The Toy Train Depot
The Toy Train Depot, Inc., commonly known as The Toy Train Depot is a store and museum that features scale models of train locomotives and passenger and freight cars in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Toy Train Depot is also home to America's Park Ride Train Museum, which runs the Alamogordo/Alameda Park Narrow Gauge Railway, a working sixteen-inch-gauge track rail line that visitors can ride for a nominal fee. The store and museum are non-profit, and are run by the Toy Train Depot Foundation.
Guided tours by volunteer docents are available upon request.
The Toy Train Depot's building
The building that houses the museum is of interest, in itself, as it began its life in 1898 as a working train depot in Torrence, New Mexico at the junction of the New Mexico Central Railroad and the El Paso and Northeastern railroad. Later, the building was moved to Corona, New Mexico, where it remained for 75 years, serving the Rock Island and Southern Pacific railroads. The building retains its original stamped tin ceiling tiles as well its dispatcher's bay window.
The Toy Train Depot is located in Alamogordo, New Mexico
The museum specializes in displays of scale model and toy rail line equipment
Visitors can ride on the trains dedicated to America's Park Train Ride Museum, also part of the Toy Train Depot
Historical artifacts and ephemera are also on display within the Toy Train Depot's original train depot building
