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Willow Creek Railroad Museum

97303 Brooks (near Salem), OR, United States of America (USA) (Oregon )
Address 3995 Brooklake Rd NE
On the grounds of Powerland Heritage Park 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ
Garden Railway

Opening times
 Memorial Day - Labor Day: Railroad Hours: Sundays 11:00am - 3:00pm
and most times when there is an event on the Antique Powerland Campus (Weather Permitting)

Admission
Status from 11/2020
 We don't know the fees.
Contact
Tel.:+1-503-393-2424  eMail:office antiquepowerland.com  
Homepage
to Location / Directions
www.antiquepowerland.com/willow-creek-railroad-museum
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Location / Directions
N45.052153° W122.980497°N45°3.12918' W122°58.82982'N45°3'7.7508" W122°58'49.7892"
Brooks is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Oregon, United States. Brooks is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area.
It is located about nine miles north of Salem near Oregon Route 99E on French Prairie.
Powerland Heritage Park is located in the heart of the Willamette Valley near I-5 and exit 263.

Willow Creek Railroad Museum is located on the grounds of Powerland Heritage Park
Description

Willow Creek Railroad Museum (WCRR):
Willow Creek Railroad (WCRR) operates a 1/8th scale railroad at Powerland Heritage Park. WCRR Museum began as an added attraction to Antique Powerland in 1975.  In 1993 WCRR became an official organization of PHP.  

In 1998 the members started the planning stages of a completely new layout which would more than double our trackage. In 2001 we completed the track portion of our new plan to enlarge our track to over 5,500 feet (1.7 km), which allowed us to handle larger live steam locomotives and provide more of a feeling of a prototypical railroad. This first phase of the project took almost five years to complete - although no layout is ever complete.

Since the main track was installed, we have continued to upgrade and expand our railroad. The upgrades have included more storage for trains with additional sidings, carbarns, new roundhouse and a period station cover. We have also been upgrading and adding to our block signal system which includes signal bridges to illustrate how trains safely follow each other.

We provide a historical account of what early steam and diesel railroading was like – the smells, sights and sounds – on a model railroad – as such, we are not an amusement park ride. Our steam and diesel-powered trains are 1:8 scale replicas and run on 7 ½” gauge track - large enough for the whole family to ride!
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