Western Railway Museum |
94585 Suisun City, CA, United States of America (USA) (California) |
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Address |
5848 State Highway 12
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Floor area | only roughly guessed: 15 000 m² / 161 459 ft² |
Opening times
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Adults: $10; Seniors, over 65: $9; Children (2-14): $7 | ||||||||
Status from 04/2013
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Saturday, Sunday 10:30am - 5pm; Summer = Memorial Day - Labor Day: Wednesday - Sunday 10:30am - 5pm |
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Homepage | www.wrm.org |
Location / Directions |
Approximately 12 miles East of Highway 80, on Highway 12. PUBLIC TRANSIT Take a Capitol Corridor train to the Suisun City/Fairfield station. From the Suisun City/Fairfield Train Station, use Rio Vista Transit’s “Delta Breeze State Route 12 Express” (AKA Bus Route 50) bus service to get the Museum. |
Description | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: 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. The Western Railway Museum has the largest collection of Sacramento Northern Railway equipment in existence, and the museum also operates a line of the former Sacramento Northern as a heritage railway with scheduled excursions for visitors. Visitor InformationThe Western Railway Museum gives visitors the opportunity to ride historic streetcars and interurban electric trains from all over California and other western states. Streetcars loop the shaded picnic grounds. Interurban cars run over the restored main line of the old Sacramento Northern Railway. With over 50 historic cars on display, railway exhibits, the Museum Store and Gift Shop and the large, shaded picnic grounds, the Western Railway Museum is ideal for family and group outings.Museum GroundsThe grounds of the Western Railway Museum include a large car house with historic electric-powered rail vehicles you can stroll through. The 1.5 acre shaded picnic grounds are perfect for family and group outings.Electric OperationsVolunteers operate authentic, restored trains every day we are open. Follow the paved walkway from the Visitor Center to the boarding platforms at the north end of Car House One. Your admission ticket to the Museum is good all day, and you can ride as often as you wish.Presently the Museum offers 15-minute, mile long streetcar rides around the grounds, and a 50-minute interurban ride over the re-electrified portion of the former SN interurban mainline to Gum Grove. Interurban trips typically depart at 11am, 12:30pm, 2pm, and 3:30pm, whenever the Museum is open to the public. Streetcar trips typically depart every 30 minutes on Saturdays and Sundays. All trips are subject to change, and weather permitting. |
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