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We are a not-for-profit, charitable, historical, technical, and educational, 501(c)3 organization. Our intent is to promote interest in model railroading.

11/01/2026

Notice For Saturday, November 7, 2026:

The Sheboygan Railroad Museum will be CLOSED this first Saturday of November. Look for our booth at TRAINFEST in Milwaukee!

10/21/2026

"New O on the Go!" Last weekend's Open House/Brat Fry at the Sheboygan Railroad Museum featured an O gauge train running around the outer main line of the proposed track plan for the new expanded layout, as seen here.

10/21/2026

New Street Lights outside the office building by the brewery on the upper level!

10/19/2026

At The Sheboygan Railroad Museum Open House: More Layouts

10/19/2026

At the Sheboygan Railroad Museum Open House: Fire Protection and Double-Decker.

10/19/2026

At the Sheboygan Railroad Museum Brat Fry/Open House last weekend: Various Layouts.

10/18/2026

The Aurumn RR Museum Brat Fry and Open House is history. We had great weather (a little cold, but sunny). Thank you to all who came out... and to all the volunteer workers who made this weekend possible!

10/17/2026

Fall Open House/Brat Fry at the RR Museum.

07/21/2026

"Shovel Nose". That's what they called the design of one of the earliest "diesel" streamliners, the Burlington Pioneer Zephyr.

Designed to look sleek and very un-steam like, the shiny train was named for the Greek/Roman god of the wind.

As time progressed, engineers who ran these "shovel noses" complained of being uncomfortable of being so close to the front of the locomotive; others said the ongoing sight of endless crossties slipping under the train below the windshields was making them sleepy.

The result was to redesign the locomotive so that the windshields were moved up to roof level (then shoved back to form a streamlined "nose" with the headlights below them.). The air intakes were moved off the nose to the upper sides of the locomotive.

For years, Burlington passenger locomotives were painted with a red or black stripe across the noses under the headlights (to mimic the former location of the windshields) -- and, for a while, "fake" air intakes on either side the mimic the original locations of the "real" ones on the earlier Shovel Nose locomotives.

Address

1001 N 10th Street
Sheboygan, WI
53081

Telephone

(920) 783-6248

Website

https://www.sssmre.org/

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