We stopped by the Arizona Railway Museum yesterday, another item on Jen’s Museums of Metro Phoenix quest.
It’s quite a collection of train cars, spread over 4 rail tracks. You can go inside about a dozen of them, but about half are apparently privately owned and stored here, so those are off limits. There’s a QR code to a detailed interpretative page and audio guide to each of the train cars you can tour.
There’s also a “party caboose” you can rent out, which was hosting a birthday party during our visit. There’s a very small indoor museum that seems very much like an afterthought. The museum is not so much about railroads in general (their history, impact, routes, and so forth), but definitely geared towards railcars specifically, and primarily passenger railcars.
Most of the trains here were owned privately by collectors from around the country and were eventually donated and moved here.
If you like trains, especially passenger trains with interesting features and configurations, you’ll probably enjoy the place.
