Each year, the United States celebrates National Train Day on the Saturday closest to May 10th. Why? It was then that the first U.S. transcontinental railroad joined the East and West Coasts together permanently by […]
On this day in 1865, Lincoln’s funeral train left Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to head to New York City for its fourth stop. The funeral train was scheduled to spend time in six northern states before arriving […]
The Atlanta Council of Boy Scouts of America together with the Model Railroaders of Atlanta will hold a BSA Railroading Merit Badge Class at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth on Saturday, September 12th. […]
SRM Assistant Librarian Lloyd Neal will make two presentations in April, both focused on railroad history. […]
Inspired by the upcoming sesquicentennial observance of the Golden Spike Ceremony (celebrating the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869), the Georgia Gwinnett College History Discipline is sponsoring a Seminar on American Railroads, March 26-28, 2019 with presentations from the Southeastern Railway Museum. […]
Photo courtesy of Kathryn Parsons Willis Following the Civil War, the railroad was the most important industry that African Americans worked in. In the South, freed slaves had few fates to choose from, among them […]
Join the Antique Typewriter Club and SRM for the second annual typewriter meet-up and type-in! Think: an interactive traveling typewriter exhibit with machines dating back to the 1800s. Fun for the whole family, especially millennials and kids who have never touched a typewriter before! […]
The Antique Typewriter Collectors will share their enthusiasm for typewriters with SRM visitors on Saturday, February 2, 2019. Learn more about how typewriters influenced life on the railroad! […]
The significance of tool car #3558 comes from being a tangible link to a bygone time when the railroads were used to assist the communication industry of the era. […]
Press Release from the Duluth Historical Society Tuesday, August 28, 2018 celebrate and learn with us about our history and your history laid to rest in each of the cities or towns. The Duluth Historical […]
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