Preservation

WCRX MLW S13 502
Waterloo Central Railway (WCRX) MLW S13 502 is working in St. Jacobs Village, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, July 20, 2019. WCRX MLW built S13 502 was reportedly built in 1959 by Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW).

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Preservation and Museums

Typically railroad museums and heritage railroads. This is not including heritage painted locomotives owned by real railroads.

Preservation, Tourist Railroads, Heritage Operations and Museums by name or symbol or location

Anthracite Railroads Historical Society Incorporated (ARHS, ARRX)
The Anthracite Railroads Historical Society Incorporated (ARHS, reporting mark ARRX) reportedly owns several locomotives which include EMD F3 A&B units, an ALCO FA, RS3’s, an ex-LV 50 ft white boxcar, as well as several other pieces of equipment.
Austin & Texas Central (ATCX)
Austin & Texas Central (ATCX) sems to be the operational name and reporting mark of the Austin Steam Train Association (ASTA). The mission of the ASTA is to preserve, interpret and re-create the first-hand experience of historic steam-era railroading for the enjoyment and edification of today’s families and the generations to come. The ASTA operates excursion trains between Cedar Park and Burnet on the Austin Western Railroad (AWRR).
Bay Area Electric Railroad Association (BAERA)
The Bay Area Electric Railroad Association (BAERA) was created in 1946 to foster interest in streetcar, interurban, and mainline electric railroad operations, and to preserve these rapidly vanishing pieces of history. BAERA’s continues its mission to preserve the regional heritage of electric railway transportation as a living resource for the benefit of present and future generations through the operation of the Western Railway Museum on Route 12 in Solano County.
California State Railroad Museum (CSRM)
The California State Railroad Museum is a museum in the state park system of California, United States, interpreting the role of the "iron horse" in connecting California to the rest of the nation. It is located in Old Sacramento State Historic Park at 111 I Street, Sacramento. In 1992, Railtown 1897 in Jamestown began operating under the museum.
Connecticut Antique Machinery Association (CAMA)
The Connecticut Antique Machinery Association is a museum that preserves historic machinery, located in Kent, Connecticut.
Danbury Railway Museum (DRMX)
The Danbury Railway Museum is located in Danbury, Connecticut. Their fully restored train station, built in 1903, houses a collection of historically significant artifacts and a research library covering railroading’s rich heritage in New England and the northeast United States. Just behind the station is an extensive rail yard, featuring over 60 pieces of historic railroad equipment and rolling stock.
Delaware and Ulster Railroad (DURR)
The DURR, in Arkville, New York. The Delaware & Ulster Railroad operation uses trackage in Ulster and Delaware Counties, NY; from Highmount (Grand Hotel) to Roxbury, NY.
Electric City Trolley Museum (ECTMA)
The Electric City Trolley Museum Association is a volunteer non-profit group that supports the activities of the The Electric City Trolley Museum in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, at the Steamtown National Historic Site.
Feather River Rail Society (FRRS, FRRX, WPRM)
Feather River Rail Society's (FRRS, reporting mark FRRX) Western Pacific Railroad Museum (WPRM) in Portola, California, known as the Portola Railroad Museum until January 1, 2006, is a heritage railroad that preserves and operates historic American railroad equipment and preserves documents, photos and information. The museum's mission is to preserve the history of the Western Pacific Railroad and is operated by the FRRS, founded in 1983. It is located at a former Western Pacific locomotive facility, adjacent to the Union Pacific's former Western Pacific mainline through the Feather River Canyon.
Golden Gate Railroad Museum (reporting mark GGMX)
The Golden Gate Railroad Museum (GGRM, reporting mark GGMX) is a non-profit railroad museum in California that is dedicated to the preservation of steam and passenger railroad equipment, as well as the interpretation of local railroad history.
Great Smoky Mountain Railroad (GSMR)
The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (reporting mark GSMR) is a freight and heritage railroad based in Bryson City, North Carolina, United States. Since late 1999, the railroad is currently owned and operated by American Heritage Railways, Inc., which also owns and operates the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (D&SNG) in Colorado. The railroad operates excursion trains on the former Southern Railway Murphy branch line between Dillsboro and Nantahala, North Carolina.
Kingman, AZ
Locomotive Park, located between Andy Devine Avenue and Beale Street in Kingman, Arizona.
Medina Railroad Museum
Located in the old New York Central freight depot in Medina, NY, the Medina RR Museum is one of the largest freight depot museums in the country. The building itself was built in 1905-06. It is one of the largest and last surviving wooden freight depots in the United States.
Pacific Locomotive Association
The Pacific Locomotive Association, Inc. (PLA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the physical aspects and atmosphere of Pacific Coast railroading during the period from 1910 to 1960.
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Reading Company Technical & Historical Society (RCT&HS)
Reading Company Technical & Historical Society is a non-profit corporation dedicated to preserving the history and heritage of the Reading Railroad.
Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad (R&GV)
Photos related to the R&GV. Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad (R&GV) is the roadname associated with the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum.
Seashore Trolley Museum
Seashore Trolley Museum, located in Kennebunkport, Maine, United States, is the world's first and largest museum of mass transit vehicles. While the main focus of the collection is trolley cars, it also includes rapid transit trains, Interurban cars, trolley buses, and motor buses.
Smithsonian Institution
Photos related to the Smithsonian Institution
Steamtown
Photos related to the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA.
Stourbridge, Delaware Lackawaxen & Stourbridge Railroad (DLS)
Photos related to the Delaware Lackawaxen & Stourbridge Railroad (DLS), Stourbridge Line Rail Excursions.
Strasburg Rail Road (SRC)
Photos related to the Strasburg Rail Road (SRC)
Temple Railroad & Heritage Museum
The Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum is housed in Temple’s historic Santa Fe Depot. The museum’s collection of railroad equipment is displayed on the grounds, next to an active railroad yard where rail-fans can observe daily operations and traffic of the BNSF and Amtrak. The beautiful Santa Fe Gardens, and Whistlestop Playground, are also nearby.
Waterloo Central Railway (WCRX)
The Waterloo Central Railway is a non-profit heritage railway that is owned and operated by the Southern Ontario Locomotive Restoration Society. The WCR operates on the former Canadian National Waterloo Spur now owned by the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, which connects Elmira, St. Jacobs and Waterloo to Kitchener, Ontario by rail.
West, TX, Depot Museum
Part of the History of West Museum which collects and preserves the history, heritage, and culture of the people of West, Texas and the surrounding area.
Western America Railroad Museum (WARM)
The Western America Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located in Barstow, California. The museum collects, preserves and shares the history of railroading in the Pacific Southwest. It is located on the east side of the Harvey House Railroad Depot.

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