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California - South Coast Railroad Museum
Goleta, CA - Goleta Depot is a Victorian-styled Southern Pacific Railroad station, built in 1901 by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The historical landmark and architectural treasure is located at picturesque Lake Los Carneros County Park.
The museum features refurnished rooms and station grounds, and a variety of informative displays, hands-on exhibits, artifacts, photographs, and memorabilia.
Info: URL: http://scrm.goletadepot.org/ (Added: 28-Jun-1999)
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California - SPCRR Home
Ardenwood, CA - In 1880 the SPCRR was the South Pacific Coast Railroad, a narrow-gauge railroad that steamed south across the marshes and farms of Alameda and Santa Clara Counties, then wound through the mountains and forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains until it reached the ocean at Santa Cruz.
Today the SPCRR is the Society for the Preservation of Carter Railroad Resources, a railroad museum located in Ardenwood Historic Farm Regional Park in Fremont, California close to the Carter Shops in Newark.
The SPCRR restores equipment representative of those bygone days. Our collection contains 13 cars from the 1870s and 1880s. Most of the cars were built by the Carter Brothers in Newark. We are actively restoring 3 cars and have four cars in service. We have 1-1/2 miles of track and operate a recreation of the original SPCRRs Centerville Branch at Ardenwood. We use draft horses to pull a 1885 North Pacific Coast RR flatcar set up as a picnic car on scheduled runs through farm fields and Eucalyptus groves.
Info: URL: http://www.spcrr.org/ (Added: 13-Jun-2000)
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California - Tehachapi Depot Museum
Tehachapi, CA - The only Southern Pacific No. 23 style depot still existing in its original site. Destroyed by fire in 2008, the Tehachapi Depot has been rebuilt to the original plans and will be open in Spring 2010. It will display a large collection of railroad artifacts and full-size operating railroad signals. Check our web site for further information.
Info: URL: https://www.tehachapidepot.com/ (Added: 1-Nov-2016)
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California - The Centerville Depot
Centerville, CA - The inspiration to preserve the historic depot began with Fremont's petition to bring Amtrak service to Centerville in 1991. The petition worked. On June 4, 1993, Fremont welcomed the return of passenger trains to the Centerville station after an absence of 53 years. In December of 1993, the city of Fremont acquired ownership of the depot itself and began to plan its restoration. Of more than sixty "No. 23"-style depots constructed by Southern Pacific between 1896 and 1916, less than a dozen exist today and the Centerville depot is the only one used in rail passenger service.
Info: URL: https://www.nilesdepot.org/centerville/home.html (Added: 7-Jan-1999)
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California - The Southern California Scenic Railway Association
Fullerton, CA - Southern California Scenic Railway Association, Inc., a nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to promoting public appreciation of Southern California rail history and rail safety. The SCSRA's current focus is assisting the Fullerton Railway Plaza Association (FRPA) in their annual Railroad Days event, as well as their worthy long-range goal of realizing a first-class railroad museum, the Southern California Museum at Fullerton.
Info: URL: http://scsra.org/ (Added: 28-Jun-1999)
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California - Timber Heritage Association
Eureka, CA - A developing museum and tourist railroad located in an 1893 lumber company roundhouse and shop complex. The complex is located in the former lumber company town of Samoa. The collection includes 9 local (redwood logging) logging locomotives and many other logging/timber artifacts.
The Timber Heritage Association (THA) is a volunteer based group whose purpose is to create awareness and appreciation for the impact of timber, logging, and railroads on the settlement and growth of Humboldt County.
To that effort THA is working to create a timber heritage and rail museum and develop a Humboldt Bay excursion train. The combined projects will not only impress on visitors and residents alike the tremendous role the timber industry has played in the history of California and the West, but also create a tourist destination and educational facility for all to enjoy.
Info: URL: http://timberheritage.org/ (Added: 28-Oct-2010)
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California - Travel Town
Los Angeles, CA - Travel Town, Griffith Park. In the late 1940s, Charley Atkins, a Recreation and Parks employee, along with a handful of rail enthusiast friends, had the idea that a steam locomotive would make an attractive addition at the Griffith Park miniature railroad ride. Travel Town was dedicated on December 14, 1952. The concept of a combined transportation museum and recreation center blossomed, and wishes for donations were generously fulfilled. In 1965, Travel Town's exhibits were re-grouped, and the park re-dedicated. Today, Travel Town is in a state of new growth and development. Charley Atkins passed away in 1959, but he left Los Angeles a grand legacy at Travel Town.
Info: URL: https://www.traveltown.org/ (Added: 31-Oct-1998)
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California - Truckee Donner Railroad Society
Truckee, CA - The mission of the Truckee Donner Railroad Society is to perpetuate the study and advancement of knowledge of working railroads in the Truckee Donner area with the goal of building a railroad museum to preserve and share what we have learned.
Truckee Railroad Museum is located next to the historic railroad station in downtown Truckee. This adds historical significance to the area, as the caboose is from the Southern Pacific Railroad and was used in the area. Paint for the caboose matches the original SP paint scheme. Inside the museum are stories, pictures, recreations, and railroad artifacts depicting the impact of railroads in the formation and development of Truckee. The First Transcontinental Railroad, Logging Railroads, and Tourism by Rail all played an important part in Truckee's history.
Info: URL: http://www.truckeedonnerrailroadsociety.com/ (Added: 14-Mar-2014)
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