Welcome to Mid-Continent Railway Museum
Mid-Continent is an outdoor living history museum and operating railroad recreating, preserving, and interpreting the small town/shortline way of life from the “Golden Age of Railroading.”
Book Your Tickets for Our 2025 Season!
Mid-Continent Railway Museum’s 2025 operating season is nearly here!
Aside from our regularly scheduled train rides and museum hours, we have many exciting new and returning special events planned in 2025.
- Grab a slice aboard the Pizza Limited, taking place during the Freedom Days village festival.
- Take a guided tour of the engine house, available during this year’s Stars & Stripes Special weekend.
- The popular and family-friendly Root Beer Float Flyer, Harvest Flyer, and Holiday Flyer trains have returned with drinks and light snacks served aboard the train.
- The all-new Harvest Happy Hour and Holiday Nightcap Trains provide a fun twist on Mid-Continent’s beverage trains for passengers 21 and over.
The museum will be open and train rides offered on Saturdays and Sundays, May 17th through June 16th, plus open for Memorial Day.
Starting on June 17th, the museum will be open, and rides offered 6 days a week (closed Mondays) through Labor Day. After Labor Day, the schedule returns to Saturdays and Sundays into the fall, including our ever-popular Autumn Color Weekends and Pumpkin Special rides.
Museum News and Info
Help Bring C&NW #1385 Home Again
The restoration of Chicago & North Western #1385, Mid-Continent’s signature locomotive, has been taking place at a shop contractor facility near Madison, WI. Their part of the work is nearing completion and it will soon be time to bring 1385 home to Mid-Continent, but your help is needed! Read more…
Restoration Underway on the Oldest Surviving Electro-Motive Motor Car
Restoration work on the Great Northern #2313 gasoline-electric motor car (a.k.a. Montana Western #31) is underway. Learn more…
Gift Cards Available
Giving the gift of Mid‑Continent just got easier. Gift cards can be purchased online in any dollar amount and are valid toward any train or tour Mid-Continent operates. Find out more…
Get Involved
Mid-Continent Railway Museum would not be possible without our volunteers and members. You too can participate in keeping America’s railroad history alive by volunteering or becoming a museum member.
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