EQUIPMENT ROSTER Oklahoma Railway Museum 3400 NE Grand Blvd. Oklahoma City, OK 73111 (405) 424-8222 oklahomarailwaymuseum.org Location Oklahoma Railway Museum The Oklahoma Railway Museum, Ltd. (ORM) offers 35-minute summer excursion trains as well as several Special Train Ride events. Check our website for details and ticket prices. The Museum itself is open Thursday– Saturday from 9 am to 4 pm and there is no admission charge to tour the grounds.In addition to the train ride, railroad equipment (including motor cars, locomotives and passenger cars) are on display. A display car contains permanent exhibits of railroad memorabilia. Conveniently located just a half mile west of Interstate 35 off Exit 131 (NE 36th Street on historic Grand Boulevard). • Half mile east of MLK Boulevard • Just south of Lincoln Park Golf Course • 1 mile south of the Oklahoma City Zoo Oakwood Station The Oakwood Depot was constructed by the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway in 1905 in Oakwood, Oklahoma Territory. The Santa Fe Railway leased the Orient line in 1929 and operated the station until 1958. In later years, it was acquired by the Dewey County Historical Society and Oklahoma Railway Museum moved to a property just west of Watonga, 3400 NE Grand Blvd. Oklahoma. The Depot was purchased Oklahoma City, OK 73111 by the Oklahoma Railway Museum and (405) 424-8222 moved to the present location in 2000 and was completely restored. oklahomarailwaymuseum.org 3 to about 1930. to back isoriginal,dating inthecanopy steel and wood the All in2003. 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Additional buildings, including a freight house museum building, passenger depot, and a restoration and maintenance facility will all be functional and serve as teaching tools for our visitors and members. Displays of artifacts on our grounds will educate the public on their use by the railroads. Oklahoma Railway Museum’s 20-year master plan features a functional rail yard for the public to experience. As we create our museum complex, we will continue to host events that engage and benefit our community. LeFlore Depot 1908 Roundhouse and Trolley Barn New Freight House Train Shed Track Realignment The restored LeFlore Turntable Event Center Our entry building will be A train shed will be built and Expansion Depot will serve as a A 1920 Frisco turntable, This pavilion will serve modeled after a railroad over existing display Our tracks will be temporary admission originally from Sapulpa, as an event space. It will freight house. It will track to protect visitors realigned in front of point, gift shop and offices. Oklahoma will be restored have a catering kitchen serve as admissions, gift and the equipment from existing maintenance Later it will be used for as a working feature of the and restrooms. It can be shop, exhibits, archival the elements. shop building. New archives and displays. museum. A prototypical used for special events storage, administrative track will be added to roundhouse will be built and classes. offices, and classrooms. the turntable with extra for the turntable providing There will also be an display tracks to the east bays for equipment observation deck. and west. A new siding display and additional will be installed east of event space. the main line track. Yard Office This building was the only building on the property when the ORM acquired the land it now occupies. It had previously been the office for a pipe and/or oil service company. Prior to the ORM acquiring it, the most recent owner of the property used it for goats. This building was open to the goats and whomever else wanted to use it. The ORM volunteers cleaned it out, restored it, and added a second restroom. 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It sits on the north end of the ORM track just south of NE 50th Street and east of the Expansion Plans Oklahoma City Zoo. 5 Museum Timeline Jim Murray Maintenance Shop 1972 The Central Oklahoma Railfan Club, Central Oklahoma Chapter The Jim Murray Maintenance Shop of the National Railway Historical Building is approximately 7400 sq. feet Society, was founded by railroad enthusiasts who had interests in with two track bays, office, restrooms, and modeling, photography, historic mailroom. It was built in 2005 and is named preservation, and riding trains. for Jim Murray, one of the museums 1987 founding members and Director of The Chapter moved a portion Maintenance from 2004 to 2013. of their equipment to Watonga, Oklahoma, and began running the Watonga Chief Dinner and passenger trains on the AT&L Railroad. 1990 Members of the Chapter helped staff the Homecoming Trains that the state operated from Tulsa to Altus. Union Pacific Railroad provided their heritage passenger car fleet for the trips. 1995 The Chapter organized trips from Oklahoma City to Shawnee using Union Pacific’s heritage passenger car fleet. This trip raised the seed money needed to purchase a museum site. Frisco Turntable 1997–1999 Central Oklahoma Railfan Club This 100-foot turntable was originally began working with the Oklahoma Center for Non- Profits to develop a installed in Sapulpa, Oklahoma in 1920 by business plan for the creation of a railway museum. Land was identified, the Saint Louis-San Francisco Railway (the purchased, and the Oklahoma “Frisco”). It was moved by the Frisco Railway Museum was established in Railway to Oklahoma City in 1929 as a Oklahoma City. replacement for an 82-foot turntable. It was donated to the Oklahoma Railway 2009–Current Museum by the BNSF Railway in 1994 and The Oklahoma Railway moved to the Museum grounds in April Museum is working on our museum’s future. Additional 2017. It is stored next to the Leflore Depot. land was purchased and a The original Frisco logo and “Sapulpa long term museum expansion project has begun. Work Oklahoma” lettering are still faintly visible continues to advance on the sides. It is hoped to be restored to Oklahoma Railway Museum’s mission for future generations. operation. 6 55 Bridge Logos Birthday Parties The Oklahoma Railway Museum offers a unique venue to host a birthday party. We have a 1921 wooden caboose, the depot platform, or other areas of the grounds. You supply the cake, presents, and the kiddos while we supply tables and chairs. Also included are paper engineer hats These Frisco and Rock Island Railroad and a rail safety coloring book. ORM offers heralds were displayed for almost 80 two packages that include two hours for years (1931-2010) on Oklahoma City’s the party. South Robinson Street Bridge. The bridge was located approximately a half Package One is available only on the first mile east of Union Station and allowed and third Saturdays of April through both railroads to pass above Robinson August and includes 1 hour and 45 to access to the station. The bridge was minutes for the party and tickets for a torn down to make way for a new bridge train ride for 20 guests on historic railroad with the rerouting of the I-40 crosstown passenger cars. Additional train tickets can be purchased for $5.00 each. expressway. The costs are: Each Concrete herald measures 5 ft. 8 in. Birthday Caboose - $250.00 (includes by 4 ft. 8 in. The bridge railing is 2 feet $50.00 refundable security deposit) high and the bottom portions are 22 inches thick. Each weighs in excess of Party Coach - $300.00 (includes $50.00 9000 pounds. refundable security deposit) Package Two is available throughout the year on most non-operating Saturdays and includes 1 hour and 45 minutes for a party without a train ride. The costs are: Birthday Caboose - $150.00 (includes $50.00 refundable security deposit) Party Coach - $200.00 (includes $50.00 refundable security deposit) All bookings are made online at oklahomarailwaymuseum.org. For questions call 405-424-8222 or email [email protected]. 54 7 Flatcar SP flatcar on the siding by 30th street, shown here with the boom from our American Crane on top of it. Donated to the ORM by Bob Hussey. Built in 1964. OKRX 48 Status: Active Super Hopper A GA-221 aluminum-built 5-unit articulated hopper.