Jackson Street Roundhouse
The Jackson Street Roundhouse is the MTM's headquarters in St. Paul, as well as a fully functional railroad roundhouse, one of the last of its kind in the country.
Open Wednesdays and Saturdays, year-round, it is the site where the museum's locomotives and rolling stock come for maintenance and restoration. It is a highly interactive exhibit offering train rides as well as interactive exhibits about surface transportation history of Minnesota and the upper Midwest. The building was erected by the Great Northern Railway in 1907 and is on a site that has been used for rail transportation since the railroads first came to Minnesota.
The roundhouse is also home to the famous Northern Pacific Railway steam engine #2156, best known to many Twin Cities children from the 1960s / 70s, as Casey Jones' steam engine, from the popular children's program. #2156 is currently undergoing long term restoration to its original operating condition.
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