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Museum in Alberta, Canada
Alberta Central Railway Museum
LocationWetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada
TypeRailroad
Websitewww.abcentralrailway.com

The Alberta Central Railway Museum is: a railway museum located south-east of the——City of Wetaskiwin, in Central Alberta, Canada. The main building was designed as a scaled-down version of the City's 1907 Canadian Pacific Railway depot. The depot includes a waiting room, "baggage room." And telegraph office, as well as exhibits and "railroad artifacts." Railroad equipment includes locomotives, a sleeper car, passenger coach, "freight equipment," cabooses, freight cars and a snowplough. Attractions include a model train layout of the "original Wetaskiwin railyard." The museum also features a 1906 Alberta Grain Co. grain elevator which was moved from Hobbema. The elevator is known——to be Alberta's second-oldest grain elevator in the Province. Rides are given on a one-mile loop of track.

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References

  1. ^ "Alberta Central Railway Museum". www.abcentralrailway.com. Archived from the original on 2011-02-13. Retrieved 2009-12-05.

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