WHEELS Museum Spring 2024 Newsletter Wheels Museum is a non-profit, volunteer run organization. We very much would like to be open for more hours, but we need more volunteers to […]
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Coming of Age During the War: Reminiscences of an Albuquerque Hispana
By Carmen Chavez At the time, I was a first-semester senior at Albuquerque High School. The railroad had transferred my father and family from Amarillo, Texas. We moved into Barelas, […]
WHEELS Museum Winter 2024 Newsletter
WHEELS Museum Winter 2023 Newsletter Wheels Museum is a non-profit, volunteer run organization. We very much would like to be open for more hours, but we need more volunteers to […]
Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy
Will Rogers noted that Fred Harvey “kept the West in food—and wives.” But the company’s Harvey Girls are by no means its only legacy. From the Atchison, Topeka and Santa […]
Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society Photo Collection, Albuquerque, NM
Eastern Archives Note: Please contact the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society for negative prints. Email: SFRHANDMS@MINDSPRING.COM Phone: (405) 732-3562 6, FAIRBANKS-MORSE wood 800 ton 4 pockets coal chute […]
Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Locomotive Shops
By Edith Cherry and James See November 11, 2023The Guide to New Mexico Architecture The railroad came to Albuquerque in 1880, and by 1930 had transformed the farming village into […]
30 Best Things to Do in Albuquerque
Nothing quite beats the charm of a Saturday morning at the Wheels Museum Inc. The delightful whiff of history, old iron and steam takes me back to a time I only know […]
The Story of the Fred Harvey Company
In the late 1800s passenger service improved as entrepreneur Fred Harvey introduced an unprecedented level of amenities and service in his Harvey Houses across the southwest United States. For the […]
Can you help identify the men who worked in the Santa Fe Shops?
We have a photo of many of the men who worked in the shops. Sadly, they’re gone now, but we are hoping family members may be able to identify them. […]
COFFEE AND CULTURE
COFFEE AND CULTURE – OCTOBER 21 & 22, 2023 A SantaFe.com podcast hosted by Richard Eeds with Leba Freed, the Founder of The Wheel’s Museum @ The Railyard in Albuquerque’s […]