National Railroad Museum

The National Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, US. Founded in 1956 by community volunteers, the National Railroad Museum is one of the oldest and largest U.S. institutions dedicated to preserving and interpreting the nation's railroad history.
Two years later, a joint resolution of Congress recognized the Museum as the National Railroad Museum. The museum has been a Nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization since 1958.
A museum building houses a wide variety of railroad artifacts, an archive, and photography gallery. A standard gauge track rings the grounds. An 80-foot (24 m) wooden observation tower has views of the Fox River and Green Bay.
As of 2019, the museum was working to raise money to build a roundhouse to surround its current buildings (except the train station) to shelter from the weather the locomotives and cars displayed in the open pavilion.
==List of Exhibits==
;Steam Locomotives:
Number 	Images	Heritage 	Type 	Builder 	Notes
5017 	 	Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 	2-10-4 	Baldwin Locomotive Works 	
24 	 	Lake Superior & Ishpeming 	2-8-0 	American Locomotive Company	
4496 "Dwight D Eisenhower"	 	London & North Eastern Railway 	4-6-2 	Doncaster Works 	
102 	 	Sumter & Choctaw Railroad 	2-8-2 	Baldwin Locomotive Works 	
101 	 	United States Army 	2-8-0 	Baldwin Locomotive Works 	
4017 	 	Union Pacific Railroad 	4-8-8-4	American Locomotive Company	
506 	 	Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 	2-10-2 	American Locomotive Company	
2736 	 	Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 	2-8-4 	 	
5 	 	Ely Thomas Lumber Company 	Shay 	Lima Locomotive Works 	
29 	 	Pullman Company 	0-4-0ST	 	
2718 	 	St. Paul & St. Louis Railroad (Soo Line)	4-6-2 	American Locomotive Company	
;Diesel Locomotives:
Number	Images	Heritage 	Type 	Builder 	Notes
106 	 	Southern Pacific 	ALCO S6 	American Locomotive Company	
315 	 	Green Bay and Western Railroad 	ALCO Century 430 	American Locomotive Company	
73 	 	Georgia Pacific Railway 	ALCO S-2 	American Locomotive Company	
2402 	 	Fox River Valley Railroad 	EMD SD24 	Electro-Motive Diesel 	
2 	 	Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad	Aerotrain 	Electro-Motive Diesel 	
1 	 	Ann Arbor Railroad 	ALCO S-3 	American Locomotive Company	
D538 	 	Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway 	EMD NW1 	Electro-Motive Diesel 	
715 	 	Wisconsin Central Ltd. 	EMD GP30 	Electro-Motive Diesel 	
106 	 	United States Army 	GE 44-ton switcher	General Electric 	
8651 	 	United States Army 	ALCO RSD-1 	American Locomotive Company	
1563 	 	Wisconsin Central Ltd. 	EMD SW1500 	Electro-Motive Diesel 	
737 	 	Milwaukee Road 	FM H-10-44 	Fairbanks-Morse 	
 	 	 	 	 	
; Electric Locomotives:
Number	Images	Heritage 	Type	Builder 	Notes
4890 	 	Pennsylvania Railroad	GG1 	Altoona Works	
; Former Locomotives:
Number 	Images	Heritage 	Type 	Builder 	Notes
Milwaukee Road No. 261	 	Milwaukee Road	4-8-4	American Locomotive Company	
==Trivia==
*The museum hosts an annual Day Out with Thomas event, where Thomas the Tank Engine pulls young friends past the exhibited rolling stock; and in October, "Terror on the Fox": Green Bay Preble Optimist Club's haunted attraction that includes "haunted" train rides after dark.
**In 1996 the Green Bay National Railroad Museum unveiled the first ever American built Thomas replica in December. The small Thomas replica looked very offputting and innaccurate, but was used for DOWT events until 2002, when Strasburg's dummy Thomas counterparts took over the role. The engine was put away in storage until sometime later (presice date is unknown, but sometime before 2010) Hit Entertainment found out about this Thomas and ordered for it to be destroyed. The face was removed as well as the smokebox and the engine currently sits in the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA. When it is at the museum, it is stored in the Victor McCormick Train Pavilion. The engine itself is disassembled but the remains of the shell can be found on "display". It is worth noting that bits and pieces of this "Dead Thomas" are slowly being removed.
*The Frederick J. Lenfesty Center, an enclosed and climate-controlled structure was recently added that houses several of the unique and rarer locomotives and cars.
*The museum's archives hold corporate records and documents, annual reports, maps, mechanical and engineering drawings, oral histories, and ephemera. The holdings represent various railroad companies, labor unions, and fraternal organizations.
*Its library holds works on the social, economic, political, and cultural aspects of U.S. railroading history.
*The National Railroad Museum holds over 5,000 artifacts, including textiles, uniforms, tools and personal items.
*Its photograph collection includes 15,000 photographic prints, slides, and film negatives of U.S. railroading since 1890.
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