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Review:
The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is the world's largest operating model railroad museum. Located in the Casa de Balboa on the Prado in Balboa Park, this unique museum is spread over 28,000 square feet and features four immense scale and model layouts depicting railroads of the Southwest.
The Museum also features a Toy Train Gallery boasting interactive Lionel and Brio layouts for children and state-of-the-art theater lighting, as well as a range of visual displays including ‘Women of the Railroad,’ and ‘Southern Pacific Semaphore.’
The museum houses an excellent research library with an extensive reference collection of books, magazines and photographs related to model railroading, as well as a sizeable collection of railroad timetables and promotional brochures dating from 1893.
1649 El Prado, San Diego, California 92101, Phone: 619-696-0199
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