Michigan Transit Museum

It's with great sadness that we announce the passing of long time member RIchard Fountain at age 86. His wife Charlotte passed away in February of this year. Dick was editor of our newsletter and membership chairman for most of his 50+ years with Michigan Transit Museum, and was very active with train rides when the museum first began operations at Selfridge. A retired clerk from GTW, he served on our board of directors for decades, and was part of a dedicated group of individuals that got this organization off the ground in the 1970's. Thank you for your dedication sir.

Thank You, We are ever so grateful!

We will be closed tomorrow, May 24th. Happy Memorial Day weekend!

The depot museum will be closed on Easter Sunday!

We are excited to announce in both celebration of America 250 and the unified passion of Michigan railroad societies that Michigan Transit Museum will be hosting the first ever railroad days on our beloved Selfridge spur. Railroad organizations from across the entire state will bring their locomotives to our tracks for an eventful day of train rides, photography charters, run-a-train, and up-close looks at everything. Planned locomotives that will be running will be Coopersville and Marne’s #1395, Greenfield Village’s Edison #1, Huckleberry Railroad’s #152, Lake Linden and Torch Lake’s #3, Little River’s #110, Michigan Transit Museum’s 4040, Southern Michigan’s #2022 and Steam Railroad’s #1225. Henry Ford Museum will even have their prized C&O 1601 running on the mainline for the first time in decades!

We hope that you are just as thrilled as we are about this idea. Unfortunately, this is however just a fun April 1 post, but we do encourage you to support all our fellow railroad organizations in Michigan. Below is a list of the above-mentioned groups and the pictures attached to this post are courtesy of their websites and social medias.

Coopersville and Marne Railway
https://mitrain.net/
Greenfield Village
https://www.thehenryford.org/visit/venues/greenfield-village/railroad-junction
Henery Ford Museum
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections/explore/popular-research-topics/the-allegheny-locomotive
Huckleberry Railroad
https://geneseecountyparks.org/huckleberry-railroad/
Lake Linden and Torch Lake Railroad
https://www.houghtonhistory.org/railroad.html
Little River Railroad
https://littleriverrailroad.com/
Michigan Transit Museum
https://www.michigantransitmuseum.com/
Southern Michigan Railroad
http://www.southernmichiganrailroad.com/
Steam Railroad Institute
https://michigansteamtrain.com/

We will be closed tomorrow (January 25th) due to inclement weather!

The depot museum will be closed today, January 4th. We will be open again starting next week!