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The Lake Superior Railroad Museum (reporting mark LSRX) [1] is a railroad museum in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Opened in 1973, the museum focuses on railroading in the Lake Superior region. It is housed in the restored St. Louis County Depot.
The museum was created as a result of the restructuring of the Minnesota Transportation Museum (MTM) during the winter of 2004–2005. The MTM was founded in 1962 to restore a streetcar, Twin City Rapid Transit Company No. 1300, that had been operated by the TCRT until the last streetcar lines were abandoned in favor of buses in 1954.
The Minnesota Transportation Museum pressed this classic General Motors bus back into service as part of the Blue Line light rail opening in June 2004. An older Mack bus behind the Jackson Street Roundhouse. Up until 2019, Several buses from the 1940s and 1950s were also operated by the museum.
Cannibalized for spare parts for GN 598 at the Inland Northwest Rail Museum at Reardan, Washington [10] [11] Burlington Northern 6234 April 1959 SD9 Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S) Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) 2003 Operational at the Minnesota Transportation Museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota [12] Elgin, Joliet and Eastern 818 April 1959 SD-M
The 75-minute Duluth Zephyr runs several times a day during the main operating season. [1] Vintage train cars are pulled by a vintage diesel engine through Duluth to the Lester River at the north end of the city. Passengers watch the engine uncouple, move to the back of the train, and pull it back to the station.
Operational at the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) in Union, Illinois [25] [26] 16107 Great Northern 558 May 1952 SD7 Great Northern Railway (GN) Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) Cargill; August 27, 1983 Awaiting restoration at the Minnesota Transportation Museum in Saint Paul, Minnesota [27] [28] 17145 BUGX 1501 November 1952 SD7R
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SS William A. Irvin is a lake freighter, named for William A. Irvin, that sailed as a bulk freighter on the Great Lakes as part US Steel's lake fleet. She was flagship of the company fleet from her launch in the depths of the Great Depression in 1938 until 1975 and then was a general workhorse of the fleet until her retirement in 1978.