Lake Superior Railroad Museum

CANCELLED - Minnesota Model Railroaders Event
2024-09-28 10:00 - 2024-09-30 12:00 (America/Chicago) | The Duluth Depot, 506 West Superior Street, Duluth, MN, 55802, United States
Join us at the St. Louis County Depot to see the largest model railroad constructed in the Twin Ports. The model will be set up in the Great Hall of the Depot and it is free to see the display. The Minnesota Free-mo Modelers will be setting up their modular HO scale layout for one weekend only, don’t miss out!! The model layout will be available to view 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday and from 10 am – 12 pm on Sunday!
This event in the Great Hall is free! Lake Superior Railroad Museum will also be open with regular admission $14/adult, $7/child (3-13), Members are free!

Trains & Toddlers
2024-10-14 10:00 - 11:30, 2024-11-11 10:00 - 11:30, 2024-12-09 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-01-13 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-02-10 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-03-10 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-04-14 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-05-12 10:00 - 11:30 | Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Join us for train stories, crafts and FUN!
Story time begins at 10:15am in the Zelda Theater followed by a craft. Free for members of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum and kids 2 and under. Half price admission, adults $7 and kids $3.

Halloween Carnival
2024-10-27 15:00 - 18:00 | Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Come and join the LSRM Youth in their first annual Halloween Carnival! Show off your Halloween costume, do some Halloween crafts, trick or treating, and enjoy the kid-friendly spooky decorations throughout the museum!

This event is 1/2 price admission ($7/adults, $4/kids (3-13), free for Members and children 2 and under)

Duluth All Souls Night
2024-11-02 17:30 - 20:30 | Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Our annual event of respectful remembering & reimagining hosted by Duluth Community Fall Arts Festival/Duluth All Souls Night.
All are invited!
Night of: Come as you are, dress as a skeleton if you dare! Otherwise we suggest black. (Please reserve Dias de los Muertos to those of Mexican heritage.)Bring photocopies and/or small mementos to add our community altars to honor your lost beloved people/pets.
Write out and carry Rotten Ideas you’d like to see go extinct for our fire ceremony!
*Do not park on W Michigan St between the Depot and Library. Please leave the street between the Depot and Library as open as possible for our lantern procession. The W 4th Ave.S. Auto Park across W 5th Ave. S. is free evenings/ weekends. Enter thru the lower Depot doors of the North Shore Scenic Railroad. https://duluthtrains.com/directions/
This is a freewill donation event, suggested $10 to feed the live artists. Part of the evening is outdoors weather permitting. It will be likely be a bit cold – Minnesotans, be sure to layer up! *Returning attendees requested to be guides to Newbies throughout the evening!

4:30 Oasis del Norte food truck opens in Railroad Plaza, face paint5:30 pm Train Station Entrance: Northern Lights Aerials, displays6:00 LSRM Opening Ceremony: Jillian Forte & friends6:10 W 5th Ave S Side Depot Walkway – Funeral for Rotten Ideas: Follow the Grim Reapers & Sara Sha, bagpipes. Use crosswalks.6:20 Library Plaza Community Spiral Dance: led by Helen MakelaProjections by Daniel Benoit and River Aquamann, Yabobo drums6:30 Reading and burning Rotten Ideas6:45 Bob Dylan Way Lantern Procession east around the Auto Park back down to LSRM w/ the Boys Back Home brass and our new life-size, glowing, articulated moose!
7:15 Studio 4 Sadkin, alternative pop w/ giant Max Skeleton & others8:00 Closing Ceremony8:15 Railroad Plaza Spin Collective Fire Dances8:45 LSRM Tidy Up

Other 2024 DASN Dates:Skeleton vignettes starting Oct 2, including Lane Ellis collection of Mexican Folk FiguresTues., Oct. 22nd LSRM Altar Display Set-up 2-5 pm,Viewing available afterwards during LSRM Hours 10 – 5Fri., Nov. 1st Studio 4 Poetry Reading w/ MC Zomi Bloom 7-9 pmSun., Nov. 3rd 10 am – noon LSRM Finish dismantling Displays

*These activities are made possible in part by the voters of MN through organizational grants from Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (ARAC) thanks to appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature’s general and arts and cultural heritage funds. An Art Project grant funds artist stipends in the event.An Arts and Cultural Heritage grant supported the Giant Moose Lantern Puppet build led by UK artist, Andrew Kim, in June with nine MN artists. Leah Yellowbird did the final paint flourishes!Prior years support for giant Max Skeleton and Puppet Projection Chariot also from Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (ARAC).

Museum Decorating Party
2024-11-19 16:00 - 20:00
We are happy to announce our first ever Museum Decorating Party! Do you like trains and the holidays? Then come down to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum to help us get ready for the holiday season. Snacks and drinks will be provided. This event is free for all participants!

