Railroad Museums In The USA (2026): State Guides & Collections
Last revised: October 16, 2026
By: Adam Burns
A railroad museum is where the industry keeps what the timetable no longer needs: locomotives, cars, depots, tools, and the paper trail. Most are nonprofits on volunteer labor. A few are state or federal properties. Almost none publish hours that stay true for a year, which is why this hub does not pretend to be a ticket office. Confirm opening days, ride calendars, and admission on each museum’s own site before you drive.
This page is the national map. Below the overview is every dedicated state museum guide currently on American-Rails.com, plus destination collections that already have their own articles. All fifty state guides are in the table below. The table is a list of pages, not a catalog. Excursion railroads that happen to have a display building are covered on the tourist trains hub. Seasonal events live on Christmas, Polar Express, Halloween, and fall-foliage pages.
Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 “Big Boy” #4006 at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis. Eight Big Boys survive; this is one of them. American-Rails.com collection.
On this page: At a glance · Museum vs tourist railroad · How preservation started · State guides · Destination museums · When a single museum deserves its own page · Related reading
At a glance
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| What this hub covers | Static and operating railroad museums, depot museums, and preservation collections. Not Class I freight, not Amtrak |
| Oldest U.S. rail-history society | Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, 1921 |
| NRHS | National Railway Historical Society, 1935 |
| First organized U.S. fan trip often cited | Massachusetts Bay Railroad Enthusiasts, 1934, Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington. The ride story is on the tourist hub |
| Postwar boom | Steam retired, mergers erased names, clubs turned stored engines into museums. Most of today’s large collections date from the 1950s–70s |
| Federal / national names | Steamtown National Historic Site (NPS, Scranton); Smithsonian (Washington); National Railroad Museum (Green Bay, Congressional recognition 1958, not a second Smithsonian) |
| Company museums | Baltimore & Ohio opened a museum on July 4, 1953 (rebranded 2026; see below). Union Pacific opened its museum in Council Bluffs on May 10, 2003 |
| Largest collection often cited | Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois—built from scratch, little public subsidy |
| How to use this site | State guide for a trip list. Individual museum article for a famous collection. Museum website for hours and tickets |
Museum, tourist railroad, or both?
The words get used as if they were the same thing. They are not.
- Railroad museum — a collection first: locomotives, cars, a depot, archives. Some never move a wheel. Some run a short loop on the grounds.
- Tourist / scenic railroad — a ride first: a scheduled excursion on a former freight branch or a rebuilt main. Displays may sit at the depot.
- Operating museum — both, on purpose. Illinois Railway Museum, Steamtown, North Carolina Transportation Museum, Tennessee Valley, and East Broad Top all sell a visit and a train. The collection is the point; the ride is how many people discover it.
Small-town depot museums are real museums. They are also the places whose hours go stale first. This hub will not reprint “open select weekends” as if it were a 2026 fact. A restored 1890s station with a caboose and a local historical society is worth a state-hub mention. It rarely needs its own separate article here.
Most museums run on donations and volunteers. A handful have state or federal money: California State Railroad Museum, Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Steamtown, the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay. Equipment is expensive to restore and more expensive to keep. Steam overhauls run into the millions. If a collection near you is still standing, someone is paying for paint, track, and insurance.
Texas State Railroad 4-6-0 #201 in 1983. Built by Alco’s Cooke Works as Texas & Pacific #316. A state-owned excursion railroad with a collection, not a glass-case museum. Mike Bledsoe photo. American-Rails.com collection.
How the museum movement started
Railfans existed before museums did. The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, founded in 1921, is the oldest U.S. organization devoted to railroad history. Clubs multiplied in the 1930s: about 65 groups in 1934 and 96 by 1959, figures Rosemary Entringer put in Trains (“The Railfan, Inc.,” June 1959). The National Railway Historical Society formed in 1935. David P. Morgan, in the September 1969 Trains piece “Are These People Embalmers Or Enthusiasts?,” treated the hobby as a range—photography, models, riding—not a single personality type.
