5848 CA 12, Suisun City, California. County/parish: Solano.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 11, 2012. NRIS 12000402.
5 contributing buildings. 23 contributing structures.Also known as:
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.
Originally named the California Railway Museum, it was renamed the Western Railway Museum at the beginning of 1985. The museum is operated by the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association (BAERA), a non-profit organization.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862025