museum – Explore America's Railroad Heritage Steam locomotives and restored coaches, chiefly from the Virginia and Truckee Railroad. www.icq.com/search/welcome_results.php?q=related:http://www.trainmuseum.org   (150 words)

AllRefer.com - Green Bay, city, United States, United States (U.S. Political Geography) - Encyclopedia Of interest are the National Railroad Museum and many historical buildings, including the Tank Cottage (1776). With the settlement of the Old Northwest after the War of 1812 and the decline of the fur trade, Green Bay became the trade center of a lumber and farm area. A branch of the Univ. of Wisconsin and a technical college are in the city, which is also the home of the Green Bay Packers professional football team. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/GreenBayWI.html   (327 words)

Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, Hubbard House Museum, an Original Underground Railroad Terminus (UGRR), featuring UGRR, Civil War, and American Exhibits. The Ohio Underground Railroad is a White House National Millennium Trail Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, Hubbard House Museum, an Original Underground Railroad Terminus (UGRR), featuring UGRR, Civil War, and American Exhibits. There are three distinct features of the Hubbard House: the circa 1841 home of William and Catharine Hubbard on the first floor, the Underground Railroad exhibit area on the second floor; and the Civil War and Americana exhibit area in the basement. www.hubbardhouseugrrmuseum.org   (159 words)

Traveling National Railroad Spike Museum The Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society was proud to sponsor the only midwest appearance of the NRSM, July 24, 2004 at Linden. Left: The Museum arrived disguised as a Chevy pickup. George Carpenter donated an office chair to the Museum. www.monon.org /spikemuseum.html   (245 words)

National Railroad Museum & Hall of Fame, North Carolina NC, museum profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk Museums near National Railroad Museum and Hall of Fame North Carolina > All counties > > National Railroad Museum and Hall of Fame Campgrounds near National Railroad Museum and Hall of Fame www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/geninfo.php?locIndex=58756   (207 words)

"National Railroad Museum" There is a merchandise store for a souvenir to remember your trip to the Green Bay National Railroad Museum. he National Railroad Museum is located on Ashland Avenue on the west side of Green Bay. When you exit the train station before you go into the museum make sure to take a look at the miniature trains. www.discoverlivesteam.com /magazine/22.html   (661 words)

The Official Whippany Railway Museum Web Site The predecessor organization of the Whippany Railway Museum was the Morris County Central Railroad Museum, which operated from 1965 to 1973 in conjunction with the steam-powered weekend excursion trains of the MORRIS COUNTY CENTRAL RAILROAD (MCC). It is the mission of the Whippany Railway Museum to preserve the heritage and history of the railroads. The Whippany Railway Museum made history on March 4, 2002 when its ex-U.S. Army Steam Locomotive No. 4039 was given the highest recognition as a National Treasure by its placement on the National Register of Historic Places. www.whippanyrailwaymuseum.org   (562 words)

Amtrak Historical Society 2003 Saturday, May 3rd, will include a tour and lunch at the National Railroad Museum, home of the Rock Island Aerotrain #2, Union Pacific dome diner #8003, Dwight D. Eisenhower's WWII staff train, and other historically significant pieces of railroad equipment. Tour of National Railroad Museum Green Bay, Wisconsin 12:00 noon Hobo Lunch Museum 05:30 p.m. Depart Hotel for National Railroad Museum Ramada Plaza Lobby 10:00 a.m. www.amtrakhistoricalsociety.com /2003   (461 words)

Rossville Depot Railroad Museum The Danville Junction Chapter of the NRHS operates the Rossville Depot Railroad Museum in Rossville, Illinois. The museum features a collection of railroadiana material from various railroads in the area. The museum’s archives contain a vast amount of historical documents from the C&EI and its predecessors. www.prairienet.org /djc-nrhs/museum.html   (462 words)

National underground railroad museum set to open wkyc.com National underground railroad museum set to open wkyc.com / National underground railroad museum set to open POSTED: Monday, August 02, 2004 12:18:45 PM UPDATED: Monday, August 02, 2004 12:18:45 PM CINCINNATI -- The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is scheduled to open to the public in Cincinnati Tuesday. www.wkyc.com /news/news_print.asp?id=21474   (155 words)

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