The museum is a structural unit of the national railroad company, "Latvijas dzelzceļš".

The museum has the largest collection of wide-gauge vehicles in the Baltics.

[1] The museum's Riga exposition is located in 19th century locomotive repair shops located in Pārdaugava, near the main building of the National Library of Latvia known as Castle of Light.

Samples of uniforms, tickets, train schedules and other things related to the Latvian Railway can be seen in the expositions.

The exposition includes semaphores, couplings, trolleys, locomotive wheelsets, hydrant, level crossing equipment and other things related to Latvian Railways.