Galt Historic Railway Park

The Galt Historic Railway Park is a unique outdoor heritage attraction located in the County of Warner in southern Alberta, near the Canada-United States border crossing at Coutts-Sweetgrass. The park preserves and displays a collection of historic Canadian Pacific Railway equipment in an authentic prairie setting, celebrating the vital role the railway played in opening southern Alberta to settlement and agriculture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the highlights of the collection is the relocated 1890 International Railway Station, originally sited at the Coutts-Sweetgrass border crossing — a rare surviving example of the small border railway stations that once dotted the CPR’s branch line network across the prairies. The park also features a variety of vintage rolling stock including steam and diesel locomotives, passenger cars, freight equipment, and railway service vehicles that bring the early history of prairie railroading to life. The surrounding landscape of short-grass prairie and wide-open Alberta skies provides an atmospheric backdrop that evokes the era of CPR expansion across the west. The Galt Historic Railway Park is a distinctive destination for heritage enthusiasts and a fitting memorial to the countless railway workers and prairie settlers whose lives were shaped by the iron road in southern Alberta.