The Scottsdale Railroad and Mechanical Society saved a former mail/baggage car of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad from destruction. They paid to have it moved to the park on Monday July12, 1982 from a rail siding in Tempe (traveling dismantled on a flatbed truck up Hayden Road to Eight Street). The cost of the car was $2,000. The cost to move it to the park from Tempe was $6,000. According to a report in the Scottsdale Progress, “It is destined to become a classroom of sorts where school visitors will start a tour of the Railroad Park, watching a slide show relating to the park’s history.”
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