Pacific Southwest Railway Museum
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| Founded | 18 October 1959[1] |
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| Founder | Eric Sanders, et al. |
| Type | Public-benefit corporation |
| 95-2374478 (CA 501(c)(3)) | |
| Focus | Railroad museum, historic preservation |
| Location |
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| Coordinates | 32°36′46″N 116°28′21″W / 32.612769°N 116.472417°WCoordinates: 32°36′46″N 116°28′21″W / 32.612769°N 116.472417°W |
| Origins | San Diego County Rail Museum[1] |
Area served | San Diego County |
| Mission | The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association, Inc. is dedicated to preserving the physical legacy and the experience of rail transportation. Programs address the historical, social, economic and technical impact of railroading with particular emphasis on railroads of San Diego County and the larger systems with which they connected in the United States and Mexico.[3] |
| Website |
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Formerly called | San Diego Railroad Museum |
The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum is a gathering of two separate railroad museums controlled by the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association. The primary museum is located in Campo, on the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway line. The secondary museum is located in La Mesa.
Facilities
Campo
Since 1986, the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association has operated all-volunteer train excursions in Campo, CA from the restored 1916 Depot. These trains are powered by vintage diesel-electric locomotives.[4][5] The museum also has several historic railroad cars and locomotives on display, including five steam locomotives, fifteen diesel locomotives and many other pieces of rolling stock.[6] A large display building houses part of the railroad equipment collection which allow visitors to view or walk through the equipment. The museum is also home of the Southwest Railway Library formerly housed in the Santa Fe depot baggage building in downtown San Diego.[7]
La Mesa
The museum manages the original La Mesa depot in downtown La Mesa, next to the San Diego Trolley's La Mesa Boulevard stop on the Orange Line. It is the oldest structure in town and is the sole surviving San Diego and Cuyamaca Railway station.[8] The museum's renovation of the depot won an award from San Diego's historic preservation society, Save Our Heritage Organisation.[9] Next to the depot is a display train consisting of steam locomotive Mojave Northern Railroad #3, a Pacific Fruit Express reefer car, and a Southern Pacific Railroad caboose.
In Media
- Part of the There Goes a... episode "There Goes a Train" features the railroad museum in Campo.[10] The video was made in 1994 and the museum was closed for the week of shooting. In the video, the museum's ALCO MRS-1 locomotive was pulling a 3-car Golden State excursion train heading east.[6]
- Irish girl group B*Witched filmed the music video of their hit single "Jesse Hold On" in the station in 1999.[10]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Report of San Diego County Rail Museum Activity" 1. Pacific Southwest Railway Museum, REPORT Collection. 5 January 1960. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
- ↑ "Pacific Southwest Railway Museum". Retrieved 2015-04-26.
- ↑ "A Chronological History of the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association, Incorporated". PSRM.Org. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- ↑ Nancy Ray, "The Ties That Bind : Little 'Railroad That Can' Maintains Glory of Ribbon of Steel's Golden Age", Los Angeles Times, November 30, 1986.
- ↑ Nancy Ray, "Rail Museum Gets Up Steam : Visitors Will Soon Be Offered Rides on Trains", Los Angeles Times, May 20, 1985.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Houk, Randy. "SDRM Equipment Roster or PSRM Equipment Roster". Pacific Southwest Railway Museum. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
- ↑ Croft, Byron (July 18, 2014). "The Impossible Library: the new Campo attraction". The Alpine Sun. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
- ↑ Troy Corley, "10 Favorite Treks to the Tracks that relate the colorful history of railroads joining the East with the West", Los Angeles Times, February 20, 1986.
- ↑ Lenore Look, "Preserving Heritage: Heroic Efforts Garner Prizes From SOHO", Los Angeles Times, May 16, 1985.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "SDRM filmography or PSRM filmography". Retrieved 2012-11-29.