Gopher State Railway Museum

Gopher State Railway Museum
25501 Helena Blvd.
PO Box 125
New Prague, MN 56071
ph: 952-758-8729
alt: 952-412-2145
gopherstaterailwaymuseum@yahoo.com

Give Us Shelter Campaign

During the course of the past five years, GSRM volunteers have been busy building an operating museum on 20 acres of farmland, about 2 miles north of New Prague, MN which is now open to the public, the first Saturday of the month, 10am to 3pm between May and October.

The next critical phase of GSRM's growth is construction of a four track, 200ft long, steel framed shop building.

The main purpose of the building is as follows:

Provide indoor, secure storage for GSRM's historic collection of 100-plus year old wood rail cars
Provide safe and convienient access to GSRM's collection of rolling stock to visitors
Provide shop space to restore and maintain GSRM's historic rolling stock and locomotives to operation
Provide modern, handicap accessible restroom faciilities with running water to volunteers and visitors
Provide a heated/air conditioned meeting space for volunteer training and general membership meetings

How can you help?

Please consider a donation, no matter how large or small, every dollar counts. Please send your donations to:

Gopher State Railway Museum

Give Us Shelter Campaign

PO Box 125

New Prague, MN 56071

Other historic pieces that will benefit from a shop building:

Alco S4 Diesel Switcher - Built 1954

Budd Stainless Steel Coach - Built 1940

EMC SW1 Diesel Switcher - Built 1940

Thrall Bay Window Caboose - Built 1956

Some of GSRM's Historic Rolling Stock Needing Protection

About 95% of GSRM's rolling stock collection is of wood construction and in spite of volunteer's best efforts, deteriorating rapidly exposed to the elements.

All of the rolling stock depicted below is 100 or more years old.

James J Hill's Private Car Manitoba

Pullman Built 1880