Museums and Historical Societies - North America

The Milwaukee Road Historical Association is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1972 and chartered with the State of Wisconsin to study and preserve the history of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.(the Milwaukee Road)

Mid-Continent is an outdoor living history museum and operating railroad recreating, preserving, and interpreting the small town/shortline way of life from the

The Chicago & North Western Historical Society was founded in 1973 by Joe Follmar and a group of Midwestern railfans interested in the C&NW, along with its predecessor and successor roads

The mission of the Soo Line Historical and Technical Society Archives is to collect and preserve equipment, artifacts and historical materials associated with the Soo Line Railroad, its predecessors and associated railroads, including the Wisconsin Central.

The Green Bay and Western Railroad was a paper carrying line and bridge route operating between the Mississippi River at Winona, Minnesota and Lake Michigan at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, via Green Bay. It was chartered in 1866 as the Green Bay and Lake Pepin to provide an outlet for the region\'s timber and agriculture

The Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association (NPRHA) is dedicated to preserving the history of America’s first northern transcontinental railroad. This is done by the nearly 2,000 members of the NPRHA who support research into the operations, equipment, and facilities of the NP and by modeling and publishing the various research findings.

Our Society is dedicated to the preservation, study, and history of one of America's greatest railroads, the Great Northern Railway.

The mission of the Burlington Route Historical Society is to preserve and disseminate historical information about the collective Burlington railroads for the benefit of our members and to others

Throughout its 160 years, the B&O Railroad enjoyed a rich and varied corporate life. It was America's first common carrier railroad and survived to become one of the world's oldest railroad companies through a combination of skill, foresight, and ingenuity and along the way acquired a secure place in the cultural and economic history of the United States

The Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society is an independent non-profit corporation devoted to preserving, studying and sharing information about all aspects of the former Santa Fe Railway, from its rich history and fascinating operations to its distinctive equipment and facilities