Want more of the railroad museum?

LSRM offers Behind the Scenes Video Tours on YouTube

By Ken Buehler

The Minnesota railroad story about the invention of bottled water joins segments on trains and TV dinners, the necessity for time zones, drinking games and inventions by women and Blacks that started on the railroads and changed America. There are also detailed episodes on every single piece of equipment in the collection of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. You can view over 150 of these Behind the Scenes Video Tours on our YouTube channel. We produced them because there was nothing else to do.

When COVID closed the world, the Lake Superior Railroad Museum closed too. With nothing to do for eight months, we went Hollywood.

Videographer and Station Master Josh Miller and I filmed and produced a series of five- to seven-minute segments featuring railroad history, train stories and interesting links between railroads and everyday life. We dropped a new one every single day the museum was closed, which is why there are so many. Who knew COVID would last that long?

They have been viewed over a million and a half times and monetized by YouTube, which makes us small time Train Influencers.

We don’t dance, show cat videos, blow stuff up or tell you how to fix your Apple iPad at home on the kitchen table using a screwdriver, Elmer’s glue and a soup spoon. These are fun and sometimes funny train stories.

They were motivators for parents who were homeschooling their children. The youngsters could watch each day’s episode ONLY after they completed their lessons. We received comments and posts from around the world, which led to the highest number of members in the museum’s history.

New ones are still coming out. Go to www.duluthtrains.com/videotours to watch every episode. We hope you like them.