Dear friends,
WELCOME all to WHEELS Museum! We are celebrating having over 200,000 visitors, more than 10,000 exhibit items at a value of over $5million, and the planning for expansion to the babbitt and welding shop for an additional 5,000 sq ft for the NM Model Railroad center, which will give us 26,000 sq ft. We are also doing early planning for the 800,000 sq ft machine shop.
WHEELS hosts constant events, presentations, book signings, field trips, parties and much more including music events. We seek your suggestions to improve our work for others as we bring education, fun, history, and culture to all who visit. Our volunteers are known for their kindness and friendliness and expertise in our subjects. WHEELS has won dozens of awards, given hundreds of programs, and worked with special needs people, seniors and all who want to know about the history of transportation of the west. We recently hung a 58′ glider in our 48-ft ceiling, and we are getting new exhibits constantly. Model train layouts of every scale, antique autos, planes, model car room, Alvarado room, Steam room with history exhibits, three libraries, buggies, fire trucks, and many unique surprises await you. We also seek volunteers to enjoy life with us as we help others.
Visit us at the iconic site that made Albuquerque and NM modern places but in an atmosphere of the original buildings of the Santa Fe railroad from over one hundred years ago.
Please call (505) 243-6269 with any ideas and to help.
Leba
NOTE: WHEELS Museum is a 501(c)3 organization in the Albuquerque Rail Yards dedicated to collecting, preserving and creating educational exhibits about the history of transportation in Albuquerque and New Mexico with emphasis on the impact on the development of the area. Our collections embrace the history of the railroads, the impact of the rail yards on Albuquerque, as well as automobiles, horse and wagon, and other modes of transportation.