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Review:
Located in Old Sacramento, California State Railroad Museum is a 225,000-square feet monument to the role of the "iron horse" in linking California to the rest of the country.
The museum exhibits, as well as a number of meticulously restored locomotives and railroad cars,tell the fascinating story of the California railroad.Permanent exhibits, or rolling stock of the museum,are exhibits built between 1874 and 1950, from the caboose to the opulent private car, both freight and passenger.
This part of the collection tells the main points of railroad history - moving mail by rail, how refrigerator cars revolutionized the American diet, romantic long-distance train trips, and the pleasure of dining onboard.
The Museum also has a fleet of 17 maintenance cars used between 1905 and 1974 such as cranes, flangers, snowplows and fire truck on rails.
The museum also has excursion train rides by closed coach cars, a first-class observation car, andopen-air gondolas.
125 I St, Sacramento, California 95814, Phone: 916-445-7387, Map
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