The Galesburg Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located at 211 South Seminary Street in Galesburg, Illinois, United States.
Its collection includes CB&Q 4-6-4 3006, a Pullman "Meath" car, Railway Express RPO Combination Mail & Baggage Car, CB&Q Burlington Route Way Car and a Museum Building housing a large collection of Railroad History in pictures, on paper and items donated to the museum by railroad workers and their families. We are open April to September. Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays open 12 noon to 4 p.m. Closed on Mondays and holidays. Admission is $5.00 adult (16 and older) $3.00 (ages 7 to 15) Children under 7 free with paid adult admission.
Come in and learn about the history of the railroad in and around Galesburg. The first train "The Reindeer" came to Galesburg on December 7, 1854. Learn how Chauncey Colton & Silas Willard got the railroad for the tiny 'burg'.
Famous quotes containing the words railroad and/or museum:
“This I saw when waking late,
Going by at a railroad rate,
Looking through wreaths of engine smoke
Far into the lives of other folk.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“A fine-looking mill, but no machinery inside.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 1702, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)