Downtown Tulsa

This historically accurate, 24’ diorama depicts the north side of downtown Tulsa circa 1957. Included on the modules from left to right are the Tulsa interlocking where tracks from four railroads all crossed and inter-connected, the Frisco Freight building, the 1930’s art deco Tulsa Union Depot with the Main Street overpass, the Railway Express Agency facilities, and the Denver underpass. You are looking south and the downtown Tulsa sky-scrapers like the National Bank of Tulsa and Philtower would be just behind the skyboard of these modules.

Old photographs from the archives of the Tulsa World and Tulsa Tribune were utilized along with numerous photos from private files to determine how the north side of downtown Tulsa appeared during this time frame. Parts of our original version of this diorama were featured in the May/June 2003 issue of N-Scale Railroading Magazine.