AllAboard–AndWelcome!

By:KenBuehler

There’s something happening here. People are telling stories and stories, to be told in the future, are being made. That happens on a train. You’re remembering your first train ride, your romantic train ride, your memorable experience on the railroad as a passenger, an employee or evoking a family member who was once workin’ on the railroad.

Besides our beautiful Lake Superior scenery, the historic narrative, the comfortable surroundings in classic passenger coaches and the fact that you’re on a train, this is a time machine. You’re being transported back to when the journey and the way you traveled was as important as your destination.

The North Shore Scenic Railroad is proud and honored to bring you this experience. It’s made possible because 40 years ago our founders started the Lake Superior Railroad Museum to preserve, interpret and present to the public the history of railroading, especially as it relates to our area.

A dedicated staff is critical to carrying out this mission. But it is the tens of thousands of hours donated each year by hundreds of volunteers that built the museum and run our railroad. None of this would be possible without volunteers who make up 100 percent of our train crews and do the maintenance and restoration of the rolling stock and museum artifacts.

Volunteers are why this museum was voted by USA Today as the “BEST Transportation Museum in America” and why Better Homes & Gardens ranked our railroad as one of the “Top 10 Family FriendlyScenicRailroadsinNorthAmerica.” These are honors we strive to live up to everyday. As executive director of the Lake Superior RR Museum and general manager of the North Shore Scenic Railroad, thank you for riding with us today.

Happy Railroad Memories!

Ken Buehler, kenbuehler@duluthdepot.org