Guided Tour

Tour Beginning

Outside of Museum

• Sites of Helper
• Mine Equipment
• Museum Court Yard

Basement:

• Simulated Coal Mine
• Blacksmith & Machine Shops
• Early Police History

Main Floor:

• Lobby
• Model Train Display
• Lifestyles

Second Floor:

• Community
• Medical Life
• WPA paintings
• Winter Quarters Room

Third Floor:

• Railroad Rooms
• UMWA Room
• Disaster Room

Model Train Display

The train models in the case and the train set in both rooms were handmade by Gladwin Woodhead, a machinest on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad for many years.

Mr. Woodhead spent 50 years carving, tooling and building these models in the basement of his home in Salt Lake City, Utah.

His entire private collection was presented to the Western Mining and Railroad Museum by Mrs. Woodhead on November 16, 1985.