Alberta Central Railway Museum

{{Short description|Museum in Alberta, Canada}} {{one source|date=December 2018}} {{infobox museum |name= '''Alberta Central Railway Museum''' |image= Alberta Central Railway Museum.JPG |established = |location = Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada |type = Railroad |director = |curator = |visitors = |website = [http://www.abcentralrailway.com/ www.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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abcentralrailway.com/about.htm|title=Alberta Central Railway Museum|website=www.abcentralrailway.com|access-date=2009-12-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110213033554/http://www.abcentralrailway.com/about.htm|archive-date=2011-02-13|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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.

==See also== *List of museums in Alberta

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==External links== {{Commons}} *[http://www.abcentralrailway.com/ Alberta Central Railroad Museum]

Category:Railway station museums in Alberta Category:Grain elevator museums in Alberta Category:Wetaskiwin