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Rail Gallery

Steel rails were the cord that linked early 20th-century prairie communities with the outside world. Steam locomotives crossed the country bringing settlers to their new homes and manufactured goods to prairie towns. Western grain was shipped east on its journey to markets half a world away.

The Rail Gallery presents some of the largest artifacts in the WDM collection including CPR steam locomotive 2634, CPR diesel-electric locomotive 6553, a superintendent’s coach built in the 1880s, a combination baggage and passenger coach, and a caboose. A model railway diorama gives a miniature look at transportation by rail.

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The Western Development Museum (WDM) is the largest human history museum in Saskatchewan. With a collection of over 75,000 artifacts ranging from pins to locomotives and four locations in the province, the WDM shares the Saskatchewan story from the Treaties to the present day.

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