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North Dakota State Railroad Museum
Mandan Railroad Museum
Adopted in 1989.
The museum offers five acres filled with full-size railroad artifacts and equipment. Railroad Days is the 4th Sunday of every August. It was adopted in 1989.
North Dakota Legislature
54-02-14. State railroad museum.
The Mandan railroad museum, established in 1972 in Mandan, is hereby designated the North Dakota state railroad museum. No state agency or institution may provide appropriated funds to the state railroad museum nor is the state responsible for any obligations of the museum.
The Railroad Museum has a unique display of HO model 'hopper cars' from the collection of Dr. Kenneth J. Johnson of Bismarck, ND. The Railroad Museum has a special collection of 'Timetables' from every railroad in the United States. The Railroad Museum has an extensive collection of photographs from the camera of Ron V. Nixon, a longtime Northern Pacific dispatcher. Artifacts, both large and small, fill all corners of the Railroad Museum. They
reflect the uniqueness of items especially designed and made for the operations of the railroads. For some romance of old-time railroading, or to look at old rolling stock, or assorted railroad memorabilia, consider a stop at the North Dakota State Railroad Museum in Mandan.
Location:
North Dakota State Railroad Museum
3102 37th Street NW
P.O. Box 1001
Mandan, ND 58554-7001
(701)663-9322
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State Symbols
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State symbols represent things that are special to a
particular state.
symbol \ˈsim-bəl\
noun
Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in
other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token
of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together,
compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century
1: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or
convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
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