The first organized U.S. fan trip usually cited is 1934. Class I roads still hosted steam specials into the 1960s (Reading’s Iron Horse Rambles are the famous late example). Insurance and liability ended most of that. What replaced it was the museum and the short tourist line: equipment the railroad no longer wanted, parked on a piece of track the railroad no longer needed.
The large institutions follow that timeline. The Baltimore & Ohio opened a museum in Baltimore on July 4, 1953. The National Railroad Museum in Green Bay dates to 1956 and received Congressional recognition in 1958—a name, not a second Smithsonian. F. Nelson Blount founded the Steamtown Foundation in 1964 and assembled a collection at Bellows Falls, Vermont, that included Union Pacific Big Boy #4012 and Nickel Plate 2-8-4 #759. Blount died in a plane crash on August 31, 1967. The collection became today’s Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton.
Illinois Railway Museum began as an interurban-saving idea in 1941, organized as the Illinois Electric Railway Museum in 1953 (first car: CRANDIC #65), and took the present name in 1962 so the mission was not only trolleys. The Union, Illinois, property was purchased in 1964. It is still the collection most often called the largest in the country, still largely without public subsidy.
R&LHS chapters did more than publish. The Southern California Chapter took Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 after retirement in 1961; it arrived at Pomona on January 8, 1962. In 2013 the chapter and Union Pacific agreed to send it back. The locomotive steamed again in 2019 for the transcontinental sesquicentennial. That is preservation as a loan to the living railroad, not only as a static display.
On July 14, 2026, the B&O Railroad Museum announced it would operate as the National Museum of Railroad History & Innovation (nationalrailroad.org), with a campus expansion aimed at the 2027 railroad bicentennial. The Baltimore roundhouse is still the place. The name on the door is new. See the rebrand note and the museum article.
Reading FP7 #902, and counterpart #900, at Steamtown in Scranton, May 30, 2010. Tom Granville photo.
State guides (dedicated pages)
Every state has a museum guide in the table. The row is the index: the page, and one reason to open it. Hours, fares, and which locomotive is on the property stay on that state page and on the museum’s own site. Excursion calendars stay on the tourist state guide.
| State | Guide | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | albmrrmsms.html | Heart of Dixie (Calera); North Alabama Railroad Museum (Huntsville) |
| Alaska | akrrms.html | Museum of Alaska at Wasilla; Tanana Valley No. 1 at Pioneer Park |
| Arizona | arzralmsms.html | Southern Pacific and Magma equipment at Chandler, Tucson, and Scottsdale |
| Arkansas | arkmsms.html | Arkansas Railroad Museum / Cotton Belt shops, Pine Bluff |
| California | calimusms.html | California State Railroad Museum; Western Pacific Railroad Museum (Portola) |
| Colorado | colramums.html | Colorado Railroad Museum (Golden) is the usual first stop; rides are on the tourist hub |
| Connecticut | cntcrrmsms.html | Naugatuck Railroad, Danbury, and the trolley museums |
| Delaware | delrrms.html | Depot and tower museums; small state, small list |
| Florida | fldrrms.html | Gold Coast, the Boca and Winter Garden depots, and the Florida Railroad Museum |
| Georgia | garrmsm.html | Savannah shops, the Texas in Atlanta, and the General at Kennesaw |
| Hawaii | hirrms.html | Hawaiian Railway Society at Ewa Beach, on the old Oahu Railway & Land |
| Idaho | idrrms.html | Nampa, Wallace, and Boise depots |
