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The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is a museum in San Diego, California, that focuses on the heritage of railroading through model railroads. It was founded in 1982. The museum is located on the lower level of Casa de Balboa in Balboa Park. [1] [2] At 27,000 sq. ft., it is the largest model railroad museum in North America.
The Model Railroad Club of Toronto Toronto, ON [6] Arizona Model Railroading Society, Phoenix, AZ [7] Golden State Model Railroad Museum, Point Richmond, Richmond, California [8] Highland Park Society of Model Railroad Engineers, also known as the Highland Pacific Club of San Gabriel, CA [9] San Diego Model Railroad Museum, San Diego, CA [10]
San Diego Trolley Siemens-Duewag U2 cars 1008 and 1003 arrived in March 2016 and March 2018 (respectively), joining original San Diego Electric Railway PCC cars 508 and 528 as part of the San Diego collection. The 1008 and 1003 operate on select weekends at the museum independently, and occasionally as a two-car train.
One of the largest N-scale layouts in the world is at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum in California, United States. Pacific Desert Lines [13] is a 1,200-square-foot (110 m 2) layout featuring hand-laid code 40 rail. Each piece of rail is 0.040 inches (1.0 mm) high and is manually affixed to the roadbed by solder to copper-clad ties placed ...
The first SD&A through passenger train "arrives" in San Diego on December 1, 1919 to officially open the line. John D. Spreckels' San Diego Electric Railway (SDERy) made regular stops at the station since its opening, and continued to do so until April 24, 1949, when San Diego adopted an all-bus transit system. [22]
Tenants included the Model Railroad Museum, the San Diego Hall of Champions, and the San Diego Men's Art Club (forerunner of the San Diego Art Institute). In 1978, the building was condemned as unsafe and was temporarily evacuated, but the San Diego Art Institute moved back in after sprinklers were installed.