Oklahoma Railway Museum preserves the heritage of Oklahoma Railroading The Museum is open year-round Thur-Sat from 9 to 5 Nov & Dec ONLY open for the Polar Express event. The Oklahoma Railway Museum’s mission is to provide an educational experience showing how railroading shaped Oklahoma and the nation.   The goals are as follows: · Continue to expand and maintain an Oklahoma rail transportation museum· Provide an exciting, educational experience about rail transportation: our past, present, and future· Provide an experience of preservation and restoration· Operate a working railway system· Create partnerships with people, communities and organizations.  Background It is important to secure and preserve for posterity the disappearing artifacts, equipment, and structures of our railway heritage. The Oklahoma Railway Museum will preserve this history while teaching us how the railroads affected our lives. In addition to the physical preservation of the rail lines, equipment, and artifacts, the museum will tell the stories of the people whose lives were changed by the railroads. At ORM’s incorporation and still today our goals are: to operate exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes. To preserve the memories and images of railroading through education by; holding educational programs emphasizing all aspects of railroading; establishing and maintaining a library to preserve and make available to the membership and the public any and all kinds of written, visual, and aural materials related to all aspects of railroading; establishing and maintaining a museum for the purpose of preserving and operating any and all types of railroad equipment and memorabilia for the enjoyment and education of the membership and the public; and establishing and maintaining any other activity in furtherance of this educational purpose. To foster stimulating group discussion and the exchange of knowledge concerning railroading by sponsoring tours, trips, and excursions, and by publishing a newsletter and other publications.