Welcome to the New Braunfels Railroad Museum. The museum is open to the public at NO CHARGE. However, we gladly accept donations.
The museum has a variety of artifacts and photographs from the golden age of railroading on display. Many of them are directly related to operations of the International & Great Northern (IGN), Missouri Pacific (MOPAC), and Missouri, Kansas and Texas (MKT) railroads all of which operated in New Braunfels. During your self-guided tour, you can view displays in our renovated 1907 International & Great Northern depot, an 0-6-0T locomotive, boxcar, caboose, and a 1922 Pullman passenger car which has been renovated into a dining car and is available for rental. Other displays include railroad china, a rare late 1800’s velocipede, restored baggage carts, railroad signals, local area railroad photos, lanterns, and other tools required of the railroad employee to get his job done.
Additionally, we have five model railroad layouts in various scales. Every first and third Saturday of the month is Kids Fun Day where kids can operate our little engineers O-scale model railroad layout.
Right next to the museum, is one of the busiest North/South Union Pacific mainline railroad tracks. Over 30 trains pass by each day. Many of these trains run between Canada and Mexico, so it is not unusual to see Canadian and Mexican locomotives. The San Antonio to Chicago AMTRAK passenger train also passes by twice per day, northbound in the morning and southbound in the early evening.