The Midland Historic Railroad

category : Railroad History
The Midland Historic Railroad began operation August 8, 1987 with a restored diesel engine, a 1923 Rock Island commuter coach and a 1950 caboose. It has since been expanded to include additional historic railroad equipment, including a railway post office car, additional locomotives, coaches, wooden caboose, a steam engine, and more.

The Midland Railway operates an authentic re-creation of an American local passenger excursion train on a line originally constructed in 1867 running southward from Baldwin City to Norwood, Kansas. Using early 1900s vintage coaches, the train makes an 11-mile round trip to "Nowhere," traveling through scenic Eastern Kansas rolling farmland and woods and across a 200-foot trestle 24 feet above a meandering stream. The Railway is an intrastate, common-carrier railroad, operating to preserve and display transportation history as an educational demonstration railroad.

The Midland tourist season begins Memorial Day weekend and continues through the end of October. Train run at 10:30 am Thursday morning, and at 11:30, 1:30 and 3:00 on Saturday and Sunday and holidays.
http://www.midland-ry.org/midland.html

Admission: $9 adults, $4 children
Hours: Thursday morning, weekends
Address: 1515 West High Street, adjacent to the grain elevator tower eight blocks west of the City Hall
Phone: 800-651-0388
Our Website:www.midland-ry.org/midland.html

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