| Alberta Central Railway Museum | |
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| Location | Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada |
| Type | Railroad |
| Website | www.abcentralrailway.com |
The Alberta Central Railway Museum is a railroad museum located southeast 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.[1] Railroad equipment includes locomotives, a sleeper car, passenger coach, freight equipment, cabooses, freight cars and a snowplow. Including a model train layout of the original Wetaskiwin railyard. The museum also features a 1906 Alberta Grain Co. grain elevator that 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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Coordinates: 52°52′52″N 113°17′38″W / 52.881°N 113.294°W
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