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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 safety to the employees and training on-site response teams. From that time until 1993 the MRC served as the office of the Scrapyard Foreman inside the steel mill.
Following the purchase of the CF&I assets by Oregon Steel Mills, the MRC was donated to the Pueblo County Historical Society who began soliciting funds to restore the car. After 2 years and almost $400,000 worth of work the MRC came back to Pueblo and was formally turned over to The Bessemer Historical Society for placement on the museum grounds.
This wonderful artifact contains numerous exhibits relating to coal mining and mine safety.
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