Route 66 Historical Village in Tulsa features an open-air collection of restored railroad, transportation, and oil industry artifacts along with replica features, created to honor the industries that built Tulsa and provide an interactive learning experience. The Southwest Tulsa Chamber of Commerce began developing the concept in 2005, working with the City of Tulsa, Tulsa County through Vision 2025 funds, the Oklahoma Centennial Commission, community businesses, and volunteers to acquire the property and improve the site for historic and thematic attractions. The Red Fork Centennial Derrick was designed, engineered, fabricated, and erected in 2009 with an Oklahoma Centennial Commission grant to symbolize the discovery of oil at Red Fork in 1901, and based on photographs of early steel rigs in the Glenn Pool field it rose 154 feet, then the tallest such derrick in North America. The steam locomotive and tender Meteor/Frisco 4500 were built in 1942 for the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway and carried passengers between Oklahoma City and St. Louis by way of Tulsa until early 1948, then served freight duty before retirement in 1950. Donated to the City of Tulsa in 1954 for display in Mohawk Park, the engine was later restored in downtown Tulsa by railroad and community volunteers with essential support from Town West Sertoma, then moved to the village in 2011 with help from the South Kansas and Oklahoma Lines, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, and Tulsa Sapulpa Union Railway. A tree on the park's east side is a sapling from the Muscogee-Creek Nation's Council Oak Tree at 198 West 18th Street, and both trees commemorate the Muscogee Indian Nation, the original modern settlers to this land in 1836.
