Age of Steam Railroad Museum
Age of Steam Railroad Museum
If you like trains and you want something off the beaten path to do on your next visit to Dallas, definitely make The Age Of Steam Railroad Museum a place on your next tour itinerary.
This museum celebrates and educates how the railroad united and helped America grow. The railroad reached Dallas in 1873 and helped it grow to be the large metropolis it is today because of its center proximity Dallas became a hub for commerce in the Southwest, which was unheard of for a City without any major rivers or seaports as part of its make up.
From the 1970s until the late 1920's, the main station in Dallas, Union Station, would see over 100 arrivals and departures a day. This marked the Golden Era of rail travel when nearly 10,000 Pullman sleeping cars provided passengers with a restful night's sleep on long distance trains. When the stock market crash in 1929 happened, the 1930s Depression and the sudden affordability of the automobile triggered an irreversible decline in rail passenger service.
The railway station closed for good in May of 1969 after having given just about 100 years of rail service to the people of this area.
In 1971, Amtrak opened and brought passenger trains back to Union Station in 1973. Nowadays, Amtrak is joined by DART's Light Rail (part of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system) and Trinity Railway Express Commuter train service. Meanwhile, the private freight railroads are setting records in the amount of tonnage hauled. There are now over 5 different railroads serving out of Union Station and serving the Dallas Area.
If you want to know more, please visit the Age of Steam Railroad Museum!
If you like trains and you want something off the beaten path to do on your next visit to Dallas, definitely make The Age Of Steam Railroad Museum a place on your next tour itinerary.
This museum celebrates and educates how the railroad united and helped America grow. The railroad reached Dallas in 1873 and helped it grow to be the large metropolis it is today because of its center proximity Dallas became a hub for commerce in the Southwest, which was unheard of for a City without any major rivers or seaports as part of its make up.
From the 1970s until the late 1920's, the main station in Dallas, Union Station, would see over 100 arrivals and departures a day. This marked the Golden Era of rail travel when nearly 10,000 Pullman sleeping cars provided passengers with a restful night's sleep on long distance trains. When the stock market crash in 1929 happened, the 1930s Depression and the sudden affordability of the automobile triggered an irreversible decline in rail passenger service.
The railway station closed for good in May of 1969 after having given just about 100 years of rail service to the people of this area.
In 1971, Amtrak opened and brought passenger trains back to Union Station in 1973. Nowadays, Amtrak is joined by DART's Light Rail (part of the Dallas Area Rapid Transit system) and Trinity Railway Express Commuter train service. Meanwhile, the private freight railroads are setting records in the amount of tonnage hauled. There are now over 5 different railroads serving out of Union Station and serving the Dallas Area.
If you want to know more, please visit the Age of Steam Railroad Museum!
