MCRM
P.O. Box 358
E8948 Diamond Hill Road
North Freedom, WI 53951
Telephone:
608-522-4261
800-930-1385
FAX:
608-522-4490
email contacts:
, manager
, office
, gift shop
, collections
Welcome to Mid-Continent!
Our 45th season at North Freedom opens for weekends, beginning May 10! Join us for a unique experience of historic railroading.
SPECIAL MOTHER'S DAY First Class and Dining Service are now being offered May 10 and 11. Check the Reservations Page for times.
Prepare for your visit by pre-ordering the Mid-Continent Compendium guidebook, available from our Webstore page, or call the office at 608-522-4261, or send a check for $5 plus $2 P&H to MCRM, P.O. Box 358, North Freedom, WI 53951. It's just what you need to guide you during your visit. Our daily schedule will begin May 24. For full schedules, click here.
OUR NEW ON-LINE ARCHIVES are now open. This will be a work-in-progress so stop back often for updates. You can start your archives journey here.
WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE that we are now hosting the Rolling Stock website, a fantastic resource for historical information, data, photos and more on wooden railroad cars and builders. This is an independent effort on the part of Hayes Hendricks, but compliments our own mission so well, we felt hosting his pages would be a natural fit. Enjoy by starting here!.
MID-CONTINENT STARS IN A MUSIC VIDEO: Checkout Catfish Stephenson's new music video "Catch A Train," recently filmed at North Freedom.
SHOP UPDATE: The museum's locomotive shop forces are working on the WC&C #1's running gear. To view a report that appeared in last October's issue of the Railway Gazette, click here (pdf). Shop updates can be seen here.
Check out our BLOG... Museum general manager Don Meyer will update it regularly with the latest happenings at Mid-Continent.
Mid-Continent is an outdoor living history museum and operating railroad recreating, preserving, and interpreting the small town/shortline way of life from the "Golden Age of Railroading" spanning the years 1880 to 1916. Help us preserve this experience for others to enjoy by making a donation, and consider joining us as a member!
The entire contents of this website is ©2008 Mid-Continent Railway Historical Society, Inc. Please respect the copyright of our contributing photographers. Any copying, redistribution, or reuse of files, photos, text, or graphics from this website without written permission is prohibited, with the exception of the Media Kit under the terms outlined on those pages.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: We would like to thank the following people for making this site possible: John Gruber, Ray Buhrmaster, Don Meyer, Dennis and Marcia Elliott, Bill Buhrmaster, Jim Neubauer, Jeff Haertlein, Jeff Bloohm, Don Ginter, Glenn Guerra, Mike Harrington, Bill Raia, John Decker, Herman Page, Dick Goddard, Stan Searing, Doug Crary, Forrest Van Schwartz, David Mattoon, Philip A. Weibler, and Leah Rosenow. Pat Weeden and Paul Swanson, Webmasters.