153 - Twin City Model Railroad Museum - Early RR Films B&W Color - Part 2 - Greg Smith Collection

The video is from 1940s films from Greg Smith's collection. The films were taken by Lee Paris beginning in the 1940s.
Lee did filming in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul and New York City.
The films were taken beginning in the 1940s and are in Black and White and early Color. They've been edited and some additional footage and music from the period has been added.
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The list of trains and topics in the video is below.
If you and your family would like to see models of trains like these -
Please Visit the Twin City Model Railroad Museum
Open every Friday Saturday Sunday and Monday
The Regular Museum hours are
Friday 10 AM - 3 PM
Saturday 10AM - 5 PM
Sunday 12 PM - 5 PM
Monday 10 AM - 3 PM
NIGHT TRAINS
Night Trains will run in 2024:
Saturday - January 13
Saturday - January 20
Saturday - January 27
Saturday - February 3
Saturday - February 6
Saturday - February 10
Saturday - February 17
Saturday - February 24
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Other Special Events - Circus Trains, Military Trains (Memorial Day), Spooky Trains (Halloween) and Holiday Trains are run at different times during the year.
Please check the website for details
www.tcmrm.org/
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The Museum is located on Transfer Road (Cleveland Ave) near University Avenue next to the old Amtrak Station.
The address is 668 Transfer Road - Suite 8
St. Paul Minnesota 55114
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Trains on these Layouts are in the video
O Scale Two Rail
American Flyer S Gauge
HO Scale
Lionel Three Rail
Marx Toy Three Rail
N Scale
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The Twin City Model Railroad Museum has many of different types of trains, buildings and other models - of all sizes.
There are many different model: gauges, scales and sizes - including:
O Scale - the internationally renowned O Scale layout - 1/48th
G - Garden - about 1/24th
Standard Gauge -1/32nd
O Scale - 1/48th - Lionel Trains
LEGO Gauge - approx. 1/55th
S Scale - 1/64th - American Flyer Trains
OO Scale 1/72nd
HO Scale - 1/87th
N Scale 1/ 160th
Z scale - 1/22th.
Toy trains are also represented from different manufacturers including:
Lionel,
American Flyer,
Märklin
Marx
Hornby
and others
The Children's Area has many different layouts for the girls and boys to operate as well as work tables where they can create and build models and run wooden trains. There is a LEGO Work Area and Thomas the Tank Trains to run as well.
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The trains and topics shown in the video include:
The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul Chicago Burlington & Quincy
2-8-2 steam locomotive with a transfer run heading East to Daytons Bluff yard in St. Paul
Chicago Burlington & Quincy 4-6-2 steam locomotive with a passenger train heads East from St. Paul towards Chicago
Milwaukee Road 4-6-2 Pacific with a passenger train Eastbound - southeast of St Paul
Milwaukee Road F-7 4-6-4 Baltic steam locomotive with a passenger train crosses the Short line bridge over the Mississippi River towards The Minneapolis Depot
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific EMD TA heading Eastbound towards St Paul The train is crossing the Milwaukee Short line Bridge over the Mississippi River
Milwaukee Road F-7 4-6-4 Baltic type steam locomotive with the Hiawatha passenger train near Hastings eastbound towards Chicago
Chicago Burlington and Quincy EMD NW2 switch engine switches the Dayton's bluff yard in St Paul
Chicago Burlington and Quincy 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive pulls a freight train east of St Paul
The photographer was then stanind in the last car of a westbound Burlington passenger train from Chicago - the video shows crossing the St Croix River in Prescott and then along the River in Wisconsin After leaving the St Paul Union Depot and heading towards Minneapolis he took additional film crossing the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis
New York City Times square in the 1940s at night
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Thanks go to Greg Smith for providing the film
Thanks also to Lee Paris who took the films.
Lee used Minnesota and Eastern as his handle for the films.
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Thanks also go to these artists for the use of their music in the video
Night And Day
Claude Thornhill And His Orchestra
There's A Small Hotel
Claude Thornhill And His Orchestra
I'll Get By
Bert Kaempfert
Too Late Now-DNC
Peter Nero with Marty Gold's Orchestra
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[@1208bug]

Thank you Greg👍

[@TCModelRRMuseum]

Thanks for watching!

[@TheCondoInRedondo]

Thank you for the annotations. The train at 3:15... Did they use the same observation car on trains other than The Hiawatha?

[@TCModelRRMuseum]

I believe the Milwaukee Road only made 8 Beaver Tail cars and they were only used on Hiawatha trains.