Minnesota Railroad Museums: A Complete Guide
Last revised: October 8, 2026
By: Adam Burns
Minnesota’s railroad museum is the old depot in Duluth, and the state’s first locomotive is inside it. The Lake Superior Railroad Museum keeps the William Crooks, a Missabe Yellowstone, and the North Shore Scenic Railroad’s ticket window under one roof at 506 West Michigan Street. Two Harbors, up the same ore road, has the other Yellowstone, No. 229, beside a Duluth & Iron Range Mogul of 1883. In St. Paul the Great Northern’s Jackson Street Roundhouse is a working museum. Willmar displays Great Northern 4-8-2 No. 2523. Currie still turns locomotives by hand on an Omaha Road table of 1901.
The Lake Superior Railroad Museum occupies the historic train shed of the St. Louis County Depot and offers an impressive collection for visitors to peruse, largely focusing on railroads of the Upper Midwest region. Lake Superior Railroad Museum photo.
Which days the North Shore train, the Como-Harriet streetcar, and the Osceola ride run is on the Minnesota scenic-train guide. The Osceola train boards in Wisconsin. Confirm the museum doors on each site before you drive.
On this page: At a glance · Minnesota railroads · Duluth · Two Harbors · St. Paul and Minnehaha · Willmar · Currie · Other stops · Related reading
At a glance
| Place | Town | What it is known for | Site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Superior Railroad Museum | Duluth | William Crooks, Missabe Yellowstone No. 227, and the North Shore train | lsrm.org · Scenic guide |
| Duluth & Iron Range depot | Two Harbors | D&IR 2-6-0 No. 3, Baldwin 1883, and Missabe Yellowstone No. 229 | Lake County Historical Society |
| Jackson Street Roundhouse | St. Paul | Great Northern roundhouse of 1907. Northern Pacific 4-6-0 No. 328 | trainride.org |
| Minnehaha Depot | Minneapolis | Milwaukee Road station of 1875, called the Princess | trainride.org |
| Como-Harriet Streetcar | Minneapolis | Minnesota Streetcar Museum. Linden Hills, 2330 West 42nd Street | trolleyride.org |
| Kandiyohi County Historical Society | Willmar | Great Northern 4-8-2 No. 2523, Baldwin 1923, class P-2 | kandiyohicountyhistory.com |
| End-O-Line Railroad Park | Currie | Omaha Road turntable of 1901, still turned by hand | endoline.com |
Minnesota railroads
The territorial legislature chartered the Minnesota & Pacific on May 22, 1857. The Panic of 1857 stopped it, and in March 1862 the legislature handed the rights to the St. Paul & Pacific. On June 28, 1862, the 4-4-0 William Crooks hauled a ceremonial train over the ten miles from St. Paul to St. Anthony. Regular service began on July 2. James J. Hill and his associates took the property in the late 1870s, reorganized it as the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba in 1879, and folded that company into the Great Northern in 1889–90. The Northern Pacific, chartered by Congress in 1864, was completed in 1883. The Soo Line was formed the same year. The Duluth & Iron Range delivered the first ore to Two Harbors in 1884. Great Northern and Northern Pacific became Burlington Northern on March 2, 1970. A fuller map is on the Minnesota railroads page.
Lake Superior Railroad Museum
The Lake Superior Railroad Museum occupies the train shed of the St. Louis County Depot at 506 West Michigan Street. The depot opened in 1892 for the roads that met at the Head of the Lakes, and the museum opened in the building in 1973. The locomotive that starts the state’s story is here on loan from the Minnesota Historical Society. The William Crooks was built in 1861 by the New Jersey Locomotive and Machine Company. Hill saved it from scrap. It has been in Duluth since the 1970s.
Beside it, Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range No. 227 is a class M-3 Yellowstone, a 2-8-8-4 built by Baldwin in 1941, one of the eighteen articulateds the Missabe owned as 220–237. Duluth & Northeastern No. 28 is a 2-8-0 built in 1906 by the American Locomotive Company’s Pittsburgh works, as Duluth, Missabe & Northern No. 332. It returned to steam in 2017. Soo Line 4-6-2 No. 2719, an Alco of 1923, came to the museum in 2019 and is in line for its next overhaul. Among the diesels are Soo Line FP7 No. 2500 and Great Northern NW5 No. 192.