Please sign up if you would like to attend so we know how much food to bring! Sign up here: https://forms.gle/s6Tg1sVBV6VysVLC6

Museum Closed: Thanksgiving Day
2024-11-28
Happy Thanksgiving! The Lake Superior Railroad Museum staff and volunteers are enjoying our turkey day celebrations with friends and family, but we will be back tomorrow!

Museum closes at 4:00 pm for Christmas City Express
2024-11-29, 2024-12-06, 2024-12-13, 2024-12-20 | Lake Superior Railroad Museum
The museum will be closing early on this day for the performances of the Christmas City Express. For tickets to the Christmas City Express, please visit https://duluthtrains.com/event/christmascityexpress/

Museum closes at 3:00 pm for Christmas City Express
2024-11-30, 2024-12-07, 2024-12-14, 2024-12-21 | Lake Superior Railroad Museum

Grambsch Family Candy Making
2024-11-30 11:00 - 15:00 | Lake Superior Railroad Museum
The Grambsch family will be making the candy on the original equipment used over a century ago to make hard candy. Candy demonstrations and free samples will be happening inside the museum at the replica of the Grambsch Candy Shop circa 1900, when Ben Grambsch was making candy in Loyal, Wisconsin. Join them for this annual tradition!

Admission to the museum is required to participate.

Holiday Season Kickoff at the Museum
2024-12-05 17:00 - 20:00 | Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Come and enjoy the Lake Superior Railroad Museum’s holiday decorations after hours! Christmas music, Christmas cookies, and free hot chocolate will be available!
This event is half price admission ($7/adult, $4/kid (3-13), free for Members and children 2 and under.

Museum Closed: Christmas Eve and Christmas
2024-12-24 - 2024-12-25 | Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Merry Christmas train lovers! We hope you are enjoying opening presents and time with family. We will be back on 12/26!

Museum Closed: New Year's Eve and New Year's Day
2024-12-31 - 2025-01-01 | Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Happy New Year! We look forward to a train-filled 2025!

Hot Stove Night - Wisconsin Fish Car History: Badger 1 and Badger 2
2025-03-20 06:00 - 20:00 | Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Thursday March 20th – Wisconsin Fish Car History: Badger 1 and Badger 2

Aaron Miller is the Operations Manager of the Les Voight Fish Hatchery in Bayfield and will discuss how railroads and the Wisconsin Fish Commission stocked lakes, rivers and streams by train using specially built and staffed train cars

6pm bar and complimentary snacks, 6:30pm presentation starts.

CANCELED -The Twin Ports' Rail to Sail Connection by Tony Dierckins
2025-04-02 18:30 - 20:00
Join Tony Dierckins at The Lake Superior Railroad Museum as he kicks off the Festival of History event in Duluth. The doors will open at 6:30 and Tony will start his talk at 7:00 pm. Guests should enter the back door of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum/North Shore Scenic Railroad lobby. Parking is free after 5pm in the lower level of the 4th Avenue parking lot. Event is FREE.

Minnesota Model Railroaders Event: Free-Mo
2025-04-05 10:00 | The Duluth Depot, 506 West Superior Street, Duluth, MN, 55802, United States
Join us at the St. Louis County Depot to see the largest model railroad constructed in the Twin Ports, just one weekend only. The model will be set up in the Great Hall of the Depot and it is free to see the display. The Minnesota Free-mo Modelers will be setting up their modular HO scale layout for one weekend only, don’t miss out. The model layout will be available to view 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday and from 10 am – 12 pm on Sunday!
This event in the Great Hall is free! Lake Superior Railroad Museum will also be open with regular admission $14/adult, $7/child (3-13), Members are free!

Hot Stove Night - Alberta Prairie Railroad - Stettler, Alberta
2025-04-17 06:00 - 20:00 | Lake Superior Railroad Museum
Thursday April 17th – Alberta Prairie Railroad – Stettler, Alberta
Hosted by Canadian Northern Plains Railroad’s Shawn Smith. Shawn is a longtime volunteer on this most interesting tourist railroad. Their engines, coaches and most importantly their excursions offer a completely different experience than we are used to seeing here on the North Shore Scenic Railroad.
6pm bar and complimentary snacks, 6:30pm presentation starts.

Hot Stove Night - Railroad Trivia Night with Cheryl Skafte
2025-05-22 18:00 - 20:00
Thursday May 22nd – Railroad Trivia Night with.
Teams of two to four will test their railroad knowledge of today and of railroad history. Categories include; “Trains in Movies” “Trains in Music” “Local Railroad History” “TTQs” (Trick Train Questions) and “What is THIS on a train?” PRIZES to the winners!
6pm bar and complimentary snacks, 6:30pm trivia starts.
