Adobe Mountain Desert Park (Railroad Park) | |
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Type | Railroad Park with Museum |
Location | 23280 North 43rd Avenue Glendale, Arizona |
Coordinates | 33°41′45″N 112°09′23″W / 33.6959°N 112.1564°W |
Operated by | Sahuaro Central |
Website | www |
The Adobe Mountain Desert Park a.k.a. "The Railroad Park" is a park complex that houses the Sahuaro Central Railroad Heritage preservation Society, Sahuaro Central Railroad Museum, Arizona Model Railroading Society, and the Maricopa Live Steamers. The approximately 160-acre Adobe Mountain Desert Railroad Park is located south of Pinnacle Peak Road on 43rd Avenue in the City of Glendale, Arizona.
In addition, it has several World War II-era Internment Camp Houses, originally intended as temporary housing at the Leupp Isolation Center. This was an Indian boarding school on the Navajo Nation, which was converted to house Japanese-American internees considered to be troublemakers at other internment camps, after these and other Japanese-American citizens had been forcibly removed from the West Coast.