It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Opened in 1983, the museum is operated by the city and features preserved locomotives, equipment and artifacts from the Tooele Valley Railway, International Smelting and Refining Company, and other railroad & mining artifacts.

[2] The complex is significant for its historic role in conversion of Tooele from a farming-based to an industrial town.

The railroad depot was the headquarters of the Tooele Valley Railway; and is the most significant surviving artifact with association to the smelter east of Tooele that operated from 1910 to 1972.

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