Michigan Railway Museums
| Great Lakes Live Steamers | Royal Oak & Southgate - 1/8 scale rideable trains |
| Lost Railway Museum | Grass Lake - preserving one of Michigan's last interurban cars |
| Michigan Transit Museum | Mount Clemens, Macomb County - heritage rail ride |
| Coopersville and Marne Railroad | Coopersville, Ottawa County - heritage rail ride & museum complex |
| Steam Railroading Institute | Owosso, Shiawassee County - the famous 1225 steamer - excursions |
| Little River Railroad | Quincy & Coldwater, Branch County - small engine steam excursions |
| Saginaw Railway Museum | Saginaw - Michigan's largest static museum |
Model Railroad Clubs
| Ann Arbor Model Railroad Club | Dexter Depot, Dexter, Washtenaw County |
| Blissfield Model Railroad Club | Blissfield, Lenawee County |
| Rails on Wheels | Saline, Washtenaw County - Portable layout they bring to sites |
| Lansing Model Railroad Club | East Lansing, Ingham County |
| Detroit Model Railroad Club | Holly - O scale layout fills a theater |
Out-of-State Railway Museums
| Toledo, Lake Erie & Western (Bluebird) | Waterville - Grand Rapids, OH (Toledo) Speeder & train rides |
| Cuyahoga Valley Line | Cleveland - excursions through the state park |
| Mad River & NKP Railway Museum | Bellevue, OH - large, well developed static displays |
| Northern Ohio Railway Museum | Chippewa Lake (Cleveland) - Operating Electric Railway museum |
| Ohio Railway Museum | Worthington (Columbus) - Ohio's oldest electric railway museum |
| National New York Central RR Museum | Elkhart IN - focusing on our New York Central Railroad |
| Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Soc. | Operator of famous 765 steamer |
| Whitewater Valley Railroad | Nelsonville, IN - train excursions |
| Hoosier Valley Railroad | North Judson IN - train excursions and railway museum |
Premier railroad museums of the world
| Steamtown Nat'l Historic Site | Scranton, PA - steam museum operated by Nat'l Park Service |
| Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania & Strasburg Rail Road |
A railway museum across the street from a steam excursion train |
| B&O Railroad Museum | Baltimore - one of the nation's premier railway museums |
| Illinois Railway Museum | Union (Chicago) - world's largest railway museum & train rides |
| Nat'l Railroad Museum Green Bay | Large static museum and an around-the-museum train ride |
| Kentucky Railroad Museum | New Haven - diesel train excursion across rural Kentucky |
| Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum | Chatanooga - steam train rides, steam shop and museum |
| Colorado Railroad Museum | Golden - focusing on steam and narrow gauge mountain railroads |
| Northwest Railway Museum (WA) | Snoqualmie (Seattle) - train ride and well developing museum |
| California State Railroad Museum | Sacramento - one of the finest railway museums in the west |
| Western Railway Museum (CA) | Fairfield. CA - Electric railway / interurban museum |
| Orange Empire Railway Museum | Perris (Los Angeles) America's 2nd largest railway museum |
| National Railway Museum (England) | York, UK - Europe's finest railway museum |
| The Railway Museum (Japan) | Saitama (Tokyo) - Japan's central railway museum |
| DB Museum (Germany) | Nuremberg - Germany's major national museum |