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Milwaukee Road Archives

Milwaukee Public Library was designated as the official archives of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, a.k.a. the Milwaukee Road, in 1981.

Milwaukee Road Heritage Center

Preserves the Milwaukee Road history through extensive displays of railroad equipment and a working railroad yard with turntable located at 301 State Road-Suite 1, Montevideo, Minnesota, 56265.

Minnesota Historical Society - Gale Family Library

Minnesota Historical Society Library - Railroad Records Research: Family History

Modern Records Centre

The Centre's holdings focus on UK trade union records.

National Railway Museum - Research and Archive

York, England.

North American Railroad Museums

A list of addresses and phone numbers.

Northern Ohio Railway Museum

Chippewa Lake, Ohio. A work-in-progress museum that is building a 2 mile demonstration railway as a place to operate its fleet of over 25 streetcars and related railway equipment.

Orange Empire Railway Museum

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

Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive

Welcome to the search site for multiple railroad heritage organizations, maintained by the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive. Includes the Burlington Northern Railroad Company; the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company; the Great Norther Railway Company (U.S.); the Northern Pacific Railroad Company; the Pacific Coast Railroad Company; the Southern Pacific Railroad Company; the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway; the Union Pacific Railroad Company; and logging and other railroads.

Peters Railroad Museum

Wallingford, Connecticut.

Railroad Museum of New England

Located in Thomaston, Connecticut.

Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

Strasburg, Pennsylvania.

Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania - Library and Archives

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.

Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History

Located in Kennesaw, Georgia. Experience the dramatic history of railroads and the War Between the States at the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History. The Southern Museum

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.