National Register of Historic Places

Santa Fe Freight Depot

Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma
Listed
December 8, 2015
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
15000871

About this property

The Railroad Museum of Oklahoma is a railroad museum located in the former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway freight depot in Enid, Oklahoma. The museum began in 1977 and is a non-profit operated by the Enid chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. The freight depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. The museum's collection includes two rooms of operating HO and N-gauge model railroads, a reference library, dining car china, and other railroad artifacts. Engines and rolling stock in its collection include the Frisco 1519 steam locomotive, an operational 50-ton G.E. switcher locomotive, nine authentic cabooses, five different kinds of boxcars, twelve different types of freight cars, two types of flatcars, a three-dome tank car, a railway post office car, and a former Amtrak lounge car that is now used as a dining car. The museum also leads bi-annual trips utilizing its cabooses from historical Enid area rail service.

Location

702 N. Washington Ave.
Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma
36.24138, -97.52553

Categories

TRANSPORTATION
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Santa Fe Freight Depot listed on the National Register?

Santa Fe Freight Depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 8, 2015.

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Santa Fe Freight Depot is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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