Friday, May 31, 2013

Tooele Fireman, Mining, Railroad and Pioneer Museums


We made a list of all the museums in Tooele County, and got to four of them before we were worn out. Grandma Rainey showed us the Utah Firefighters Museum in Deseret Peak Complex. The fireman guide had little vehicles ready for the kids and they had a great time screeching around while we checked out about a million fire trucks.
 
 
We talked the fireman into letting us in the Oquirrh Mountain Mining Museum, which seemed mostly to be mining company propaganda (no judgement!) with some cool trains outside.
 
 
 
Next stop was the Tooele Railroad Museum which was predictably fantastic.
The kitchen in a military personnel car.
The refrigerators in the personnel car.
A model train inside another personnel car.
This bike runs on rails inside a mine.

We had lunch on the pretty grounds. They give rides on a garden train on the weekend, so we'll have to come back.
 
We hit the Daughters and Sons of Utah Pioneers museums next. We had the most patient, most kind, most interesting guide ever at the Sons of Utah Pioneers museum. The woman at the DUP museum was his wife and she was pretty likable herself.
Good luck to Ikey's preschool teacher this fall.
  

 
 

1 comment:

Breezy said...

I love all the fun adventures you do with your kids. These museums are on our list to visit this summer.