Great Plains Transportation Museum
Great Plains Transportation Museum is a museum in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 396 m. The nearest named place is Museum of World Treasures, a museum 0.1 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 129 miles off.
The story
The Great Plains Transportation Museum ("GPTM") is a railroad museum in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is also bome to the Kansas Railroad Hall of Fame. The museum -- adjacent to an active railroad, and across a street from the city's former train station, downtown -- has several locomotives and other railroad cars, vintage and modern, and indoor exhibits and a gift shop. Visitors are allowed to board some of the cars, including locomotives, and manipulate controls.
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Wikidata Q5599787, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 396 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 128.7 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Naftzger Park: 0.1 mi
- Chester I. Lewis Reflection Square Park: 0.4 mi
- Heritage Square Park: 0.5 mi
- Finlay Ross Park: 0.5 mi
- Hyde Park: 0.6 mi
- 99 Words and Phraises Coined by Shakespeare: 0.1 mi
- Strength Through the Spirit of Growth: 0.2 mi
- The Night Sky: 0.2 mi
- Plains of Creativity and Kindness is Magic: 0.3 mi
- Love Anyway: 0.3 mi
- Museum of World Treasures: 0.1 mi
- Wichita Toy Train Museum: 0.3 mi
- Kansas African American Museum: 0.8 mi
- Kansas African American Museum: 0.8 mi
- Exploration Place - Science and Discovery Center: 1.0 mi
- The Wichita Botanica Gardens: 2.0 mi
- Gallery: 2.9 mi
- art gallery: 2.9 mi
- Display Gallery: 2.9 mi
- Display Gallery: 2.9 mi
- Vietnam War Memorial: 0.9 mi
- Vietnamese American Community Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Keeper of the Plains: 1.2 mi
- Kansas Fallen Firefighters Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Final Call: 1.2 mi
- Hilltop Community Garden: 2.5 mi
- Mulvane Community Garden: 14.6 mi
- Bartlett Arboretum: 20.5 mi
- Textron TAPD Outdoor Break Area: 6.3 mi
- Meadowlark Farm Picnic Site: 16.8 mi
- Swim Beach: 15.2 mi
- Swim Beach: 15.3 mi
- Annelly: 21.0 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:07 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:09 | 20:16 | 20:55 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:53 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:42 | 16:34 | 17:15 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 37 | 47 | 56 | 66 | 76 | 81 | 79 | 71 | 58 | 46 | 35 |
| Precip in | 0.8 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wichita WX, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/366765998
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