Home | Newsletter | Calendar | Contact Wheels | Pictures | News | Membership | Site Map  

          

What's New

Presidents Corner
The Wheels Museum has tons of good news to report. We had the freight building, our new one, professionally cleaned last week and are in the throes of moving in now!
 
The Wheels Museum is having its annual gala (on the rail yards for the first time!) on Saturday September 26th at 5:30 pm.

Tickets include a wonderful auction, and a delicious meal with entertainment and dancing to Syd Masters and the Swing Riders, original and vintage western cowboy swing.

Please call Leba Freed for reservations at (505) 243-6269.  More

Historic brewery for sale
The George J. Maloof Realty Co. has put on sale one of Albuquerque's historic gems, the Southwestern Brewery and Ice Co. building in east Downtown.

Railroad chugging back into New Mexico with exhibit of history
The coming of the railroad and what it meant is highlighted as part of a long-awaited exhibit called "Telling New Mexico: Stories From Then and Now," opening today at the new New Mexico Museum of History in Santa Fe.

Wheels Museum coming to Albuquerque’s Railyards
How many people does it take to create a museum? Only one, if she’s Leba Freed.

The Continuing Saga of AT&SF Locomotive 2926
You might remember SF 2926. She stood in Coronado Park on 2nd St. just south of I-40 for many years.

Urban Land Institute's presentation on the Rail Yards
At the invitation of the city of Albuquerque, the WHEELS Museum, and the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, a ULI Advisory Services panel was convened to evaluate redevelopment opportunities for Albuquerque’s historic rail yards.

Albuquerque's Historic Railroad Shops
video.google.com

Abq. ATSF Rail Yard/Sheds
Photos posted on Flickr.com

 


Wheels Transportation Museum


We are a volunteer run, non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve history, educate the public in the history of transportation, and provide our visitors with an opportunity to experience travel as it used to be.

The Wheels Museum will be located on the site of the historic Santa Fe Railroad Shops in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. Built in 1914, the Albuquerque shops serviced steam locomotives operating on the Santa Fe Railroad.

The Wheels Museum will become an attraction to countless thousands of visitors while at the same time provide the citizens of Albuquerque and New Mexico with a new and exciting place to shop, enjoy a concert, have dinner and - most importantly - to re-visit and learn again about a very special part of their New Mexico heritage.
 

Site Location Project
Photographs News
Santa Fe Employees Postcards
Historic Buildings Historic Districts
Railroad Families Then and Now
Locomotive 2926 Blog
The Alvarado Hotel Media
Fred Harvey Co. Newsletter
Steam Locomotives Amazon.com
Wheels Museum

Contact Us

Membership

Volunteer

Wheels Board
Friends of Wheels Related Information
 
Google Custom Search
   

Wheels Museum Inc.
PO Box 747
Albuquerque, NM 87103
505.243.6269

Development Office
1501 1st St. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87102

info@wheelsmuseum.org

© 2009 Wheels Museum Inc.   All rights reserved.  Terms and Conditions of Use.

last updated July, 2009