Wheels Museum & Rail Yard Events

By Dan Pollettaideastream January 8, 2020 Enjoying a gourmet meal in a well-appointed dining car was part of the allure of traveling by rail, but in the 1850s that elegant experience wasn’t afforded to train travelers. Instead, passengers either packed their own baskets of food or exited the train when it stopped at a depot…

For well over a half century a traveler’s first impression of the American Southwest was through one of the many Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad stations and the associated hotel and restaurant operated by the Fred Harvey organization. Here the eastern or midwestern traveler was drawn into the romantic world of the Spanish conquistador…

By Eric Green May 3, 2019 Route 66 runs right through New Mexico, and cars are directly connected to our culture. But there’s a lot more than cars in our state’s transportation history, and a museum in Albuquerque is telling that story.