event – Western Crossroads Railway Museum

Popup Exhibit at the Peteetneet School Museum

January 25, 2024January 25, 2024Western Crossroads Railway Museum

In November and December 2023 we collaborated with the Peteetneet School Museum of Payson, Utah, and the South County O Scalers club to install a popup exhibit of Western Crossroads Railway Museum artifacts and photographs during the holiday railroad exhibit. We selected a set of materials relating to the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad (an electric interurban railroad) and the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s Tintic Branch, both of which played an important part in Payson’s history.

The exhibit was taken down on December 28 2023, although we look forward to future opportunities to collaborate with communities and show off our collections to the public.

2022 Evanston Roundhouse Festival

August 8, 2022August 8, 2022Western Crossroads Railway Museum

The museum had a table at the Evanston Roundhouse Festival on August 6 2022. We would like to welcome the new member who signed up at this show! Thank you to everybody who helped man the table.

The museum table inside the roundhouse in Evanston, Wyoming. Displayed is a Utah Railway vellum right of way map depicting Gordon Creek Trestle, the tallest railroad bridge in the state of Utah.

We want to thank Don Strack who donated a piece of Central Pacific rail to the museum collection. We are unsure of its provenance, but the size is typical of replacement rails laid in the 1870s.

First Public Presence at the Intermountain Train Expo

November 7, 2021August 8, 2022Western Crossroads Railway Museum

Thanks to Utah Railroad Sightseeing, the Western Crossroads Railway Museum was gifted a space at the Intermountain Train Expo in Farmington Utah on Saturday November 6 2021. This was the first public presence of the museum at an event, and was highly productive. We displayed one of the original vellum property maps from the John West Collection of Utah Railway Engineering Documents, which drew a lot of attention.

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