The train that leaves this depot is the North Shore Scenic Railroad, on a piece of the old Missabe lakeshore toward Two Harbors. The Duluth Zephyr and the longer Northwoods Explorer are the ordinary trips. Which one is called, and which days the railroad is selling a full run to Two Harbors, stay on the scenic guide. Canadian National took the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range on May 10, 2004. The museum’s excursion is the surviving passenger move on that shore.
Two Harbors
Two Harbors is the ore dock town, and the Lake County Historical Society keeps the Duluth & Iron Range depot, the lighthouse, and the tug Edna G., which worked for the Missabe. On the track beside the depot are the two locomotives the town is known for.
Duluth & Iron Range No. 3 is a 2-6-0 built by Baldwin in 1883. Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range No. 229 is a class M-4 Yellowstone, a 2-8-8-4 built by Baldwin in 1943. The 1941 Yellowstones, Duluth’s No. 227 among them, are class M-3. The 1943 engines are the M-4s. The Duluth & Iron Range and the Duluth, Missabe & Northern combined in 1937 as the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range. No. 229 is the Two Harbors engine. No. 227 is the one indoors at Duluth.
Jackson Street and Minnehaha
The Minnesota Transportation Museum was formed in 1962 to save Twin City Rapid Transit car 1300, a wooden streetcar from the system that quit in 1954. The streetcar work grew into the Como-Harriet line, which began carrying riders in 1971. In the winter of 2004–2005 that line, and the Excelsior streetcar, became the Minnesota Streetcar Museum. The roundhouse, the depot, and the Osceola train stayed with the Transportation Museum.
Jackson Street Roundhouse, in St. Paul, is a Great Northern building of 1907, one of the last roundhouses James J. Hill put up. The museum bought it in 1986 and opened the public floor in 1999. The steam locomotive on display is Northern Pacific 4-6-0 No. 328, a Rogers engine of 1907, class S-10. It had sat in a Stillwater park. The museum leased it in 1976, restored it at the old Northern Pacific Como Shops, and turned a wheel under its own steam in 1981. It is back in the roundhouse while that work is renewed. Diesels are the engines the museum lists as ready to run. The train those diesels pull boards in Osceola, Wisconsin, and is written up on the Wisconsin scenic page.
The Minnehaha Depot, in Minnehaha Park, is a Milwaukee Road station completed in 1875. Agents called the little building the Princess. The first track past this ground was the Minnesota Central’s line of 1865 between Minneapolis and Mendota. The Milwaukee Road closed the station in August 1963 and gave it to the Minnesota Historical Society in 1964. The Transportation Museum keeps it. The days it is open are the museum’s.
The Como-Harriet streetcar is the other Twin Cities ride, and it is the Streetcar Museum’s. Cars leave Linden Hills, 2330 West 42nd Street, along the old garden track between Lake Harriet and Bde Maka Ska. The October days are on the scenic guide.
Great Northern 2523
Great Northern No. 2523 stands at the Kandiyohi County Historical Society, 610 Highway 71 Northeast in Willmar. It is a 4-8-2, class P-2, built by Baldwin in October 1923, serial 57343. The railroad bought twenty-eight of them, 2500–2527, for the Oriental Limited. No. 2523 was one of the coal burners assigned east of Cut Bank. Later P-2s drew the fast mail and the silk trains, and still later they worked freight. This engine was retired in April 1958. It went on display here in October 1965. One other P-2 survives, No. 2507, at Wishram, Washington.
The society’s grounds also hold a Great Northern depot moved from the town of Kandiyohi, a few miles east of Willmar. The locomotive is the reason to stop. The society posts the building hours. The engine is outdoors.
End-O-Line Railroad Park
End-O-Line Railroad Park & Museum, at 440 North Mill Street in Currie, is the west end of an Omaha Road branch that left the main line at Bingham Lake. The Chicago & North Western controlled the Omaha Road from 1882. The branch reached Currie in 1900 and stopped there, which is where the park’s name comes from. A hand-operated turntable went in the next year. In 1922 a 70-foot table brought from Pipestone replaced it. The National Register listing is 1977. Visitors on a tour still turn it by hand.
