Category: Museum News

News articles about the museum.

  • [Video] Crystal Volunteers Work on the Model Railroad

    [Video] Crystal Volunteers Work on the Model Railroad

    Twin City Model Railroad Museum volunteers Brian and Bryce Olson were featured in a recent 12 News – Northwest Community Television segment about the museum.

  • New DVD: Twin City Model Railroad Museum Volume 2

    New DVD: Twin City Model Railroad Museum Volume 2

    Now available at the Twin City Model Railroad Museum’s gift shop: Twin City Model Railroad Museum Volume 2. This 80 minute video is a visual tour and the history about one of […]

  • Raymond Lester Norton 1918 – 2012

    Raymond Lester Norton 1918 – 2012

    Ray was a man who loved life, family, friends, church, railroads, music, animals, travel. He could be soft, he could be gruff and no-nonsense. He could blush! He was generous and big-hearted. He was determined. He was stubborn and stalwart. If he believed something, he believed it whole-heartedly. His personality was a force of nature. He was a real character and colorful.

  • M.A. Rosko of KMSP-TV Recently Explored TCMRM

    M.A. Rosko of KMSP-TV Recently Explored TCMRM

    M.A. Rosko of FOX9 News recently visited the Twin City Model Railroad Museum to do a video segment for KMSP-TV evening news.

  • Twin Cities Photography Group’s Night Trains Experience

    Twin Cities Photography Group’s Night Trains Experience

    It has been said that “a picture is worth a thousand words” so here’s what a local photography club had to say and show about their experience at the final Night Trains session of the 2010 – 2011 season. However, if you haven’t experienced Night Trains you will have to wait until November 26, 2011 when another season of Night Trains begins.

  • The Great Northern Station

    The Great Northern Station

    During the 64 years that the Great Northern Station stood at the foot of the Hennepin Avenue bridge, it was one of six passenger depots which once operated simultaneously in downtown Minneapolis, and at its peak, 125 trains used it each day.

  • TCMRM Icon Ray Norton

    TCMRM Icon Ray Norton

    It has been said that it’s impossible to be a member of the Twin City Model Railroad Museum without knowing Ray Norton, a fixture almost from the beginning. Ray can tell you about building the bleachers when the railroad club was in the St. Paul Union Depot for those many years.