The Great Garden Express is coming to Tucson Botanical Gardens
- Grace Trejo, Arizona Daily Star
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The Great Garden Express is coming to Tucson Botanical Gardens. The Great Garden Express brings classic model trains to life! Walk under elevated tracks and spot engines pulling passenger cars and freight through tunnels and over bridges; listen as the trains chug through the Arizona landscape and beloved National Park landmarks.
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The arrival of the railroad brought economic growth to Southern Arizona. A new mural in downtown Tucson looks at how it came together over a century ago.
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