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| Edwardsville Childrens Museum | A modular wooden railway will debut at ECM’s newly restored Nickel Plate Station the last weekend of March 2022. The layout is the fifth modular wooden railway built in Seattle and donated to introduce model railroading in a format tailored for families with children through elementary school. It features 172' of track including 90 turnouts, 17 crossovers and 12 bumpers, scale buildings, durable trees, custom rolling stock and details common to N- and HO-scale dioramas (just far more rugged). Similar railways reside in Wilton (ME), Wilmington (NC), Spokane (WA) and Seattle (WA) with a custom tile railway in London (UK).
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| Illinois Railway Museum | Originally formed to preserve one important piece of rolling stock, it has evolved into an educational and historic preservation organization recreating possibly the largest operating demonstration railroad showcase on the North American continent.
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| John W. Barriger, III Railroad Library at UMSL | A special collection of the St. Louis Mercantile Library, the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library stands today as one of North America's largest and finest railroad history collections. The Library is major resource for the history of railroad business and technology as well as for the study of railroading's influence on the American economy, society and culture.
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| Monticello Railway Museum | The Monitcello Railway Museum is an all-volunteer organization in central Illinois with an operational railroad yard open to the public. They collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit materials and artifacts from throughout the fascinating history of trains and railroading.
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| Paducah Railroad Museum | The Paducah Chapter, NRHS, hopes that the museum and its collections will continue to grow and bring pleasant memories to both the older and younger generations of the railroads’ rich heritage of both the Paducah area and nation.
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| St. Louis Museum of Transportation | Located on over 40 acres, the Museum is approximately 16 miles southwest of downtown St. Louis, on a site which includes one of the two first man-made railroad tunnels west of the Mississippi River. The Museum site also features more than four miles of switching and exhibition track. Additionally, the Museum houses a nationally acclaimed research library of transportation-related memorabilia and documents.
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