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Massachusetts - Chatham Railroad Museum
Chatham, MA - The Chatham Railroad Museum is located in the beautifully restored 1887 railroad depot that served Chatham residents and visitors for nearly fifty years. Featuring an architectural style called Railroad Gothic, the building contains hundreds of exhibits and the New York Central model locomotives used at the 1939 New York World's Fair. The museum is child friendly and includes a 1910 restored wood caboose available for children and adults to explore.
The museum is open from mid-June to mid-September
Info: URL: http://www.chathamrailroadmuseum.com/ (Added: 30-Oct-2016)
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Massachusetts - Friends of Bedford Depot Park
Bedford, MA - Friends of Bedford Depot Park was incorporated in January 1995 as a non-profit (501-C-3) organization. It now has over 250 members throughout the country. The group is: Helping the Town establish Bedford Depot Park at the Minuteman Bikeway terminus; Restoring vintage Boston & Maine Railroad Rail Diesel Car #6211 for static display and Researching and preserving the history of the narrow-gauge Billerica & Bedford Railroad and the B&M's former Lexington and Reformatory Branches.
Info: URL: http://www.bedforddepot.org/ (Added: 10-Feb-2001)
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Michigan - Flushing Area Historical Society
Flushing, MI - The Flushing Depot was built in 1888 and provided passenger service until 1971. In 1975 it was converted to the "Depot Restaurant," but in 1980 a fire gutted the building leaving only the outside walls standing. In February 1984 the former owners donated the remains of the building to the Flushing Area Historical Society. Under the leadership of Paul Wightman, fund raisers, private donations and grants from the Community Development Block Grants and Michigan Equity Funds provided money for restoration. The Depot was restored to its former appearance and opened as the Flushing Area Museum and Cultural Center on June 7, 1997.
Flushing Historical Society Endowment Trust. In 2000, the Flushing Area Historical Society established an Irrevocable Endowment Trust to continue improving the museum and educational programs. The Historical Society Board of Directors implemented the Flushing Historical Society Endowment Trust.
Our Mission...
"To collect, acquire, preserve and interpret the history and cultural development of the area in and around Flushing, Michigan. The Historical Society shall maintain the historical integrity of the Flushing Depot and operate the facility as a museum and cultural center, using exhibits, publications and educational programs as the focus of its activities; as a repository for archival materials, a conduit for research of local history and genealogy, and provide educational materials and information about America's past."
Info: URL: http://flushinghistorical.org/index.html (Added: 13-Nov-2016)
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Michigan - Greenfield Village Railroad Junction
Dearborn, MI - Greenfield Village Railroad Junction. Come inside the great history of railroading, an unforgettable display of America's early industrial muscle. Our operating steam-powered rail line and an 1800s small-town train depot take you inside the great history of railroading and let you investigate the only working late 19th century roundhouse in the Midwest. Discover the mighty role railroads played in the progress of America's cross-continental expansion.
Greenfield Village is a vast outdoor museum spread across more than 80 acres, a place where America's past feels like right now. Located in Dearborn, just outside of Detroit, Michigan; there are 83 authentic historic structures, from the lab where Thomas Edison gave the world light to the workshop where the Wright Brothers gave us wings and the building where Abraham Lincoln practiced law. Visit the home where Noah Webster wrote the first American dictionary and the farmhouse where Henry Ford grew up.
Info: URL: https://www.thehenryford.org/visit/greenfield-village/districts/railroad-junction/ (Added: 16-Dec-2016)
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Michigan - Houghton County Historical Museum
Lake Linden, MI - The Houghton County Historical Museum Complex in Lake Linden was once the site of the largest copper milling operation in North America. Today, it is home to our Museum, and also to the Lake Linden & Torch Lake Railroad, the one room Traprock Valley School House, the WPA era Leo Chaput Log Cabin and the Perl Merrill Research Center (which is our archives and genealogical facility). The HCHS Heritage Center, a former Congregational Church building built in 1887, is just around the corner.
We are located on M-26 in Lake Linden, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The Museum building offers three floors of exhibits of local Copper Country mining, logging and cultural history. Included among the outdoor exhibits is a working Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. train with a 3' gauge Porter steam engine that was used to transport various materials at their mill and smelter sites. The steam train is now used for passenger tours and interpretation of the milling operation.
Info: URL: http://www.houghtonhistory.org/ (Added: 2-Dec-2016)
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Michigan - Michigan Central Station
Detroit, MI - Nothing symbolizes Detroit's grandiose rise and spectacular fall like Michigan Central Station. No other building exemplifies just how much the automobile gave to the city of Detroit — and how much it took away.
For 75 years, the depot shipped Detroiters off to war, brought them home, took them on vacation and sent them off to visit Grandma. It was Detroit's Ellis Island, where many generations of Detroiters first stepped foot into the city for factory jobs. It was filled with the sounds of hellos and goodbyes, panting locomotives and screeching wheeled steel. But for nearly twenty-five years now, it has been a place for vandals, thrill-seekers, junkies and the homeless. The only sounds to be heard are the hissing of cans of spray paint, the clicks and whirs of camera shutters and the slow drips of water through holes in the roof. Wind whistling through broken windows has replaced the deep-throated whistles of trains.
Info: URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Central_Station (Added: 30-Sep-2000)
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Michigan - Saginaw Railway Museum
Saginaw, MI - The Saginaw Valley Railroad Historical Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in 1982 to preserve and display to the public, artifacts and information which is significant to the history of American railroading.
This Historical Society is headquartered in the Saginaw Railway Museum, a restored 1907 Pere Marquette depot that stood in Hemlock, Michigan until it was moved to Saginaw in 1983.
There is an HO scale model train display in the basement, operated by the Society.
Info: URL: https://www.facebook.com/saginawrailwaymuseum/ (Added: 31-Dec-2006)
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