156 Twin City Model Railroad Museum - Early RR Films 1950 - Railroads and Railroad Employees

This film in this video was taken by a former member of the Twin City Model Railroad Museum who worked for railroads in Minnesota
He took these 8 mm films of the Trains and of the Railroad Employees that he worked with in the early 1950s
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Visit the Twin City Model Railroad Museum
The current address is
668 Transfer Road - Suite 8
St. Paul Minnesota 55114 6
51-647-9628
www.tcmrm.org/
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HOURS
Saturday 10AM - 5 PM
Sunday 12 PM - 5 PM
Monday 10 AM - 3 PM
Friday 10 AM - 3PM
Special Trains operate on certain Saturdays and other days throughout the year
- These Special Events include:
Night Trains
Circus Trains (April and September)
Military Trains (in May - around Memorial Day)
Spooky Trains (in October - around Halloween )
Holiday Trains with Night Trains
runs November through the end of February
Please check website and make a reservation as space is sometimes limited.
www.tcmrm.org/
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Night Trains® season is a special Holidays tradition at the Twin City Model Railroad Museum. Night Trains runs from October 2023 through February 2024.
See List of Night Trains Dates Below
What is Night Trains? The museum’s collection of model trains of all scales and toy trains of yesteryear come alive throughout the Museum (Sorry, no real trains to board and ride on!). Night Trains Season magic begins as the lights are turned down and the buildings and street lights glow warmly, setting the scene for specially lighted models of operating vintage passenger trains. The make believe towns are buried in snow and holiday decorations are set up all over the towns. Uniquely decorated trains will run on the layouts and special holiday-only layouts will also be on display.
Night Trains will run:
Saturday - February 3
Saturday - February 6
Saturday - February 10
Saturday - February 17
Saturday - February 24
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Trains and Equipment in the Video
Oliver Iron Mining - Alco S-4 cow and calf switcher pulling dump cars near an iron ore mine
Duluth Missabe & Iron Range - 2-10-2 steam locomotive switching an ore car yard
A Fairmont Speeder with employees on the DM&IR
A large dragline removing overburden and iron ore at one of the mines
A large truck is shown taking ore out of the mine
A self-propelled the Bucyrus Erie maintenance crane pulling a gondola on the Great Northern
The view from a caboose on a DM&IR ore train going to the ore tipple to fill the ore cars
DM&IR - 2-8-0 steam locomotive switching cars
Great Northern GR-9 Diesel Electric in Northeast Minnesota
Great Northern F-7s pulling a freight
The engineer climbing into the cab of a Great Northern locomotive prepares to pull a freight train
The Great Northern is delivering a Chicago & NorthWestern trailer on a flat car in Northeast Minnesota RR officials were there so it probably was one of the first TOCF deliveries
They then inspected the trailer unloading operation
Great Northern 2-6-8-0 Class M-1 steam locomotive (built in 1910) switching ore cars in a yard - Northeast Minnesota
The 2-6-8-0 steam locomotive was unique to the Great Northern Ry - these locos were very successful and ran for many years in iron ore service in Minnesota - this loco is over 40 years old!
The engine is shown near the Mesabi Ore Mine
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The Twin City Model Railroad Museum has many of different types of trains, buildings and other models - of all sizes.
There are many different model gauges and scales including:
O Scale - the internationally renowned O Scale layout
G - Garden - about 1/24th
Standard Gauge -1/32nd
O Scale - 1/48th - Lionel Trains
LEGO Scale - 1/55th
S Scale - 1/64th - American Flyer
Trains OO Scale 1/72nd
HO Scale - 1/87th
N Scale 1/ 160th
Z scale - 1/220th
Toy trains are also represented from different manufacturers including:
Lionel
American Flyer
LGB
Märklin
Marx
Hornby and others
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The Children's Area has many different layouts for the girls and boys to operate as well as work tables to create and build models
There is a LEGO Work Area and Thomas the Tank Trains to run as well.
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Music by Jo Stafford
The Museum would like to thank the artists and musicians for their work that is used in the videos on this Channel.
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