Powerland Heritage Park

06/17/2026

What are you doing on Father's Day? We know what we're doing - the Father's Day Firehouse Fun at Powerland Heritage Park! The event includes:

- Pancake breakfast!
- Tour of the Oregon Fire Service Museum
- Kids bucket brigade
- Junior firefighter challenge course & hose house

What a GREAT way to spend Father's Day!

Note: The adjacent Oregon Electric Railway Museum will also be open and offering trolley rides, with adult fares reduced to Youth fares for this day only!

Come join the fun this Sunday! Your entry fee will help support the phase 2 construction inside the museum!

Father's Day - Sunday, June 21
8am - 1pm
Powerland Heritage Park (I-5, Exit 263)
$12 adults
$10 Seniors & Veterans
$5 Kids
Five and Under: FREE!

06/12/2026

Tomorrow, the Brooks Historical Society at Powerland Heritage Park is hosting a free Bee-themed event at its museum. Guests can enjoy a variety of activities while learning about the many types of bees in Oregon. The museum will be open from 9am - 3pm, and admission is free.

Brooks Historical SocietyLocated at Powerland Heritage Park 3995 Brooklake Rd NEBrooks, OR 97303 Contact Us:Email: [email protected]: Brooks Historical SocietyPO Box 9265 Brooks, OR 97305

06/06/2026

Summer event season is rolling into Powerland Heritage Park!

We have several great June events coming up, and we’d love to see you on campus:

June 13 - Brooks Historical Society Depot Day (free)
June 21 - Oregon Fire Service Museum Father's Day Firehouse Fun!
June 27/28 - Swap Meet at Powerland! (free entry June 28)
June 28 - Willow Creek Railroad Open House (free)

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Check the comments for event flyers with more details.

And don’t forget to mark your calendar for The Great Oregon Steamup on July 25–26 and August 1–2!

The Great Oregon Steam-Up has been voted Best Annual Event in the Best of the Willamette Valley awards for four years in a row, and we can’t wait to welcome everyone back for another incredible year.

See you at Powerland!

05/25/2026

🇺🇸 Remembering and Honoring This Memorial Day

Today, we pause to remember the men and women who gave their lives in service to our country.

This photo, taken during the opening flag-raising ceremony at The Great Oregon Steam-Up in 2023, shows Rick Dominguez of American Legion Cheula Post 92 in McCloud, CA, and Allen Buzzard of American Legion Post 184 in Brownsville, OR.

Moments like this remind us that history is preserved not only in machines, buildings, and artifacts but also in service, sacrifice, and remembrance.

From all of us at Powerland Heritage Park, we remember and honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

05/24/2026

Some moments deserve more than a quick scroll. 📸

Last Friday, the Western Railway Preservation Society put Caboose #3 back on wheels at Powerland Heritage Park! It was a huge milestone in a restoration effort that has been ongoing since 2013.

Built in the early 1940s for the West Side Lumber Co., this little 16-foot caboose has hauled sand into the woods for the Shay steam engines, survived decades of modifications, and spent 30 years sitting at a California RV park before coming to Oregon for preservation and restoration.

The process of putting a caboose back on its trucks (the wheelbases) is something most people never get to witness. It was thrilling to watch the whole thing. And we want you to enjoy it too, so we took these 15 photos for you AND created a highlight video (in the first comment).

Restoration continues, and you can see Caboose #3 in person at The Great Oregon Steamup, the last weekend of July and first weekend of August at Powerland Heritage Park in Brooks, Oregon!

This is the story of the little caboose that could!

05/23/2026

Built in the early 1940s for the West Side Lumber Co., Caboose #3 spent decades hauling sand into the woods for the Shay steam engines. It survived a "circus caboose" makeover and sat abandoned at an RV park in California for 30 years. Caboose #3 is being restored and preserved at its new home.

On Friday, the Western Railway Preservation Society at Powerland Heritage Park put her back on wheels and onto their track. It's all part of a restoration effort that has gone on since 2013.

She's only 16 feet long, but she's got one of the biggest stories in narrow gauge history.

Restoration continues. We'll keep watching. 🚂

Come see Caboose #3 for yourself at The Great Oregon Steam-Up, the last weekend of July and first weekend of August at Powerland Heritage Park!

05/22/2026

Congratulations to the "graduating class" of 2026! Every year, the Western Steam Fiends Assn., Inc. holds a Steam School where people can learn to work with Steam Traction Engines. It's a two-weekend program every Spring. You'll likely see some of these graduates driving around at Powerland Heritage Park soon!

Here is the our class photo for our 2026 Steam School at Powerland Heritage Park.

Jack Salter, Katie Salter, Ada Mattison, Leo Brousseau, Bill Devereaux, Thomas Blaine, Carston Becker, Jasper Huff, Warner Huff, Jodi Cremere, Butch Albrecht, Paul Consani, Joe Baker, Tyler Stirling, David Boyce

Thanks to Paul Consani for getting this photo together!

05/18/2026

These are some of our favorite moments from the 6th Annual S.T.E.A.M.'d Up for Kids, and we are still smiling. 💛

Saturday was our biggest S.T.E.A.M.'d Up for Kids event ever, and every single one of these smiles happened because your family chose to spend the day with us at Powerland Heritage Park. That means everything to us.

Thank you. Truly.

05/16/2026

🎉 TODAY'S THE DAY! It's time for S.T.E.A.M.'d Up for Kids!

Gates open at 9am at Powerland Heritage Park in Brooks, Oregon. We will be here until 4pm with mini train rides, a working blacksmith shop, kids operating real mini excavators, barrel train rides, Build-It Workshop, Lego Pinewood Derby, and so much more across 62 acres and 14 museums.

Kids 12 and under are FREE. Adults and teens 13+ are just $10. Parking is FREE.

Come see us today! 3995 Brooklake Rd NE, Brooks, OR 97303

https://www.antiquepowerland.com/events/steamd-up-for-kids