The museum, located in an old Union Pacific depot, is open only during the warm months (late May through early October) because trains only ran to West Yellowstone during the summer, the museum‘s website notes. Heavy snows covered the railroad tracks the rest of the year.
The original depot, constructed in 1908, had only one room, but the following year wings for waiting rooms (separate facilities for men and women) and women‘s dressing rooms were added. Today, one wing houses an exhibition on the history of flight in West Yellowstone, while the opposite wing has small theaters for viewing movies the museum shows.
Tourists can watch educational movies
These movies include the disastrous 1988 forest fires in Yellowstone National Park that almost destroyed the town of West Yellowstone, the 1959 Hebgen earthquake that killed 28 people and formed a new lake when a mountain came tumbling down, and the 1964 Montana centennial train.
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