Events:

 You can schedule birthday parties, weddings, anniversary parties, business, and professional receptions, and other social activities at the museum, engine 1673, and the Old Pueblo Trolley. Contact us for details.

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7^th Annual  History Talks - 2012

TIMES/DAYS: 3pm, Sundays, 2/27, 3/4, 11, 18

Click here for topics and other information

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Coming in March

Festival of Books  Mar 10,11

Stop, Look and Shop   at the Transportation Booth on the U of A Mall
SATM booth sponsored by Beach-Fleishman CPS’s

Visit their website

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Rails in the Garden   March 10,11 

  -Tour 8 different garden Railroads (G Scale) around Tucson
Tickets are on Sale at our Museum

details at Tucson Garden Railway Society

The Annual Silver Spike Commemoration
of the railroad ariving in Tucson

Mar 17: SILVER SPIKE FESTIVAL

9:00 am- HISTORIC DEPOT-SATM

-Precedes St Patty's Parade -

The 132nd Anniversary of the arrival of the railroad to Tucson will be celebrated with a display of the

 original 1880 Silver Spike ,a performance by the 4th Cavalry Regiment Band, a City proclamation

 by Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothchild.  Music begins at 9:00AM  at this free event sponsored by 

 The Southern Arizona Transportation Museum.   Antique vehicles will be on display.

The museum will be open in the afternoon following the parade for visits and tours.

 MARCH 17  2012

HISTORIC RAILROAD DEPOT

 Available parking

414 N.Toole Ave (& Pennington)

623-2223

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 {{{{{ From the Silver Spike ceremony last March }}}}}

Watch the Silver Spike video from the event, click here, this video may load slowly 

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In July, the 150th aniversity of the founding of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, July 1, 1862

lick here to see a picture of the Silver Spike

To see the promotional video, click the picture

See KVOA's Herb Stratford, the Arts & Culture Guy,  
segment on the Museum. It is about a minute
    into the piece. Click below for the video. 

 

 www.kvoa.com/videos/arts-and-culture-guy-pooh-and-potter/

 Tours

Depot Tours

All aboard! Visit the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum. Your tour guide will explain the historic and present day uses of the former Southern Pacific Depot. History comes alive when you explore the restored Depot Lobby (circa 1941), the historic Locomotive #1673 and the Museum. Learn how the railroad impacted Tucson since its arrival in March 1880.

All tours $6 per person. Please ask about student discounts. Click here for a location map.