Outside the Shafter Depot Museum features many interesting displays including two Cabooses, a Santa Fe Telephone Booth, Railroad Signals, Maintenance of Way Rolling Stock, a Refrigerator Car, an old Richland School Bell, an Aeromotor windmill, the 2010 California Center of Population Commemorative Monument and the Mel Vaux Pump House.
Mel Vaux Pump House
The Pump House contains low-emission Bourke Engine built in 1955 by Mel Vaux. See this unique opposed cylinder one-stoke engine which is coupled to an irrigation pump of the same vintage. The building also contains water and irrigation exhibits.
Shafter Depot Museum 