LSRM offers Behind the Scenes Video Tours on YouTube

By Ken Buehler

The railroad story about bottled water joins segments on TV dinners, the necessity for time zones, drinking games and inventions by women and Blacks that started on the railroad and changed America. There are also detailed episodes on every single piece of equipment in the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. They can be found on our YouTube channel. All because we had nothing else to do.

COVID closed the museum for a total of eight months. During that time videographer and Station Master Josh Miller and I recorded over 150 three- to seven-minute stories about artifacts in the museum and the interesting stories they evoke. Viewed over a million times and monetized by YouTube, we consider ourselves small time Train Influencers.

We don’t dance, show videos of cats, blow stuff up or tell you how to fix your Apple Ipad at home on the kitchen table using a screwdriver and a fork. These are fun, and sometimes funny, informative train stories.

The response to the videos was overwhelming. Parents used them to motivate stay-at-home students by holding up viewing until their homework was done. We got comments and posts from around the world and that led to the highest number of members in the history of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. New ones are still being dropped so tune in often.

We hope you like them and subscribe: www.duluthtrains.com/ videotours