Steelworks Museum of Industry

Steelworks Museum of Industry and Culture is located at 215 Canal St, Pueblo, CO. This location is in the Bessemer neighborhood. This business specializes in Museums & Galleries, Travel Agents and Tourist Attractions.

New in 2007, this facility focuses on the history and impact of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation, which began in the 1870s to provide steel rails for the region's railroads and grew to include mining and steel and iron production, and then merged with a fuel company. At one time it operated mines and quarries throughout the West, and the company was the single largest private landowner in...

Run by the Bessemer Historical Society, the Museum of Industry and Culture is a showcase of the local industries through the years and how that shaped the culture an civilization of the area.

The historic CF&I Mine Rescue Car No. 1 (MRC) is now open for tours during regular museum hours. Located behind the Steelworks Museum, this unique rail car served as a rolling rescue vehicle and ambulance, responding to accidents at CF&I coal mines in southern Colorado from 1923 to 1940. When not in use for emergencies, the MRC was a "rolling classroom" going to the various mines to teach mine...