Lake Superior Railroad Museum
The Lake Superior Railroad Museum is a railroad museum in Duluth, Minnesota, United States.
The museum has seven steam, 14 diesel, and two electric locomotives; and more than 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 Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Number 227, a 2-8-8-4 "Yellowstone" locomotive that was among the largest steam engines to operate.
The museum operates a heritage railroad called the North Shore Scenic Railroad.
The museum is housed in the former Duluth Union Depot, now the Saint Louis County Heritage and Arts Center's Historic Union Depot. 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.Collection
Steam Locomotives
Electric Locomotives
Diesel Locomotives
Diesel Railcars
Passenger Cars
Cabooses
- Burlington Northern #12410
- Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range #C-9
- Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range #C-12
- Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range #C-205
- Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific #76923
- Great Northern #X-452
- Northern Pacific #1311
- Soo Line #1
- Soo Line #99017
Service & miscellaneous equipment
- Burlington Northern Steam Powered Wrecker #D-161 - Built 1915
- Erie Mining Co. #8440 Pontiac Hy-rail Inspection Car - Built 1957
- Northern Pacific Rotary Snow Plow #2 - Built 1887 by the Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, #2 is the world's oldest surviving rotary snow plow. The museum acquired it in 1975 and it was designated a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark in 2015.
- Northern Pacific Wedge Snowplow #19 - Built 1907
- Northern Pacific Steam Powered Wrecker #38 - Built 1913
- 1920 McGiffert log loader
Former equipment
- Burlington Northern, Dynamometer Car #B10: Sold to the Ironhorse Railroad Park
- Canadian National, Coach #5375: Sold to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum
- Duluth Missabe & Iron Range, Refrigerator Car #7122: Sold to the Mid-Continent Railway Museum
- Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range, EMD SD-M #316: Traded for Northern Pacific #245
- Milwaukee Road, EMD F7B #X1: Sold to the Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad
- Northern States Power Co, EMD SW1 #1364: Given to Rail Legacy Museum, St. Cloud
- Peavey Grain Co, EMD SW1 #1279: Scrapped after engine seized