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Colfax Railroad Museum
Location	500 E Railroad Ave, Colfax, Wisconsin, 54730
Coordinates	44°59′50″N 91°43′30″W / 44.997311°N 91.725025°W
Type	Railway Museum
Website	https://www.colfaxrrmuseum.org/

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The Colfax Railroad Museum is a railroad museum in Colfax, Wisconsin housed in the 1914 Sandstone Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Depot.

Collection

The museum houses a collection of equipment from railroads that served western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota. The collection includes Soo Line caboose number 273, Barney and Smith Car Company heavyweight coach number 991, and Soo Line GP30 number 703, and other cars.

The depot houses the large collection of railroad lanterns, railroad china, and the nation's largest railroad paperweight collection.^{[citation needed]} Exhibits in the museum illustrate the items of material culture that people encountered in their day-to-day activities with the railroads and how technology changed over time.

Steam locomotives

Locomotive	Type	Built	Retired	Acquired	Status	Image
Coronet Phosphate #5	2-6-2ST 'Prairie'	1911	?	2014	Static Display

Diesel locomotives

Locomotive^[1]	Type	Built	Retired	Acquired	Status	Image
Soo Line #703	EMD GP30	1963	1998	?	Static Display

Passenger cars

Railroad Company	Operating Number	Car Type	Status
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha	301	Railroad Post Office	Static Display
Milwaukee Road	917202	Baggage	Static Display
Northern Pacific	950	Coach	Static Display
Soo Line	991	Coach	Static Display

Freight cars

Soo Line, Boxcar #36400

Cabooses

Milwaukee Road #X00127
Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern #018
Soo Line #256
Soo Line #273

MoW equipment

Canadian National Speeder #154-33

History

The museum is housed in the third depot to be built in the village. Built from sandstone quarried nearby, this building was constructed between 1914 and 1915 on the foundation of the second depot, which had previously been moved off the site to serve as a personal residence.

In 1958, a large storm tore through western Wisconsin, producing many tornadoes, one of which hit the freighthouse on the depot's west side. The wall of the women's waiting room was rebuilt from the rubble, but the freight house was never restored.

44°59′55″N 91°42′14″W / 44.99861°N 91.70389°W / 44.99861; -91.70389

References

^ "North Shore Scenic Railroad Roster". www.thedieselshop.us. Retrieved 4 August 2021.

Preceding station	Soo Line			Following station
Wheeler toward Portal		Main Line		Chippewa Falls toward Chicago

External links

Official website

[1] "North Shore Scenic Railroad Roster". www.thedieselshop.us. Retrieved 4 August 2021.

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-The '''Colfax Railroad Museum''' is a [[railway museum|railroad museum]] in [[Colfax, Wisconsin|Colfax]], [[Wisconsin]].
+{{Short description|Museum in Colfax, Wisconsin, US}}
+{{more citations needed|date=May 2022}}
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+The '''Colfax Railroad Museum''' is a [[railway museum|railroad museum]] in [[Colfax, Wisconsin|Colfax]], [[Wisconsin]] housed in the 1914 Sandstone [[Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad]] Depot.
 ==Collection==
-The [[museum]] currently has a growing collection of railroad equipment from railroads that serviced the western [[Wisconsin]] and eastern [[Minnesota]] region.  The collection includes [[Soo Line Railroad|Soo Line]] [[caboose]] number 273, [[Barney and Smith Car Company]] heavyweight coach number 991, and Soo Line [[EMD GP30|GP30]] number 703, and other cars.
+The [[museum]] houses a collection of equipment from railroads that served western [[Wisconsin]] and eastern [[Minnesota]]. The collection includes [[Soo Line Railroad|Soo Line]] [[caboose]] number 273, [[Barney and Smith Car Company]] heavyweight coach number 991, and Soo Line [[EMD GP30|GP30]] number 703, and other cars.
-The depot houses the large collection of railroad [[lantern]]s, railroad [[porcelain|china]], and the nation's largest railroad [[paperweight]] collection.  The primary purpose of these artifacts is to show what items of [[material culture]] people encountered in their day-to-day activities with the railroads and how technology changed over time.
+The depot houses the large collection of [[railroad lantern]]s, railroad [[porcelain|china]], and the nation's largest railroad [[paperweight]] collection.{{citation needed|date=December 2012}} Exhibits in the museum illustrate the items of [[material culture]] that people encountered in their day-to-day activities with the railroads and how technology changed over time.
+===Steam locomotives===
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
+! Locomotive !! class="unsortable" | Type || Built || Retired || class="unsortable" | Acquired || Status !! class="unsortable" | Image
+|-
+| Coronet Phosphate #5 || 2-6-2ST 'Prairie' || 1911 || ? || 2014 || Static Display ||
+|}
+===Diesel locomotives===
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
+! Locomotive<ref>{{cite web |title=North Shore Scenic Railroad Roster |url=https://www.thedieselshop.us/NSSR.HTML |website=www.thedieselshop.us |access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref> !! class="unsortable" | Type || Built || Retired || class="unsortable" | Acquired || Status !! class="unsortable" | Image
+|-
+| Soo Line #703 || [[EMD GP30]] || 1963 || 1998 || ? || Static Display ||
+|}
+===Passenger cars===
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
+! Railroad Company !! class="unsortable" | Operating Number || class="unsortable" | Car Name || Car Type !! class="unsortable" | Status
+|-
+| [[Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway|Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha]] || 301 || || Railroad Post Office || Static Display
+|-
+| [[Milwaukee Road]] || 917202 || || Baggage || Static Display
+|-
+| [[Northern Pacific Railway|Northern Pacific]] || 950 || || Coach || Static Display
+|-
+| [[Soo Line Railroad|Soo Line]] || 991 || || Coach || Static Display
+|}
+===Freight cars===
+*Soo Line, Boxcar #36400
+===Cabooses===
+*Milwaukee Road #X00127
+*Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern #018
+*Soo Line #256
+*Soo Line #273
+===MoW equipment===
+Canadian National Speeder #154-33
 ==History==
-The museum is housed in the third [[depot]] to be built in the village.  Built from [[sandstone]] quarried nearby, this building was constructed between 1914 and 1915 on the foundation of the second depot, which had previously been moved off the site to serve as a personal residence.
+The museum is housed in the third [[train station|depot]] to be built in the village.  Built from [[sandstone]] quarried nearby, this building was constructed between 1914 and 1915 on the foundation of the second depot, which had previously been moved off the site to serve as a personal residence.
-In 1958, a large storm tore through western Wisconsin, producing many [[tornado]]es, one of which hit the [[freighthouse]] on the depot's west side.  The wall of the women's waiting room was rebuilt from the rubble, but the freight house was never restored.
+In 1958, a large storm tore through western Wisconsin, producing many [[tornado]]es, one of which hit the freighthouse on the depot's west side.  The wall of the women's waiting room was rebuilt from the rubble, but the freight house was never restored.
 {{coord|44|59|55|N|91|42|14|W|display=title}}
-==References==
-* http://www.chippewa.com/sections/explorer/pages-may2007/2007%20CV%20Explorer%2015.pdf
-* http://www.colfaxrrmuseum.org
 ==See also==
 *[[List of museums in Wisconsin]]
+==References==
+{{Reflist}}
+{{adjacent stations|system=Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad|line=main|left=Wheeler|right=Chippewa Falls}}
+== External links ==
+* {{Official website|http://www.colfaxrrmuseum.org}}
+{{authority control}}
+[[Category:Former railway stations in Wisconsin]]
 [[Category:Railroad museums in Wisconsin]]
 [[Category:Museums in Dunn County, Wisconsin]]