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Existing
Rail Icons of
Central Alberta
in addition to those in
Red Deer and Red Deer County
as elements of planned self-guided tours
Alberta Prairie Railway Excursions
Stettler to Big Valley
steam (Consolidation 2-8-0) or diesel (SW1200) powered trains May to
October, various themes including train robbery, entertainment and
dining, includes home to and
periodic use of restored Canadian National Mountain locomotive 6060
www.absteamtrain.com
'The Spirit of Alberta'
CNR Steam Locomotive 6060
dedicated provincial historic resource in 2009; built in 1944, also
known as 'Bullet-Nosed Betty', North America's only operating
Mountain-type 4-8-2 locomotive, operated by Rocky Mountain Rail
Society periodically on Alberta Prairie
www.6060.org
News feature: 6060 turns 66
(Red Deer Express Sep.2010)
Big Valley Roundhouse Interpretive Centre
and
Railway Hall of Fame
includes
restored Canadian Northern railway 2nd class station museum, grain elevator,
rail snowplow
and Canadian Railway Hall of Fame
The Nordegg Colleries
National Historic Site
includes
heritage centre and mine-site museum with tours
Alberta Central Railway Museum
near Wetaskiwin,
includes compressed replication of 1907 Wetaskiwin CPR railway station
and several relocated structures, rolling stock, passenger cars,
RS23 diesel and restored operating CP Budd Dayliner RDC (rail diesel
car) on one mile loop of track
www.abcentralrailway.com
Town and Country Museum in Stettler
includes
relocated and restored Canadian Northern 2nd class railway station
Replicated CPR railway station in Lacombe
Restored Canadian Northern railway station at Meeting Creek
Restored and relocated CPR Tees railway station
at Paskapoo Park in
Rimbey
 Mirror and District Museum
includes CNR boxcar and caboose and
history of hamlet as CN divisional point
Camrose Railway Park including Morgan railway garden
and tea room
Alberta 2005 Centennial Railway Museum in Beiseker
Kneehills Historical Museum in Three Hills includes
station, caboose and box car
More information to come . . .
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