140 - Twin City Model Railroad Museum - Early Railroad Films B&W Color - Part 1 - Museum Collection

The video is from early 16 mm films taken by Museum member Jim Slocum in 1950
Railroads in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis St Paul, Minnesota USA are shown

The list of trains is below.

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Visit the Twin City Model Railroad Museum
The Museum is next to the old Amtrak Station in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
The current address is
668 Transfer Road - Suite 8
St. Paul Minnesota 55114 6
51-647-9628
https://www.tcmrm.org/
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HOURS

Saturday 10AM – 5 PM

Sunday 12 PM – 5 PM

Monday 10 AM – 3 PM

Friday 10 AM - 3PM

Special Trains operate on certain Saturdays and other days throughout the year
– These Special Events include:
Night Trains
Circus Trains (April and September)
Military Trains (in May - around Memorial Day)
Spooky Trains (in October - around Halloween )
Holiday Trains with Night Trains
runs November through the end of February

Please check website and make a reservation as space is sometimes limited.

https://www.tcmrm.org/

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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 and scales including:

O Scale - the internationally renowned O Scale layout
G - Garden – about 1/24th
Standard Gauge -1/32nd
O Scale – 1/48th - Lionel Trains
LEGO Scale - 1/55th
S Scale – 1/64th – American Flyer
Trains OO Scale 1/72nd
HO Scale – 1/87th
N Scale 1/ 160th
Z scale – 1/220th

Toy trains are also represented from different manufacturers including:
Lionel
American Flyer
LGB
Märklin
Marx
Hornby and others

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The Children's Area has many different layouts for the girls and boys to operate as well as work tables to create and build models

There is a LEGO Work Area and Thomas the Tank Trains to run as well.
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The trains
Rock Island EMD Model TA Loco pulling a passenger train out of the Milwaukee Depot in Minneapolis

Milwaukee Road F-7 4-6-4 Baltic type streamlined steam locomotive pulls out with the Afternoon Hiawatha

Chicago & Northwestern E-6A / E-6A with The 400 departs Eau Claire Wisconsin

Milwaukee Road E-7A / E-7a with the Afternoon Hiawatha pulls across Chestnut Street Interlocking in St Paul headed for the St Paul Union Depot

Soo Line passenger train with a 10-wheeler 4-6-0 goes through Chestnut Street

Milwaukee Road triple header - three steam locomotives work to pull a large freight up the Short line Hill in St Paul

Milwaukee Road 4-4-2 Atlantic Type streamlined steam loco with a passenger train

The next views are from the tower at the St Paul Union Depot
The trackage was complex - many puzzle or four-way switches used to save space
The tracks on the left go up the hill and are Great Northern and Northern Pacific - used by the GN NP C&NW Soo Line and CGW RRs

The tracks to the right are Burlington and Milwaukee headed down river to the East

A Northern Pacific 4-6-2 Pacific Type steam locomotive arrives

A Chicago Great Western 4-6-0 10-Wheeler Type steam loco pulls out with a passenger train - headed to Minneapolis

A Gas-Electric car with a coach leaves next

A Chicago & NorthWestern passenger train comes into the depot with an Omaha 4-6-2 Pacific Type steam loco as another C& NW train leaves

A Northern Pacific A Class Northern Type backs onto a passenger train
Note that the Northern Pacific was the first railroad to use the 4-8-4 hence the name Northern Type - some other railroads used different names - the New York Central Niagaras in the south Dixies or Presidents (RF&P)

An NP passenger train backs into the station

NP GN CB&Q and some other passenger trains had to use the wye to turn around so they would be facing East to leave the Depot for Minneapolis or Chicago

A Northern Pacific local pulls out with a 4-6-0 10-wheeler type steam loco

At this time there were nearly a hundred passenger trains each day going through the St Paul Union Depot
The switch tenders can be seen running around the plant - almost all of the turnouts were manually operated

A C&NW passenger train departs as another train arrives

A Burlington Zephyr streamlined passenger train arrives and departs a bit later


A C&NW passenger train heads east from St Paul

Milwaukee Road steam engines are shown in an engine terminal

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The TCMRM would like to thank the artists for the use of the music
This video has Jo Stafford with songs that she sang in the early 1950s
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