Features – Southeastern Railway Museum

The Marco Polo Has Arrived at the Southeastern Railway Museum

November 14, 2020 Southeastern Railway Museum

Norfolk Southern delivered the historic Marco Polo Pullman car to the Southeastern Railway Museum. […]

Norfolk Southern gifting historic Marco Polo railcar to Southeastern Railway Museum

November 9, 2020 Southeastern Railway Museum

Norfolk Southern Corporation is gifting the historic Marco Polo rail car, a car President Franklin D. Roosevelt used while in office, to the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia. The Pullman Company built the Marco […]

Vintage park train undergoes a complete engine overhaul

September 21, 2020 Todd

The Southeastern Railway Museum has removed its 1957 vintage park train from service as its primary operating locomotive’s engine undergoes a complete engine overhaul. The museum shipped the historic locomotive engine to Industrial Engine Rebuilders in […]

Historic Pullman car reopens at Southeastern Railway Museum following interior renovation

June 22, 2020 Todd

The Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth has reopened a historic Pullman car that transported the body of President Warren G. Harding after he died in 1923 following an interior renovation. […]

Museum Reopens from Covid19

June 1, 2020 Randy Pirkle

The past few months have been trying for all of us. We hope you and your family are in good health and beginning to explore our new routines as we navigate the uncertainty of life […]

Covid19/Coronavirus Updates

May 19, 2020 Randy Pirkle

The museum managers and volunteers have started building task lists and timelines that we believe will lead to reopening the museum at a point later than Memorial Day. This planning includes: Visitor traffic flow changes […]

Southeastern Railway Museum cancels all events and operations through at least May 15

March 19, 2020 Todd

The Southeastern Railway Museum is canceling all events and operations until at least May 15 in response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. […]

Southeastern Railway Museum Hosting Steak Cook-Off on June 20

February 12, 2020 Southeastern Railway Museum

The museum will be open for its regular museum hours (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) during the cook-off. Teams participating in the event will start setting up at 8 a.m. […]