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We, the directors and volunteers of the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum, grieve the passing of DEA Group Supervisor Michael Garbo in the line of duty outside our museum. Our prayers are also with the two other officers who were wounded, for an uneventful recovery at the hospital. We are saddened that this violence continues on trains from the many past years of history here and elsewhere.
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Welcome to Our 16th Anniversary of
THE SOUTHERN ARIZONA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM
See below for new Tucson-Phoenix rail links
NOTICE
WE ARE OPEN AGAIN !*
HOLIDAY HOURS
Thursday, Nov 25-Closed for Thanksgiving
Friday, Nov 26- closed
Saturday, Nov. 27 open 10:00AM-2:00PM (half day)
Sunday, Nov. 28 open 11:00AM-3:00PM
Tuesday, Nov 30 open 10:00AM-2:00PM
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Friday, 12-24, Christmas Eve 10:00AM-2:00PM (half day)
Saturday, Dec. 25 closed for Christmas
Sunday, Dec 26 open 11:00AM-3:00PM
Tuesday, Dec 28 open 10:00AM-2:00PM
Friday, Dec 31, New Year’s Eve 10:00AM-2:00PM (half day)
Saturday Jan 1 Closed for New Year’s Day
Sunday Jan 2 Closed
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Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays. Sundays
11:00-2:00 10:00-4:00 10:00-4:00 11:00-3:00
COME VISIT AND STAY SAFE
Admission is FREE
We are bilingual
SAVE THE DATE
December 18, 10AM – 3PM
Engine 1673 is dressed up and waiting
Also, our sister museum, the
TRANSIT MUSEUM IS AGAIN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Within the past month or so,
with the reduction in the number of Covid19 cases,
the OPT Transit Museum at S. 4 th and E. 36 th Streets
has reopened to the public.
Initially hours have been reduced.
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The Transit Museum hours are
Mon., Wed. and Sat. from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
CELEBRATE
Gadsden-Pacific Division
Toy Train Operating Museum
Grand Re-Opening Starting
Sunday Sept 5, we will be open every Sunday afternoon 1-4 pm
our Swap meet will be Saturday, November 13 at our museum location
links to GPD activities here
For more information, click here
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See Us From Anywhere
We are now on Virtual Railfan
With a YouTube address
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgqKBR3QqN8
The Camera is on 24 hours
Showing UP Mainline,
Engine 1673,
and Doc and Wyatt
In the last month we had ~300 viewers,
one of the favorite sites.
Amtrak Schedule is
# 1,21, west: Tu, Th, Sn 6:45-7:36 PM
# 2,22, east: Mo, Th, St 7:28-8:15 AM
To See Where Trains are now, go to
https://www.amtrak.com/track-your-train.html
Rescheduling the Silver Spike-Train Day celebration we’ll try for 2021
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Feel free to visit Engine 1673
anytime you want,
so she won’t be lonesome out there.
NEW FEATURES
Follow the Epes Randolph Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Epes-Randolph-264091763657855/ , and satm1673 on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/satm1673/ for fun and fascinating photos and tales of Tucson history!
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You can now donate, join, and renew on this site
push the button for the donation page
We also have a new brick donation form
Press the donate button above for illustration and form
Leave a lasting legacy on display
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SILVER SPIKE JUBILEE
to be next year
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HOWEVER, you can see prior celebrations
and other museum videos HERE
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The Big Boy 4014 has come and gone
leaving many memories and photos
send your photos and movies to us at
satm1673@outlook.com
For better memories, buy the shirt
Arizona Daily Star’s Road Runner column features
SATM, Ken Karrels, and All Aboard Arizona Rail Passenger Association
discussing rail passenger service between Tucson and Phoenix.
Thanks, Joe Ferguson
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All Aboard Arizona – Rail Passenger Association
Tucson-Phoenix Commuter Service
in Road Runner here
New links July 2021
Local mayors support Amtrak proposal for a passenger rail connecting Tucson and Phoenix
Tucson Weekly
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Amtrak hosts roundtable to discuss passenger rail service-KVOA
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see our new display cases and displays
Our current special exhibit:
Dinner in the Diner
Featuring original china and silver service
from the named first class Pullman trains.
The Southern Arizona Transportation Museum
is proud to carry David Devine’s new book
Historic Tales of Territorial Tucson,
1854-1912
Did you know as early as 1871 Tucson was predicted to become “a railroad center” for the Southwest? That twenty-years later, a 400-foot-long sea serpent speaking perfect English visited the remote community? That in the 1890s, Tucson hosted a few round-the-world bicyclists, one of them a woman? These and other interesting but little-known stories of the small settlement on the banks of the Santa Cruz River are contained in a new book written by local historian David Devine
Click here for more information on this and other books
and to order this book
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We also have books by our museum historian
William Kalt III
Click on the book covers for more information
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Please visit our friends at the
Gadsden-Pacific Division
Toy Train Operating Museum
Starting on Sunday Sept 5, we will be open every Sunday afternoon 1-4 pm
our Swap meet will be Saturday, November 13 at our museum location
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links to GPD activities here
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And Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Movie “Oklahoma“
Starring our Engine 1673
which was filmed in Elgin, AZ, and surrounding areas,
Read more at this link:
The Arizona Star 10/29 “Caliente” Section
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See how to donate a car, help the museum, and the high school JTED mechanical education program: here
See more on our Facebook page, even if you are not on Facebook.
