Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Western Railway Museum, in Solano County, California is located on Highway 12 between Rio Vista and Suisun. The museum is built along the former mainline of the Sacramento Northern Railway . Their collection focuses on trolleys , as it is primarily a museum of interurban transit equipment.
Enthusiastic ex-railway workers are on hand, to give a personal insight into many of the exhibits. There is a series of reconstructions of areas of work, such as office, stores, workshop, signal box and foundry. The museum holds an extensive archive of books, periodicals, photographs, drawings and plans, relating to the Great Western Railway.
Western Pacific 94 is a preserved TP-29 class 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler type steam locomotive built in September 1909 by the American Locomotive Company for the Western Pacific Railroad. It is preserved on display at the Western Railway Museum in Suisun City, California. This locomotive was the first steam locomotive to travel on the Feather River Route.
Travel Town Museum, Los Angeles, California [1] 94: September 1909 ALCO-Brooks: TP-29 4-6-0: On static display Western Railway Museum in Suisun City, California [2] 165: November 1919 ALCO-Schenectady S-34 0-6-0: Operational Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California [3] 334: May 1929 ALCO MK-60-71 2-8-2: Stored
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
California State Railroad Museum; California Western Railroad, also called The Skunk Train; Disneyland Railroad (three locomotives are historic) Fillmore and Western Railway - short line used by Hollywood film industry. (Lease agreement ended in 2021) Ghost Town & Calico Railroad in Knott's Berry Farm
The Western America Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located in Barstow, California. [1] The museum collects, preserves and shares the history of railroading in the Pacific Southwest. It is located on the east side of the Harvey House Railroad Depot and is operated by a non-profit organization.
Great Western Railway heritage sites are those places where stations, bridges and other infrastructure built by the Great Western Railway and its constituent railways can still be found. These may be heritage railways , museums, operational railway stations , or isolated listed structures .