It was built by the Canadian National Railway in 1909 and later served Via Rail.

[1] The Rusty Relics Museum was founded as a non-profit organisation in 1973 thanks to a Youth for Employment Grant from the government.

Seven women went around Carlyle gathering artefacts and interviewing older residents to start the founding of the museum.

In 1976, the museum bought the old train station and had it moved to its present location.

[2] The museum houses a working telegraph station, 10,000 catalogued artefacts, a Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) caboose and jigger car on a railway track.