| Illinois | ilmsm.html | Illinois Railway Museum is the national-scale collection |
| Indiana | indarrmsms.html | Elkhart, the Monon depots, and French Lick. Indiana Transportation Museum is closed |
| Iowa | iarrmsms.html | Includes Union Pacific Railroad Museum, Council Bluffs |
| Kansas | ksrailmsms.html | Great Plains Transportation Museum, Wichita, and the Great Overland Station |
| Kentucky | kyrailmsms.html | Kentucky Railway Museum at New Haven |
| Louisiana | larrms.html | DeQuincy depot, Long Leaf, and Southern Pacific 745 |
| Maine | mnerrdms.html | Seashore Trolley Museum, and the two-foot lines at Portland and Alna |
| Maryland | maryldrrsms.html | Baltimore roundhouse, now the National Museum of Railroad History & Innovation |
| Massachusetts | massrrlmus.html | Berkshire Scenic at Lenox, Shelburne Falls, and Edaville |
| Michigan | mirrms.html | Pere Marquette 1225 at Owosso, Durand Union Station, and The Henry Ford |
| Minnesota | mnstarrms.html | Lake Superior Railroad Museum, Duluth, and the Missabe Yellowstone at Two Harbors |
| Mississippi | msrrms.html | McComb depot and Illinois Central 2542; Water Valley |
| Missouri | mosmms.html | Museum of Transportation, St. Louis (Big Boy #4006, among much else) |
| Montana | mtrrms.html | Livingston depot, Fort Missoula, and the Harlowton Milwaukee depot |
| Nebraska | nerrms.html | Durham Museum, Kenefick Park, and the Golden Spike Tower |
| Nevada | nvrrms.html | Carson City, Boulder City, and the Nevada Northern at East Ely |
| New Hampshire | newhamprrmsm.html | Conway Scenic’s 1874 depot, and the depots at Ashland and Gorham |
| New Jersey | njsryrrms.html | Whippany, Maywood station, and Pine Creek |
| New Mexico | nwmxrrmsm.html | Santa Fe 2926 in Albuquerque, and the Clovis depot |
| New York | nymsm.html | New York Museum of Transportation (West Henrietta) is one article; the state has more |
| North Carolina | nclnarrms.html | North Carolina Transportation Museum at Spencer |
| North Dakota | ndrrms.html | Mandan’s state museum, Minot, and Bonanzaville |
| Ohio | ohmeusm.html | Age of Steam Roundhouse, and the Dennison depot |
| Oklahoma | okrrms.html | Oklahoma Railway Museum, Enid’s Frisco 1519, and Waynoka |
| Oregon | oregnralmsm.html | Oregon Rail Heritage Center, home of Southern Pacific 4449 |
| Pennsylvania | pamusms.html | Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania; Steamtown NHS |
| Rhode Island | rirrms.html | Friends’ museum in the 1875 Kingston depot |
| South Carolina | scrrms.html | Winnsboro, Hub City at Spartanburg, and the Best Friend replica |
| South Dakota | sdrrms.html | Hill City museum beside the 1880 Train, and Prairie Village |
| Tennessee | tnrrms.html | Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum |
| Texas | txrrms.html | Museum of the American Railroad at Frisco, and Galveston |
| Utah | utrrms.html | Ogden Union Station and Golden Spike at Promontory |
| Vermont | vtrrms.html | Shelburne Museum’s Central Vermont ten-wheeler |
| Virginia | varrms.html | Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke |
| Washington | warrms.html | Northwest Railway Museum at Snoqualmie, and Mount Rainier Scenic at Elbe |
| West Virginia | wvrrms.html | Cass Scenic, the Hinton museum, and the Martinsburg roundhouse |
| Wisconsin | wisrrms.html | National Railroad Museum, Green Bay |
| Wyoming | wyrrms.html | Cheyenne Depot Museum, Douglas’s Burlington 5633, and the Laramie depot |
The state pages carry the organizations, the ancestor railroads, and the locomotive, car, depot, or shop each place is known for. This table does not repeat those lists.
