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The National Railroad Museum, Located In Green Bay, Wisconsin

The National Railroad Museum, located Green Bay, Wisconsin is one of the oldest and most respected such institutions in the country with its earliest beginnings dating back to 1956. It's interesting that this museum began as an endeavor to preserve a single steam locomotive in a local city park and has since snowballed into an institution that was recognized by Congress in 1958 as the National Railroad Museum with today a collection that features several dozen locomotives and even more rolling stock.

Aside from the railroad's large, and growing collection of locomotives and equipment it also features interactive and static displays (such as an entire room of original passenger train drumheads from various railroads around the country) in its indoor facilities. Aside from the drumheads other features include an operating model railroad, original railroad tower, and a short stretch of track that among other things plays host the very popular Day Out with Thomas event for kids. All in all, if you have the chance, a visit to the National Railroad Museum is one of the must-see such institutions in the country.

Below is a list of some of the locomotives on display at the National Railroad Museum:

Diesel Locomotives

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy: EMD SD24 #510

Georgia Pacific Railway: Alco S-2 #63-146

Georgia Pacific Railway: Alco S-2 #63-180

Green Bay & Western: Alco C430 #315

Manistique & Lake Superior Railway: Alco S-3 #1

Milwaukee Road: EMD E9A #38A

Milwaukee RoadV EMD Fairbanks-Morse H-10-44 #767

Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway: EMD NW-1 #D538

Rock Island: AeroTrain Trainset

Soo Line: EMD GP30 #715

Southern Pacific: Alco S-6

St. Paul Union Depot: GE 44-Tonner #441

US Army Alco RSD-1: #8651

Electric Locomotives

Pennsylvania Railroad: GG1 #4890

Steam Locomotives

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: K-4 Class 2-8-4 #2736

Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad: 2-8-0 Consolidation Type #24

London & North Eastern Railway/British Railways: A4 Class 4-6-2 #60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railroad: E-1 Class 2-10-2 #506

Pullman Car & Manufacturing Company: 0-4-0T #29

Santa Fe: 2-10-4 5011 Class Texas Type #5017

Soo Line: H-23 Class 4-6-2 Pacific Type #2718

Sumter & Choctaw Railroad: 2-8-2 Mikado Type #102

US Army: 2-8-0 Consolidation Type #101

Union Pacific: 4-8-8-4 Big Boy #4017

For more information about visiting the National Railroad Museum and discovering everything available to see and do there please click here.

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