Lake Superior Railroad Museum

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The Lake Superior Railroad Museum (reporting mark LSRX) 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 Art Institute, Duluth Playhouse, the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, and the Saint Louis County Historical Society.


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Museum Collection

Steam Locomotives

Electric Locomotives

Diesel Locomotives

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.
  • Burlington Northern Steam Powered Wrecker #D161 - Built 1915
  • Northern Pacific Wedge Snowplow #19 - Built 1907
  • Northern Pacific Steam Powered Wrecker #38 - Built 1913

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