Wichita Falls Railroad Museum, Railroad museum in Wichita Falls, Texas

The Wichita Falls Railroad Museum is a railroad museum in Wichita Falls, Texas, with a collection of vintage locomotives, rolling stock, and railroad artifacts. The exhibits are displayed across both indoor and outdoor spaces at Depot Square and include various vehicles from different periods of rail history.

The museum was founded in 1980 and relocated several times before settling at Depot Square in 1992. It housed the Fort Worth & Denver steam engine No. 304, reflecting the railroad transportation that shaped the region since the 19th century.

The museum preserves the railroad heritage of Wichita Falls, which served as a major rail hub starting in 1882. Visitors can see passenger cars, dining cars, and postal service vehicles that show how train travel shaped daily life in the city.

The museum has been closed since November 2020, and its rolling stock sits behind locked gates at the Depot Square site of the former Wichita Falls Union Station. Check the museum's Facebook page for news of the planned full reopening before travelling. Volunteers and donations are still being sought to speed up restoration work.

The Missouri-Kansas-Texas No. 1029, built in 1947, was the first diesel switcher the railroad assigned to Wichita Falls. It survives as a dummy unit: the scrapyard that bought it kept the engine and traction motors, so the museum received the locomotive without its drive assembly.