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[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Over the years we have been to a lot of train museums.

Some of our favorites are Cumbres & Toltec in Chama

in New Mexico. Durango & Silverton in Durango Colorado.

Sierra Railway in Jamestown Ca. The now gone Westside

& Cherry Valley east of Sonora Ca.

The trolley museum in Rio Vista Ca..

There are a lot of rail museums across the country.

All deserve a check out.

Thanks for the info on the Northern Nevada Museum.

Driven past but never stopped.

Frank

[rubberlegs]

Speaking of trains, the Golden Spike National Historic site in Utah is really cool. I really like the nearby area where there are two side-by-side railroad beds where the two lines raced past each other, trying to get the most miles. It's not a "small town" museum though, there's hardly anything else there.

Edited by rubberlegs, 24 May 2021 - 07:59 PM.

[buckland]

Not sure this is even in a 'town'.... but it is quaint

and the history of the area is remarkable

https://www.nps.gov/grpo/index.htm

Grand portage!!

[CougarCouple]

Overton NV has a cool small museum worth a stop and see if your close by. Also dispersed camping with a vista of Lake Mead are close by. Sugars bar and restaurant is there if your hungry.


https://lostcitymuse...ts-collections/


Russ

[ckent323]

Frank,

 

I have operated my narrow gauge railroad motorcar (speeder) on both the Durango and Silverton and Cumbres and Toltec railroads multiple times.  I agree that they are wonderful living museums.

Edited by ckent323, 31 May 2021 - 08:14 AM.

[ckent323]

I just remembered the Calvert Marine Musum in Solomons, MD.  It is a fantastic small marine museum.  I have been several times and always enjoyed going there during my buiness trips to the Goddard Sapce Flight Center our vacation trips to the Washington D.C. area.

https://www.calvertm...tor-Information

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Frank,

 

I have operated my narrow gauge railroad motorcar (speeder) on both the Durango and Silverton and Cumbres and Toltec railroads multiple times.  I agree that they are wonderful living museums.

That would be a great ride.We really enjoyed our trips there.

Even if we don't ride the "rails" just walking around observing the equipment is fun.

I really enjoy watching those standard gauge locos converted to narrow gauge

moving along the rails.

 

Thanks for the info.

Frank

[Elken]

Owyhee County Museum 'Outpost Days' to start this Saturday

For anyone interested in checking it out...

 

 

https://www.kivitv.c...4J7P57k-VG-IXhw

[Foy]

Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, Montana.  First visited in 1975 as a 19 year-old geology student working on a nearby dinosaur fossil excavation. Ekalaka isn't at the end of the world, but if you climb a fencepost, you can see it from there.

 

Hardly a small town, but Newport News, VA is home to the Mariner's Museum.  The recovered portions of USS Monitor are being preserved there, and there's a full scale mock up just outside of the facility.

 

Another great one, again very much not a small town museum, is the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.  It's so large, they built an underground addition to house U-505, a German sub captured late in WWII.  The whole U-505 exhibit is extraordinary.

 

Foy

[DavidGraves]

The St Francis Motorcycle Museum....in......St Francis, KS, USA.

 

A world class collection of very significant bikes in a true small Kansas town.....