Hey gang,
Just got back from Sacramento. WOW! Went to the rail museum up there and they have a huge upstairs area dedicated to model and toy trains. I loved all the S gauge, S scale and O scale items they had. I took too few pictures to justify my visit!
If you are interested in seeing some great prototypes and a few nice models, follow the link:
http://www.qualitymodelrailroads.com/sacrail.html
Regards,
Tom P. Metzger
e-mail: MetzgerTrains@aol.com
Glad you liked it! I volunteer at the CSRM as a docent, and it is as much fun to work there as it is to visit. I also built the HO scale mini diorama on the second floor, so I tend to be rather proud of that bit of the museum…
Tom
The Southern Pacific P8 number 2467 is an oil burner, not coal as listed on the web site, and came to one of the railfairs a few years ago.
The California Museum is a great one for sure. Thanks for sharing.
I must have saw that HO diorama at some point! I liked the model exhibits, especially the old 1930s Marklin stuff (I am a sucker for the German trains). It was VERY SMART to make the big layout a Standard Gauge fair…very creative, and boy, can those trains run! The upstairs alone, I can honestly say, puts many a BIG smile on everyone who sees it! Thank you for sharing and for supporting the museum, and pass along thanks to your co-workers!
Warm Regards,
Tom P. Metzger
Thanks for the heads-up on my error about coal vs. oil. I will update the page as soon as I can get to it. Funny that the little 0-6-0 slope back was a coal burner! I expected that puffer to have a Vanderbuilt tender when I visited.
Warm Regards,
Tom P. Metzger
Tom–
So glad you liked our museum here in Sacramento. I visit it very often and think it’s one of the best of its kind in the country.
A note on that 4-2-4–it’s the “C.P.Huntington”, of course named after one of the original Big Four builders of the Central Pacific. It was Central Pacific #3, then later Southern Pacific #1. It was one of several of its wheel arrangement utilized in the building of the transcontinental railroad, and for years was on display outside the Southern Pacific passenger terminal here in Sacramento (along with the cab-forward).
It also has the honor of being one of the ‘movie stars’ of one of the first epic silent westerns–John Ford’s 1925 THE IRON HORSE. There’s an astonishing scene in the film of the locomotive being pulled over the Sierra by a team of horses.
Tom [:D]