page_title: Adobe Mountain Desert Park
section_title: The Sahuaro Central Railroad Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Adobe Mountain Desert Park / History / The Sahuaro Central Railroad Museum
caption_attribution_description: English: Sahuaro Central Railroad Museum sign in Glendale, Az.
context_page_description: The Adobe Mountain Desert Park a.k.a. "The Railroad Park" is a park complex which houses the Sahuaro Central Railroad Heritage preservation Society, the Sahuroa Central Railroad Museum, the Arizona Model Railroading Society and the Maricopa Live Steamers. The approximately 160 acre Adobe Mountain Desert Railroad Park is located south of Pinnacle peak Rd. on 43rd. Avenue in the City of Glendale, Arizona.
context_section_description: The building which houses the Sahuaro Central headquarters and Sahuaro Central Railroad Museum was once the Park Ranger Station at Adobe Mountain Park. The museum has various exhibits, some which are on loan by the members of the society. These artifacts include train models of different scales, artifacts related to the early years of railroading in Arizona, such as a conductors cap, railroad spikes and lanterns, the bell and headlight of a Porter 0-4-0 18" gauge locomotive and a gift shop. Expansion of the former Ranger Station have been made for meetings and museum operations.
  Outside of the museum building there are various steam locomotives on exhibit. One of them is a Porter 0-4-0 is an 18" gauge locomotive that was once used as a copper mining locomotive. Built in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1887, this locomotive was operated by the Detroit Copper Company at their Morenci, Arizona mine. Another one is a restored mini H.J. Ottaway steam engine built in Wichita, Kansas. Also, on the grounds are four Japanese Internment Camp houses from Leupp, Flagstaff. These houses were built in 1943.
caption: Welcome to Sahuaro Central Railroad Museum
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