Southern Arizona Transportation Museum
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The Southern Arizona Transportation Museum is a new (2005) museum in Tucson, Arizona. There is no charge for admission. Guided tours of the depot site are also available for a small fee, by appointment only. The museum offers community events, downtown historic walking tours (Oct - Mar), train safety education, an oral history program and an active collections department preserving artifacts pertaining to Southern Arizona Transportation.
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[edit] Museum features
Volunteers answer steam locomotive questions on Saturdays from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.. The museum also has interactive exhibits of Southern Arizona transportation history.
Modern-day Union Pacific Railroad freight trains pass the museum throughout the day. Visitors may ring the locomotive bell on SP #1673. Visitors can also learn how the railroad impacted Tucson since its arrival on March 20, 1880.
- Life size sculpture of Doc Holliday & Wyatt Earp. Wyatt Earp killed Frank Stilwell at the location of this railroad depot and yard.
- Visit the restored passenger train station that includes an original 1941 bench.
[edit] Museum opening times
- 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
- 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Friday, Saturday
- 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Sunday
[edit] Southern Pacific #1673 2-6-0 Mogul Locomotive
Southern Pacific locomotive #1673 is on display at the museum. The 2-6-0 M-4b Mogul locomotive was built for the Southern Pacific Railroad by Schenectady Locomotive Works (New York) in November 1900.
1673 specifications:
- Cylinders-Bore/Stroke: 20 in (508 mm) diameter x 28 in (711 mm) stroke
- Weight on Engine Loaded: 157,900 lb (71,620 kg)
- Weight on Drivers: 134,600 lb (61,050 kg)
- Weight on Front Truck: 23,600 lb (10,700 kg)
- Weight on Trailing Truck: None
- Driver (main wheel) diameter: 63 in (1600 mm)
- Driving Axle Journals: (Main): 9 x 12 in (229 x 305 mm)
- Driving Axle Journals: (Front): 9 x 12 in (229 x 305 mm)
- Driving Axle Journals: (Others): 9 x 12 in (229 x 305 mm)
- Engine truck Journals: 6 x 10 in (152 x 254 mm)
- Boiler Tubes' Length: 12 ft 0 in (3.6 m)
- Boiler Tube Heating Surface: 1,350 ft² (125 m²)
- Heating Surface Area of Firebox: 156 ft² (14.5 m²)
- Heating Surface Area Evaporating: 1,506 ft² (139.9 m²)
- Heating Surface Area Superheater: 269 ft² (25.0 m²)
- Combined Heating surface: 1,775 ft² (164.9 m²)
- Fuel type: Oil fired (originally coal-fired, but converted to oil in 1905)
- Boiler pressure: 190 lbf/in² (1.3 MPa)
- Boiler capacity: 85.2%
- Tractive effort: 28,710 lbf (127.7 kN)
- Tractive effort to adhesive weight: 0.213 lbf/lb (2.09 N/kg)
- Valve Gear Type: Stephenson
- Manufacturer's Serial Number: 5683
[edit] Shops
- Saguaro Artisans Gift Shop - run by local artists.
- Central Bistro - inside the depot.
The depot lobby is currently used as a waiting room for rail passengers using Amtrak passenger rail and the rest of the depot and buildings are leased to various businesses.
[edit] Location
The Southern Arizona Transportation Museum is located in the former records vault building at the former Southern Pacific Depot, recently renovated by the City of Tucson in 2004.
- 414 North Toole Avenue
- Tucson, Arizona 85701
- Telephone: (520) 623-2223
