Transport museums

The ASVi is a tramway museum in Thuin in Belgium, which specialises in the history of the Belgian narrow gauge Vicinal system. The museum includes an operating museum tram line which runs from Thuin to Lobbes. ...more on Wikipedia about "ASVi museum"

Opened in Baltimore on 2 July, 1953, the B&O Railroad Museum is located at the historic site of the B&O Railroad's Mt. Clare Shops. Mount Clare is considered to be the birthplace of American railroading. The museum houses collections of 19th- and 20th-century artifacts related to America's railroads. The collection includes 250 pieces of railroad rolling stock, 15,000 artifacts, 5000 cubic feet (140 m³) of archival material, four significant nineteenth-century buildings, including the historic roundhouse, and a mile of track, considered the most historic mile of railroad track in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "B&O Railroad Museum"

The Baltimore Streetcar Museum is a non-profit museum, dedicated to preserving Baltimore's public transportation history, especially the street railway era . ...more on Wikipedia about "Baltimore Streetcar Museum"

Bandana Square is a small enclosed shopping center in the Energy Park industrial park in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It includes a Holiday Inn Express hotel and conference center and the Twin City Model Railroad Club museum, as well as a few restaurants. It was a conversion of early twentieth century railroad buildings (the Northern Pacific Como Shops) in 1984, and was intended to be a festival marketplace, though it was never especially successful, and so classifies as a dead mall. The Minnesota Children's Museum moved from Bandana Square to downtown Saint Paul in 1995, taking with it many visitors. The site is in the National Register of Historic Places. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bandana Square"

The Bergische Museumsbahn is a heritage tram museum situated in the German city of Wuppertal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bergische Museumsbahn"

The Bluegrass Railroad and Museum is a heritage railway in Versailles, Kentucky, United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bluegrass Railroad and Museum"

The Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad is a heritage railway operating out of Boone, Iowa. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad"

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Brisbane Tramway Museum is a transport museum which preserves and displays trams and trolley-buses, most of which operated in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The museum also has a collection of vehicles and other equipment used in maintaining Brisbane's electric street transport system (which operated from 1897 to 1969). The Museum is located at Ferny Grove, a north-west suburb of Brisbane. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brisbane Tramway Museum"

The Cable Car Museum is a museum, situated in San Francisco, California. It contains historical and explanatory exhibits on the San Francisco cable car system, which can itself be regarded as a working museum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cable Car Museum"

The California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento is a tribute to the role of the " iron horse" in connecting California to the rest of the nation. ...more on Wikipedia about "California State Railroad Museum"

The Canadian Museum of Rail Travel is in Cranbrook, British Columbia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canadian Museum of Rail Travel"

The Canadian Railway Museum ( French: (le) musée ferrovaire canadien) is a transport museum in Saint-Constant, Quebec that has the largest collection of railway equipment (140 railway vehicles) in Canada. There are also over 250,000 objects and documents. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canadian Railway Museum"

The Cobb and Co. Museum is located in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cobb & Co Museum"

The Colorado Railroad Museum is a non-profit heritage railway established in 1959 to preserve for future generations a tangible record of Colorado's flamboyant railroad era, particularly the state's pioneering narrow gauge mountain railroads. ...more on Wikipedia about "Colorado Railroad Museum"

Founded in 1940, the Connecticut Trolley Museum is the oldest incorporated museum dedicated to electric railroading in the United States. It is located in East Windsor, Connecticut and operates a 2 mile tourist railway over the original right-of-way of the Hartford and Springfield Street Railway Company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Connecticut Trolley Museum"

The Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum, in the University Circle area of Cleveland, Ohio, is part of the Western Reserve Historical Society, and was founded by industrialist Frederick Crawford of TRW. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum"

The Danbury Railway Museum is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to operate a railway museum in Danbury, Connecticut to educate the public as to the history of railroading and the role of the railroads as part of our local and national heritage. ...more on Wikipedia about "Danbury Railway Museum"

The Deutsches Museum is one of the world's largest museums of technology and science. It is based in Munich. There are about 1.3 million visitors each year. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deutsches Museum"

The Finnish Railway Museum (Finnish: "Suomen Rautatiemuseo") is located in Hyvinkää. It was originally founded in 1898 and located in Helsinki. It was moved to Hyvinkää in 1974. ...more on Wikipedia about "Finnish Railway Museum"

The Galesburg Railroad Museum, located in Galesburg, Illinois, has a 1930 locomotive, a Pullman car and other exhibits. ...more on Wikipedia about "Galesburg Railroad Museum"

Glenreagh Mountain Railway known as the GMR, was established in 1989 as a heritage tourist railway at Glenreagh, near Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. GMR's objective is to restore and operate a heritage tourist railway on the Glenreagh to Ulong section of the Glenreagh to Dorrigo railway line. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glenreagh Mountain Railway"

The Golden Gate Railroad Museum is a non-profit heritage railway established in 1975 and dedicated to the preservation of steam and passenger railroad equipment, and the interpretation of local railroad history. ...more on Wikipedia about "Golden Gate Railroad Museum"

The Heber Valley Historic Railroad (HVRR), based in Heber, Utah, is a heritage railway dating from 1899. The line operates between Heber City and Vivian Park which is located in Provo Canyon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Heber Valley Historic Railroad"

The Historic Railroad Shops, constructed in the mid 1800s, are located in Savannah, Georgia. They are a National Historic Landmark. ...more on Wikipedia about "Historic Railroad Shops"

The Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) is the United States's largest railway museum. Granted tax-exempt status in 1957, the mission of the Museum is to demonstrate the vital role railroads have played in the growth of the Chicago area as well as the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Illinois Railway Museum"

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