Favorite Small Town Museum ?

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Over the years we have been to a lot of train museums.
Some of our favorites are Cumbres & Toltec in Chama
in New Mexico. Durango & Silverton in Durango Colorado.
Sierra Railway in Jamestown Ca. The now gone Westside
& Cherry Valley east of Sonora Ca.
The trolley museum in Rio Vista Ca..
There are a lot of rail museums across the country.
All deserve a check out.
Thanks for the info on the Northern Nevada Museum.
Driven past but never stopped.
Frank

 

[rubberlegs]

Speaking of trains, the Golden Spike National Historic site in Utah is really cool. I really like the nearby area where there are two side-by-side railroad beds where the two lines raced past each other, trying to get the most miles. It's not a "small town" museum though, there's hardly anything else there.

 

[buckland]

Not sure this is even in a 'town'.... but it is quaint
and the history of the area is remarkable
https://www.nps.gov/grpo/index.htm
Grand portage!!

 

[CougarCouple]

Overton NV has a cool small museum worth a stop and see if your close by. Also dispersed camping with a vista of Lake Mead are close by. Sugars bar and restaurant is there if your hungry.


https://lostcitymuseum.org/exhibits-collections/


Russ

 

[ckent323]

Frank,

I have operated my narrow gauge railroad motorcar (speeder) on both the Durango and Silverton and Cumbres and Toltec railroads multiple times. I agree that they are wonderful living museums.

 

[ckent323]

I just remembered the Calvert Marine Musum in Solomons, MD. It is a fantastic small marine museum. I have been several times and always enjoyed going there during my buiness trips to the Goddard Sapce Flight Center our vacation trips to the Washington D.C. area.

https://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/27/Visitor-Information

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Frank,

I have operated my narrow gauge railroad motorcar (speeder) on both the Durango and Silverton and Cumbres and Toltec railroads multiple times. I agree that they are wonderful living museums.

That would be a great ride.We really enjoyed our trips there.
Even if we don't ride the "rails" just walking around observing the equipment is fun.
I really enjoy watching those standard gauge locos converted to narrow gauge
moving along the rails.

Thanks for the info.
Frank

 

[Elken]

Owyhee County Museum 'Outpost Days' to start this Saturday
For anyone interested in checking it out...


https://www.kivitv.com/news/owyhee-county-museum-outpost-days-to-start-saturday?fbclid=IwAR23VG-CzixpiGi-ogV5jDH67rPyPja_WxmMA0BEIcE84J7P57k-VG-IXhw

 

[Foy]

Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, Montana. First visited in 1975 as a 19 year-old geology student working on a nearby dinosaur fossil excavation. Ekalaka isn't at the end of the world, but if you climb a fencepost, you can see it from there.

Hardly a small town, but Newport News, VA is home to the Mariner's Museum. The recovered portions of USS Monitor are being preserved there, and there's a full scale mock up just outside of the facility.

Another great one, again very much not a small town museum, is the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. It's so large, they built an underground addition to house U-505, a German sub captured late in WWII. The whole U-505 exhibit is extraordinary.

Foy

 

[DavidGraves]

The St Francis Motorcycle Museum....in......St Francis, KS, USA.

A world class collection of very significant bikes in a true small Kansas town.....