167 - Twin City Model Railroad Museum Streetcars - Part 10 - Past and Present - Light Rail Transit

This is the tenth in a series of videos that shows both Real and Model Streetcars.
The Prototype (Real) Streetcars are from The Twin City Rapid Transit Company which ran in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota until 1954.
The Models are at the Twin City Model Railroad Museum in St. Paul on the O Scale layout.
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To see the model streetcars,
Please Visit the Twin City Model Railroad Museum
Open every Friday Saturday Sunday and Monday
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The Twin City Model Railroad Museum
The current address is
668 Transfer Road - Suite 8
St. Paul Minnesota 55114 6
51-647-9628
www.tcmrm.org/
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HOURS
Saturday 10AM - 5 PM
Sunday 12 PM - 5 PM
Monday 10 AM - 3 PM
Friday 10 AM - 3PM
Special Trains operate on certain Saturdays and other days throughout the year
- These Special Events include:
Night Trains
Circus Trains (April and September)
Military Trains (in May - around Memorial Day)
Spooky Trains (in October - around Halloween )
Holiday Trains with Night Trains
runs November through the end of February
Please check website and make a reservation as space is sometimes limited.
www.tcmrm.org/
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The Twin City Model Railroad Museum has many of different types of trains, buildings and other models - of all sizes.
There are many different model gauges and scales including:
O Scale - the internationally renowned O Scale layout
G - Garden - about 1/24th
Standard Gauge -1/32nd
O Scale - 1/48th - Lionel Trains
LEGO Scale - 1/55th
S Scale - 1/64th - American Flyer
Trains OO Scale 1/72nd
HO Scale - 1/87th
N Scale 1/ 160th
Z scale - 1/220th
Toy trains are also represented from different manufacturers including:
Lionel
American Flyer
LGB
Märklin
Marx
Hornby and others
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The Children's Area has many different layouts for the girls and boys to operate as well as work tables to create and build models
There is a LEGO Work Area and Thomas the Tank Trains to run as well.
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Please check the website for details
www.tcmrm.org/
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Museum is located on Transfer Road (Cleveland Ave) near University Avenue next to the old Amtrak Station.
The address is
668 Transfer Road - Suite 8
St. Paul Minnesota 55114
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To ride a Real Streetcar,
Please Visit the Minnesota Streetcar Museum - there are two lines:
The Como-Harriet Streetcar Line, in Minneapolis, between Lake Harriet and Bde Maka Ska (Lake Calhoun).
The Excelsior Streetcar Line operates in the south side of the City of Excelsior on one-half mile of track .
Please check the website for details
trolleyride.org/
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The Streetcars in the Video
Restored Streetcar 1300 running at the Minnesota Streetcar Museum near Lake Bde Maka Ska
Restored Streetcar 78 at the Minnesota Streetcar Museum in excelsior Minnesota
The view from inside the streetcar 1300 as it leaves Lake Harriet Station
A model of the 1300 at the Twin City Model Railroad Museum crosses the 3rd Avenue Bridge on the O Scale layout
View the view from inside a Restored PCC Streetcar running on Market Street in San Francisco
The City of San Francisco runs restored 1950s street cars routinely on their system
Light rail trains on the Twin City - Metro Transit System running near the US Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis
Various light rail trains and streetcars running around North America
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The video is a compilation of film and video from:
Paul Gruetzman - from the Twin City Model Railroad Museum
Aaron Isaacs - from the Minnesota Streetcar Museum
Frank Taylor, host of the Frank Taylor - KZbin Channel;
John Hill, host of the John Hill - KZbin Channel (johnhill_3009 or jchwayz)
NY Trainzchaser - KZbin Channel
TomedysTrains - KZbin Channel
Transit Gloria Mundi
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