Montana Museums: Anaconda Railroad and Mining Museum
Montana, besides its many outdoors activities, also provides great opportunities for learning about the history of the old west on your vacation, through it’s many intriguing museums.
- Model rail at the Anaconda museum.
The Anaconda Railroad and Mining Museum looks at Anaconda’s railroad history and relation to the local mining industry and Butte, Montana. The Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway was built by famous Montana copper king Marcus Daly. The idea was to avoid the gouging fees by the railroad monopolies, but it also had the effect of employing many of the citizens of Anaconda and Butte. The museum operates out of the two northeast bays of the the old railroad.
The Anaconda Railroad and Mining Museum features a model railroad, depiciting the entire course of the this railroad system from the Butte hill to the Anaconda roundhouse. On a Montana family vacation? Then this is certainly a must-see.
Besides this awesome model train, there is interesting historic railroad equipment, a real telegraph demonstration, scale models of the roasters and furnaces of the smelter and historical photos from the smelter and the railroad.
You’ll find that the gift shop has great educational literature regarding local railroad and smelter history. In addition, they will have a large supply of HO gauge engines and cars for sale, models for assembly to add more model railroad interest to the gift shop.
Related posts:
- Anaconda, Montana Vacations
- Butte, Montana
- Montana Hot Springs: Butte
- Montana Historic Hotels: Southwestern Montana
- Dillon, Montana Vacations
[...] acres in size and is 6,211 feet in elevation. You’ll find Montana hotels, Golf courses and museums located nearby in Anaconda. This park has been designated ‘primitive’ so there are no [...]