Gopher State Railway Museum

GSRM encourages its volunteers and visitors to support all their local railroad museums, railroad historical associations and community historical societies.

Please be sure to check out and support the Historical Societies and Museums listed below that have been suggested by GSRM volunteers or visitors.

Please note - because a link is shown below is no indication of affiliation between that group and GSRM.  It merely represents an interesting museum or historical society of similar background suggested by a volunteer or visitor.

If you represent one of these groups and prefer to have the link removed - please use our "contact us" page to let us know and we'll remove the link.

Thank you!

"Twin Ports Time Machine" - Twin Ports Rail History by Jeff Lemke

Excellent site for railroad history and photos of the Twin Ports of Duluth/Superior.  Strongly recommend checking this site out.

• https://www.twinportsrailhistory.com/

Association of Tourist Railroads & Railway Museums

• https://www.atrrm.org/

Minnesota Transportation Museum

Including - Jackson Street Roundhouse and Osceola & St Croix Valley Railroad 

• http://www.mtmuseum.org/
• http://www.mtmuseum.org/?div=jsr
•  http://www.mtmuseum.org/?div=oscv

Minnesota Streetcar Museum

• http://www.trolleyride.org/

Lake Superior Railroad Museum

• http://www.lsrm.org/Home/index.html

North Shore Scenic Railway

• http://www.northshorescenicrailroad.org/Home/Home.asp

Milwaukee Road Heritage Center - Montevideo, MN

• http://www.montevideomrhc.org/

Mid Continent Railroad Museum - North Freedom, WI

• http://www.midcontinent.org/ 

Illinois Railway Museum - Union, IL

• http://www.irm.org/

Burlington Route Historical Society

• http://www.burlingtonroute.com/

Great Northern Railway Historical Society

• http://www.gnrhs.org/

Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association

• http://www.nprha.org/Pages/Home.aspx

Chicago & North Western Historical Society

• http://www.cnwhs.org/

Missabe Railroad Historical Society

• http://www.missabe.com/cms/

Miwaukee Road Historical Association

• http://www.mrha.com/

Rock Island Technical Society

• http://www.rits.org/RITS/history.html

Twin City Model Railroad Museum

• http://www.tcmrm.org/

Hennepin Overland Railroad Historical Society

• http://www.hennepinoverland.org/default.asp

Scott County Historical Society

• http://scottcountyhistory.org/

Carver County Historical Society

• http://www.carvercountyhistoricalsociety.org/

New Prague Area Historical Society

• http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/npa

 Ohio Railway Museum

• http://www.ohiorailwaymuseum.org/

 Minnesota Fire Engine Club

• www.MNFEC.com