Lake Superior Railroad Museum

Lake Superior Railroad Museum

The museum is housed at the Duluth Depot
Established	1973
Location	506 W. Michigan St., Duluth, Minnesota
Coordinates	46°46′53″N 92°06′14″W / 46.7814°N 92.1039°W / 46.7814; -92.1039
Type	Railroad museum
Website	http://www.lsrm.org/

The Lake Superior Railroad Museum (reporting mark LSRX)^[1] is a railroad museum in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.

The museum has seven steam, fourteen diesel, and two electric locomotives as well as over 40 other pieces of rolling stock. The collection includes the William Crooks, which became the first locomotive to operate in the state of Minnesota in 1861, and the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Number 227, a 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" locomotive which was among the largest steam engines to ever operate.

The museum operates a heritage railroad called the North Shore Scenic Railroad.

The building in which the museum is housed is former Duluth Union Depot – now the Saint Louis County Heritage and Arts Center's Historic Union Depot; the building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The depot also houses the Duluth Arts Institute, Duluth Playhouse, the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, and the Saint Louis County Historical Society.

Museum Collection

Steam Locomotives

Locomotive	Type	Built	Retired	Acquired	On Display	Operational	Image
Duluth and Northeastern #28	2-8-0 "Consolidation"	1906	1965	Donated 1974	No	In Restoration
Minnesota Steel #7	0-4-0T "Tank Engine"	1915		Donated 1973	Yes	No	currently unavailable
St. Paul and Pacific #1 "William Crooks"	4-4-0 "American"	1861	1948	Loaned 1974	Yes	No
Northern Pacific #2435	2-6-2 "Prairie"	1907	1954	Donated 1978	Yes	No	currently unavailable
Duluth and Northern Minnesota #14	2-8-2 "Mikado"	1913	1964	Donated 1992	Yes	(No) 1992 - 1998	currently unavailable
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range #227	2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone"	1941	1960	Donated 1974	Yes	No	currently unavailable
Northern Pacific #1 "Minnetonka"	0-4-0T "Tank Engine"	1870	1948	Donated	Yes	No
Soo Line #2719	4-6-2 "Pacific"	1923	1959	Purchased 2015	Yes	(No) 2007 - 2013

Electric Locomotives

Diesel Locomotives

Locomotive	Type	Built	Retired	Acquired	On Display	Operational	IMAGE
Soo Line #2500	FP7-A	1949	1986	Donated 1986	Yes	1995 -
Soo Line #700	GP-30	1963	2001	Donated 2001	Yes	2001 -
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range #193	SD-18	1960	1998	Donated 1998	Yes	2002 -
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range #316	SD-M	1960	2008	Donated 2008	Yes	2008 -
Great Northern #192	NW5	1947	1996	Purchased 1996	Yes	1999 -
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic #101	Alco RS1	1945	2002	Leased 2002	Yes	2009 -	currently unavailable
Erie Mining Company #4211	F9A	1956	2001	Donated 2002	Yes	2002 -
Erie Mining Company #4222	F9B	1956	2001	Donated 2006	Yes	No	currently unavailable
Erie Mining Company #7243	S12	1956	1992	Donated 1992	Yes	No	currently unavailable
Oliver Iron Mining #900	HH1000	1940	1973	Donated 1974	Yes	Yes	currently unavailable
Hallett Dock Company #11	H-10-44	1946	2005	Donated 2005	Yes	Yes	currently unavailable
Northern Pacific #3617	SD45	1967	1987/again 2007	Donated 2007	Yes	In Restoration

Passenger Cars

Cabooses

• Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range #C9
• Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range #C12
• Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific #76923
• Soo Line #99017
• Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range #C205
• Great Northern #X452
• Northern Pacific #1311
• Soo Line #1

Service Equipment

• Northern Pacific Rotary Snow Plow #2: Built in 1887 by the Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works and the oldest surviving rotary snow plow in the world. The museum acquired it in 1975 and it was designated a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark in 2015.^[2]
• Burlington Northern Steam Powered Wrecker #D161 - Built 1915
• Northern Pacific Wedge Snowplow #19 - Built 1907
• Northern Pacific Steam Powered Wrecker #38 - Built 1913

See also

• List of heritage railroads in the United States

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lake Superior Railroad Museum.

• Museum's website