Mid-Continent Railway Museum

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The Mid-Continent Railway Museum is a railroad museum in North Freedom, Wisconsin.

Contents 1 Collection 2 Heritage railroad 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Collection

Three steam locomotives are currently under restoration to federal guidelines. The museum has 14 steam and 6 diesel locomotives, and over 100 other pieces of rolling stock. The museum has the largest collection of wooden passenger cars in the United States as well as six of only seven surviving wooden boxcars built by Mather Stock Car Company.

[edit] Heritage railroad

The museum operates a heritage railroad which offers passenger excursion trains on a 7 miles (11 km) round trip, passing through the former mining community of La Rue, Wisconsin. The excursions take approximately 1 hour and operate daily from Mid-May to Labor Day.

Special event train runs are also offered many times throughout the year, including Dinner Trains, Autumn Color weekends in the fall, Pumpkin Special runs near Halloween, Santa Express Weekends at the end of November, and the Snow Train in February.

[edit] See also

• List of heritage railroads in the United States

[edit] External links

• Museum's website