This is the webpage of the Galt Historic Railway Park! Special events, whats new at the Park, interesting historical tidbits will be posted here!
Upcoming Annual General Meeting for the Great Canadian Plains Railway Society May 31st, 2018 (Thursday) 7:00 pm at the Galt Historic Railway Park. If you are interested or know of someone who would be, please come…
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Our annual Victorian Prairie Christmas event is coming up! Thursday & Friday (November 16th & 17th). Each event starts at 1pm each day. Includes cowboy poetry, authentic period music, and Christmas carols! Will also have food…
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The Board of Directors would like to invite the public to a special event this week Saturday… to celebrate the birthday of the Coutts-Sweetgrass International Train Station, which commenced operations in October 1890 for the Alberta…
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As we start to wind down tourist operations at the Galt Historic Railway Park for 2017, the Board of Directors would like to invite the public to two separate events this week Saturday. From 1:30 pm…
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Introduction The concrete elevator seen here stands out as a unique example of Alberta ingenuity. For a time in the 1980s it was the ‘Cadillac’ of the grain industry and future of what was to come,…
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This week’s blog post is courtesy of guest contributor Jonathan Koch, editor of the southern Alberta history website, ForgottenAlberta.com. We had the opportunity to host Jonathan and Greg Farries last July at both the Galt Historic Railway…
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Introduction The grain elevator seen here really stands out as unique and was in the early 1980s a highly innovative design, the future of the Alberta grain industry. The Buffalo Sloped Bins (BSB) was the dawn…
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