Passenger service ended in 1928. The last train left in April 1977, and the branch was abandoned in January 1980. A local 4-H club had already started on the turntable in 1972. The depot was bought from the North Western for one dollar and moved beside the table. A Chicago & North Western water tank came from Walnut Grove, and a section foreman’s house came from Comfrey. Out in the yard, Georgia Northern 4-6-0 No. 102, built by Alco’s Richmond works in 1923, is the full-size steam locomotive. A Baldwin of 1875 is indoors in the engine house.
Other Minnesota stops
The Gopher State Railway Museum, at 25501 Helena Boulevard in New Prague, is a volunteer shop and display of Minnesota railroad equipment. The museum posts its open days.
Wadena keeps a restored Northern Pacific depot as the town’s railroad museum. The exhibits are inside the building. The group posts the season.
The Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion at Rollag has gathered steam machinery over Labor Day weekend since 1954. A former Soo Line switcher is the railroad on the grounds. The weekend is the reunion’s.
The Twin City Model Railroad Museum, in St. Paul’s Bandana Square, occupies the old Northern Pacific Como Shops. The exhibit is a layout. Seasonal shows are the museum’s.
Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261 is kept by the Friends of the 261 in Minneapolis. The July 17–19, 2026, USA 250 trips have run. Any later mainline trip will be on the Friends’ list and on the scenic guide. The profile of those July trains is the America 250 page.
The Duluth River Train, the Lake Superior & Mississippi, is a separate ride on former Northern Pacific track along the estuary in West Duluth. It is a different railroad from the North Shore train. The calendar is on the scenic guide.
Related reading
- Railroad museums
- Minnesota railroads · Minnesota scenic trains
- Great Northern · Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range · Milwaukee Road · Soo Line · Chicago & North Western · Omaha Road
- Wisconsin scenic trains · Iowa railroad museums
Sources
- Lake Superior Railroad Museum, lsrm.org, at 506 West Michigan Street. The depot opened in 1892. The museum was established in 1973. William Crooks, New Jersey Locomotive and Machine Company, 1861, on loan from the Minnesota Historical Society. The June 28, 1862, first run and the May 10, 2004, Canadian National purchase of the Missabe follow the Minnesota scenic-train guide. Yellowstone No. 227 is class M-3, Baldwin 1941. Duluth & Northeastern No. 28 was built in 1906 as Duluth, Missabe & Northern No. 332 and returned to steam in 2017. Soo Line No. 2719, Alco 1923, purchased in 2019. Soo Line FP7 No. 2500 and Great Northern NW5 No. 192 are the diesels named above.
- Two Harbors: Duluth & Iron Range No. 3, Baldwin 1883. Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range No. 229, class M-4, Baldwin 1943. The eighteen Yellowstones are 220–237. The 1937 merger follows the Minnesota railroads page. Edna G. is the former Missabe tug at the Lake County complex.
- Minnesota Transportation Museum, trainride.org: formed in 1962 to save Twin City Rapid Transit car 1300. Jackson Street Roundhouse, Great Northern, 1907; purchased in 1986; museum opened in 1999. Northern Pacific No. 328, Rogers 1907, class S-10, restored to operation in 1981. The streetcar split of the winter of 2004–2005, and Como-Harriet service from 1971, follow the Minnesota Streetcar Museum’s history page. Como-Harriet boards at 2330 West 42nd Street. Minnehaha Depot, completed in 1875, closed in August 1963, given to the Minnesota Historical Society in 1964. Osceola follows the Wisconsin scenic page.
- Great Northern No. 2523: Baldwin, October 1923, serial 57343, class P-2, retired April 1958, placed at the Kandiyohi County Historical Society, 610 Highway 71 Northeast, Willmar, in October 1965. End-O-Line, endoline.com and MNopedia: 440 North Mill Street; branch reached Currie in 1900; turntable of 1901, replaced in 1922, listed in 1977; passenger service ended in 1928; last train April 1977; abandonment January 1980. Georgia Northern No. 102, Alco Richmond, 1923. The indoor Baldwin is dated 1875 on the park’s visitor page. Burlington Northern merger, March 2, 1970. Milwaukee Road No. 261 follows the Minnesota scenic-train guide: the July 17–19, 2026, trips have run.
Confirm hours and which locomotive is on the property before you travel. American-Rails does not sell tickets.
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