Destination museums (articles already on AR)
These properties have dedicated American-Rails pages. Use them when you are choosing a trip around a collection, not a state list. Hours and whether a given locomotive is outdoors, indoors, or in the shop belong on the museum’s site.
| Museum | Where | Why people go |
|---|---|---|
| B&O Railroad Museum / National Museum of Railroad History & Innovation | Baltimore, Md. | Roundhouse; first common-carrier story. 2026 rebrand |
| California State Railroad Museum | Sacramento | State museum; transcontinental and SP/WP country under a roof |
| Illinois Railway Museum | Union, Ill. | Largest U.S. collection often cited; steam, diesel, and traction |
| Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania | Strasburg | PRR-heavy state collection next to an operating steam short line |
| Steamtown National Historic Site | Scranton, Pa. | NPS; Blount collection; operating shop in a former DL&W yard |
| National Railroad Museum | Green Bay, Wis. | Big Boy #4017, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s A4, grounds rides |
| North Carolina Transportation Museum | Spencer | Southern Railway shops; roundhouse; short rides on the grounds |
| Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum | Chattanooga | Operating museum on ex-Southern trackage; one of the South’s serious shops |
| Virginia Museum of Transportation | Roanoke | N&W 611 and 1218 country; N&W / Virginian collection |
| Western Pacific Railroad Museum | Portola, Calif. | WP diesels, including California Zephyr FP7 805-A |
| Florida Railroad Museum | Parrish | Collection plus excursions; seasonal trains on the tourist/Christmas hubs |
| Galveston Railroad Museum | Galveston, Tex. | Large Texas collection; depot setting |
| Kentucky Railway Museum | New Haven | L&N-country museum with excursions |
| North Alabama Railroad Museum | Huntsville | Regional collection and rides |
| New York Museum of Transportation | West Henrietta | Rochester-area traction and railroad collection |
| Indiana Transportation Museum | Noblesville (closed) | 1960–2017. Historical article, not a 2026 visit |
Two live links that were grouped with museums are not museums: the Chattanooga Choo Choo is a terminal hotel in the former Southern station, and the Izaak Walton Inn is a Great Northern lodging story at Essex, Montana.
Famous collections that still need a state hub (and in some cases a leaf) include Age of Steam Roundhouse (Sugarcreek, Ohio), Museum of Transportation (St. Louis; on the Missouri hub), Colorado Railroad Museum (Golden), Nevada State Railroad Museum (Carson City and Boulder City), Oregon Rail Heritage Center (Portland: SP 4449, SP&S 700, OR&N 197), and Mid-Continent Railway Museum (North Freedom, Wisconsin). Those names will move from this paragraph to the state table as pages are written.
Wabash F7A #671 (built as #1162) at the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum, Bellevue, Ohio, October 1987. Still there. American-Rails.com collection.
Do individual museum pages earn their keep?
Most visitors will book on the museum’s website. A leaf on this site still pays when searchers are not looking for hours. They are looking for which museum holds a locomotive, whether a famous name is still a museum or a tourist railroad, or how a collection started. That is the same job the EBT, CSRM, and IRM pages already do.
Related Reading on American-Rails.com
- Scenic / tourist train rides
- U.S. railroad history
- Narrow gauge
- Interurbans and streetcars
- Fallen flags
- Stations and depots
- Polar Express rides · Christmas trains · Day Out With Thomas
Sources
- Railway & Locomotive Historical Society (founded 1921); rlhs.org
- Rosemary Entringer, “The Railfan, Inc.,” Trains, June 1959 (club counts 1934 / 1959)
- David P. Morgan, “Are These People Embalmers Or Enthusiasts?,” Trains, September 1969
- Jack A. Pfeifer, “The Great 6000-Mile Railfan Tour Of 1938,” Trains, August 1980
- Illinois Railway Museum institutional history: Illinois Electric Railway Museum 1953; rename 1962; Union property 1964
- National Railroad Museum, Green Bay: founded 1956; Congressional recognition 1958
- Steamtown: Blount foundation 1964; Blount died August 31, 1967; National Historic Site, Scranton
- B&O museum opening July 4, 1953; rebrand announcement July 14, 2026 (American-Rails.com /bonamechange.html)
- Union Pacific Railroad Museum, Council Bluffs, opened May 10, 2003
- Union Pacific / R&LHS Southern California Chapter: Big Boy #4014 donated 1961–62; return agreement 2013; steam 2019
Photographs on this page are from the American-Rails.com collection except as credited. American-Rails.com does not operate these museums and does not sell tickets. Confirm hours, admission, and whether a locomotive is accessible before you travel.
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