Railroads » Libraries, Archives & Museums

Orange Empire Railway Museum

OERM's purpose is to preserve and display rail transportation equipment used in Southern California, including street car equipment.

Parliamentary Archives: House of Lords Record Office

The archive service for both Houses of Parliament and facilitates public access to several million records which are preserved in the Victoria Tower repository. The records include plans of canals, roads, railways and other public works deposited in connection with private bills from 1794.

Peters Railroad Museum

Wallingford, Connecticut.

Railroad Collections

From the Milwaukee Urban Archives at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

Strasburg, Pennsylvania.

Railroads in American Culture, 1850-1950 - A Pathfinder

Highlights selected aspects of the cultural influence of the railroad based on materials currently on the University of North Carolina campus at Chapel Hill.

Railway & Locomotive Society

New Zealand.

Rare Book Collections in the Special Collections Department University of Iowa Libraries

Reading Railroad Museum

Pennsylvania.

South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society - Pullman Collection

SSGHS staff will search employee records of the Pullman Car Works (circa 1900-1949).

St. Louis Mercantile Library

At the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Established in 1846 by civic leaders and philanthropists, the Mercantile exists today as a vibrant community, cultural asset. It is the oldest library west of the Mississippi and the grandparent of all cultural institutions in St. Louis. The task of the Mercantile Library as a research library is to make its collections, which have come to concentrate on Western Expansion and the history, development, and growth of the St. Louis region and of the American rail and river transportation experiences, available to the widest number of local and national users.

State Archives of Michigan - Circular No. 13, Railroad Records

The Age of Steam Railroad Museum

An overview and virtual tour of our Railroad Museum which is located at historic Fair Park in Dallas Texas.

The B&O Railroad Museum

Baltimore, Maryland.

The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Museum

A unique and historical working collection of British steam railway engines and carriages plus a nationally accredited steam Museum. The collection includes Queen Victoria's royal dining carriage as well as the carriage used by Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Churchill during the planning for the D Day landings.

The Directory of North American Railroads, Associations, Societies, Archives, Libraries, Museums and Their Collections

A book by Holly T. Hansen, B.A. The book is no longer in print, but this link points to the entry in Worldcat giving you the opportunity to find the book through your library.

The National Railway Museum, York

England.

The Newberry Library

Chicago, Illinois.

UK Heritage Railways

These pages are intended to provided a guide to all heritage railways, preserved locomotives, preservation societies and railway museums in the UK.

University Libraries at Virginia Tech