Mid-Continent RR, opened in 1963, is an outdoor, living museum and operating railroad recreating the small town / short line way of life with operating trains, educational exhibits, and displays of restored rolling stock. They educate the public by recreating as accurately as possible the Golden Years of Railroads, from the Civil War days until after World War II, by operating a living railroad with vintage equipment from those times. Learn of a time when the railroad station was the communication center of every small town. People came to meet folks who came from faraway places. The mail, packages, newspapers, and goods came by rail. The railroad and its telegraph were the nucleus that tied a small community to every place in the entire country. Everyone depended on the railroad for transportation, information, and the shipment of goods and mail. Great family activity! Follow us: https://www.youtube.com/user/MCRHS , https://www.instagram.com/midcontinentrailwaymuseum