RailGiants Train Museum
Established | 1954 |
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Location | Fairplex, Pomona, California |
Coordinates | 34°05′01″N 117°46′13″W / 34.083641°N 117.770251°W |
Type | Rail transport display |
Collection size | Depot and rolling stock |
Public transit access | San Bernardino Line (Pomona (North) station) |
Website |
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The RailGiants Train Museum is a historic railroad museum at Fairplex, Pomona, California, hosted by the Southern California Chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society. It is open to the public the second weekend of each month.
Station
The collection is headlined by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway train station moved from Arcadia, California, in 1969. The 1887-built station is of gingerbread Victorian architecture and features a collection of railroadiana.
Rolling stock
Number | Image | Railroad | Builder | Type | Built | Added to collection | Notes |
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2 | Outer Harbor Terminal Railway | Schenectady Locomotive Works | 0-6-0 | 1887 | 1955 | Originally Santa Fe 590. | |
3 | Fruit Growers Supply Company | Climax Locomotive Works | Climax locomotive | 1909 | 1954 | Class C Climax. Original item of the display. | |
3 | United States Potash Company | Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) | 2-8-0 | 1903 | 1956 | Originally Morenci Southern Railroad. 3-foot gauge. | |
6 | New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad | New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad | Private railroad car | 1923 | Named William Fletcher | ||
1314 | Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway | American Car and Foundry Company | Cupola caboose | 1923 | Retired 1955. | ||
3450 | Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway | BLW | ATSF 3450 class | 1927 | 1955 | ||
3501 | UP | EMD | SD40-2C | 1972 | Traded for UP 4014 and is the only operational rolling stock on the premesis. | ||
5021 | Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) | American Locomotive Company | 4-10-2 | 1926 | 1956 | Only Southern Pacific class SP-2 left, and one of 4 remaining three-cylinder locomotives in the United States. | |
6915 | UP | EMD | DDA40X | 1986 | Undergoing cosmetic restoration. | ||
9000 | UP | American Locomotive Company | 4-12-2 | 1926 | 1956 | Largest non-articulated steam locomotive in existence. | |
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway | horse car |
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