railroad museum
Locomotive heritage center
A railroad museum preserves and displays historic trains, locomotives, and railway equipment.
Most feature restored rolling stock visitors can board or ride, along with artifacts documenting rail history: The kids loved climbing into the old caboose at the railroad museum.
Many operate short excursion trains on heritage tracks.
- interactive displaysScreens accepting user input
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- train whistleRail vehicle's horn
- coal tenderTrain car carrying fuel
- diesel engineSparkless internal combustion motor
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railroad museumtrain station
Passenger boarding facility for locomotives
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