Southeastern Railway Museum

The Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia, is the largest operating railroad museum in the southeastern United States and a treasure house of vintage railroad equipment from the many railroads that once served the American South. Operated by the Atlanta chapter of the National Railway Historical Society since 1970, the museum’s 35-acre campus houses over 90 pieces of historic rolling stock, including steam locomotives, diesel locomotives, passenger cars, freight cars, cabooses, and maintenance-of-way equipment from railroads including the Southern Railway, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, Louisville & Nashville, and many others. The crown jewel of the collection is the stunning 1911 private business car Superb, used by the president of the Southern Railway system. Visitors can walk through dozens of restored passenger and freight cars and climb aboard locomotives for a genuinely immersive railroad museum experience. A narrow-gauge demonstration railroad carries passengers through the museum grounds on a short excursion pulled by a vintage steam locomotive. Special event trains, including fall foliage runs, holiday excursions, and Day Out with Thomas events, are offered throughout the year. The museum is located in Duluth, Georgia, easily accessible from Atlanta, and serves as an important educational resource for railroad history in the Southeast.