The South Bay Historical Railroad Society is run by railroad enthusiast volunteers who staff the society's library, buildings, and the Edward Peterman Museum of Railroad History. The museum is housed in the old Santa Clara railroad depot, and has a large collection of historical artifacts, including signals, locomotive headlights, and a velocipede, which is a three-wheeled hand-pumped cart used for track maintenance.

The museum maintains a business class car from the Oregon-Washington Railroad, and has two superb operational model train tracks, one in HO and one in N gauge, which depict various eras in railway history. The society has an extensive library of railroad-related books and materials which can be viewed by society members; admission to the museum is open to the public.

1005 Railroad Avenue, Santa Clara, California 95050, Phone: 408-243-3969

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