San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum
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The San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum, in San Luis Obispo, California, was founded to preserve the railroad history of California and the Central Coast by collecting, restoring, displaying and operating historic railroad equipment.[1]
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[edit] The collection
Rolling stock is already in the collection and the museum is constructing a physical museum. [2]
The collection currently includes:[3]
[edit] Locomotives
- Dagny No. 7 Baldwin 0-4-2RT, Ex Kiso Forest Railway No. 7
- Plymouth Diesel No. 594
[edit] Rolling Stock
- The La Condesa, a 1926 Pullman Observation Car [4]
- Southern Pacific Bay Window Caboose No. 1886
- Southern Pacific Bay Window Caboose No. 409
- Southern Pacific Boxcar Class B-50-13
- Pacific Coast Railway Boxcars
[edit] Other Railroad Equipment
- Southern Pacific MOW Velocipede
- Southern Pacific Baggage Carts
[edit] Local railroad companies
- The Santa Maria Valley Railroad operates a freight rail service in and around San Luis Obispo. [5]
- The Pacific Coast Railway, in nearby Santa Margarita Ranch, has four historic narrow gauge steam trains with excursions events for the public. It is independent of the museum.[6]
- Amtrak operates passenger rail service in San Luis Obispo (Amtrak station).
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.slorrm.com/history.html slorrmuseum.. History page. access date: 5/30/2010
- ^ http://www.slorrm.com/stock.html slorrmuseum. Rolling stock page. access date: 5/30/2010
- ^ "Rolling Stock and Equipment". SLORM. http://www.slorrm.com/stock.html. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
- ^ "San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum Rail Car Comes to The Santa Maria Valley Railroad". SMVRR. 22 October 2007. http://www.smvrr.com/071022.html. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
- ^ "Transportation Gateway for the Central Coast". SMVRR. http://www.smvrr.com/index.html. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
- ^ http://pcrailroad.wordpress.com/ p.c.railroad.co. Intro Blog. access date: 5/30/2010
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