187 - Twin City Model Railroad Museum - Passenger Trains - Twin Cities & across North America 1975

This video is from 8mm films taken in 1975.
It starts with Amtrak trains in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota and then goes across the US and Canada.
The final scene shows the CP Royal Hudson Steam Locomotive running near Vancouver BC.
A list of trains in the video is shown below.
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If you and your family would like to see trains like these operate -
Please Visit the Twin City Model Railroad Museum
Open every Friday Saturday Sunday and Monday
The Regular Museum hours are
Friday 10 AM - 3 PM
Saturday 10AM - 5 PM
Sunday 12 PM - 5 PM
Monday 10 AM - 3 PM
NIGHT TRAINS
Night Trains will run on special days in 2024 - please check the website
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www.tcmrm.org/
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The Museum is located on Transfer Road (Cleveland Ave) near University Avenue next to the old Amtrak Station.
The address is 668 Transfer Road - Suite 8
St. Paul Minnesota 55114 USA
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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, scales and sizes - including:
O Scale - the internationally renowned O Scale layout - 1/48th
G - Garden - about 1/24th
Standard Gauge -1/32nd
O Scale - 1/48th - Lionel Trains
LEGO Gauge - approx. 1/50th
S Scale - 1/64th - American Flyer Trains
OO Scale 1/72nd
HO Scale - 1/87th
OOO Scale - 1/152nd
N Scale 1/ 160th
Z scale - 1/220th.
Toy trains are also represented from different manufacturers including:
Lionel,
American Flyer,
Märklin
Marx
Hornby
and others
There are also exhibits that show the various scales side by side - for comparision - inlcuding the International Train Display at the rear of the Museum.
The Children's Area has many different layouts for the girls and boys to operate as well as work tables where they can create and build models and run wooden trains. There is a LEGO Work Area and Thomas the Tank Trains to run as well.
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The Trains
The video starts with Amtrak trains in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota.
The first is No. 7/27 Empire Builder heading North from the old Minneapolis Station on the former NP Line to NE Minneapolis.
No. 8/28 follows in St. Paul on its way to Chicago.
The next series shows Amtrak trains on the former Pennsylvania RR Four Track Main in Princeton, New Jersey.
An Amtrak Local Passenger pulls off the center Express track to the outside local track to stop at Princeton Station. Some railfans have noted that before Amtrak it was impossible to make a GG-1 Electric Locomotive look ugly, but Amtrak showed how it could be done.
Several trains with former PC and Pennsy MU Cars arrive from Princeton University.
A Penn Central freight passes on its way to New York City with a locomotive consist of - GP-38 / GP-40 / GP-40 / GP-35.
An Amtrak Passenger passes at speed on the center Express track.
An Amtrak Passenger train with a PC GG-1 passes at speed on the center Express track. Railfans also noted that Penn Central ran a close second to making the GG-1 Electric Locomotive look ugly - as shown.
The Southern Railway’s Crescent is next, shown running near Meridian, Mississippi with locomotives - E-8A / E-8A / FP-7A / E-8A.
Southern, Rock Island and the Rio Grande elected to not join Amtrak in 1971, so they had to continue to run their own passenger trains for some years.
Next a passenger train passes in St. Paul - it is likely the Hiawatha Minneapolis to Chicago train that ran on days that the North Coast Hiawatha did not run. The train had an AMT SDP-40F / E-8B consist.
No. 7/27 Empire Builder follows with an F-40 / SDP-40F / SDP-40F / consist. It is heading West on the Stone Arch Bridge into the old Minneapolis Station.
Two more No. 7/27 Empire Builders with SDP-40F / SDP-40F consists are shown in St. Paul.
The video ends with the Canadian Pacific Steam Train with a Royal Hudson 4-6-4 steam locomotive. The train ran from North Vancouver to Squamish British Columbia.
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The Museum would like to thank Rich Tubbesing of the National Railway Historical Society Northstar Chapter for editing the video.
Rich also added sound and text which greatly enhance the video.
The National Railway Historical Society works to preserve the history of railroads.
The North Star Chapter, located in the Twin Cities, meets each month to view slides and movies of trains and also does a number of trips each year.
Currently, the Chapter is meeting each month in person and via Zoom.
www.northstar-n...
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