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California - Travel Town
Los Angeles, CA - Travel Town, Griffith Park. In the late 1940s, Charley Atkins, a Recreation and Parks employee, along with a handful of rail enthusiast friends, had the idea that a steam locomotive would make an attractive addition at the Griffith Park miniature railroad ride. Travel Town was dedicated on December 14, 1952. The concept of a combined transportation museum and recreation center blossomed, and wishes for donations were generously fulfilled. In 1965, Travel Town's exhibits were re-grouped, and the park re-dedicated. Today, Travel Town is in a state of new growth and development. Charley Atkins passed away in 1959, but he left Los Angeles a grand legacy at Travel Town.
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California - Western America Railroad Museum
Barstow, CA - The Western America Railroad Museum collects, preserves and shares the history of railroading in the Pacific Southwest for all who love railroads and railroading. W.A.R.M. provides educational forums with interpretive and historical displays that focuses on both Railroad History and the development of Railroad Technology. The Western America Rail Museum is proud to be housed in the legendary "Casa Del Desierto".
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California - Western Railway Museum
Rio Vista Junction, CA - The Western Railway Museum gives visitors the opportunity to ride historic streetcars and interurban electric trains from all over California and other western states. Streetcars loop the shaded picnic grounds. Interurban cars run over the restored main line of the old Sacramento Northern Railway. With over 50 historic cars on display, railway exhibits, the Museum Bookstore and Gift Shop and the large, shaded picnic grounds, the Western Railway Museum is ideal for family and group outings.
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California - Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad
Fish Camp, CA - Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad. An exciting 4-mile railroad excursion at Yosemite Park's south gate on highway 41. Ride into history where powerful locomotives once hauled massive log trains through the Sierra mountains. Where mighty lumberjacks felled the timber and flumes carried lumber to the distant valley below. The Sierra National Forest's majestic woods provide the backdrop for the narrow gauge journey back in time.
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California - Yreka Western Railroad
Montague, CA - The Yreka Western Railroad is a common carrier short line railroad and has been in continuous operation for 118 years. The Yreka Western Railroad is an active freight railroad with year round freight operations. In cooperation with the Rocky Mountain Railway & Mining Museum, steam powered excursion train rides operate from May through October between Historic Yreka and the "Old West" town of Montague, the same experience passengers have enjoyed since 1889. Yreka Western Railroad and the Blue Goose Steam Excursion train, its historic depot, and grounds are owned and operated by the Rocky Mountain Railway & Mining Museum (a non-profit corporation).
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California - Yreka Western Railroad
Yreka, CA - The Yreka Western Railroad Blue Goose Steam Excursion is owned and operated by the Rocky Mountain Railroad & Mining Museum of Denver, CO., (a non-profit organization). Donations are welcome and tax deductable. Information for becoming a member of the museum can be found here.
The Blue Goose excursion train travels over a railway that was first established in 1889, chugging, clanking and hissing over Butcher Hill in Yreka then down through the scenic Shasta Valley with majestic 14,162 foot, snowcapped Mt. Shasta dominating the vista, crossing the Shasta River and continuing to the old cattle town of Montague, California. The total distance traveled is approximately 7.5 miles one way and takes approximately 1 hour to arrive (depends upon how many cows are on the track). Passengers will disembark the train to have lunch either in a small park or one of the nearby restaurants.
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Colorado - Colorado Railroad Museum
Golden, CO - The Colorado Railroad Museum is recognized as one of the best privately supported rail museums in
the United States. It is owned and operated by the Colorado Railroad Historical Foundation, a 501 (c)(3)
not-for-profit corporation. This "can't miss" site for the rail fan features over 70 pieces of historic narrow and standard gauge locomotives and cars exhibited on 12 acres at the foot of North Table Mountain, near
Golden, CO.
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Colorado - Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
Antonito CO & Chama NM - This is America's most authentic steam railroad, just as it was for a century, from the coal tipple to the conductor's smile. Twisting and turning through the beautiful San Juan Mountains on tracks that tamed the West, you'll cross the Colorado - New Mexico border eleven times. Count them as you look down from Windy Point, up at the spires of Phantom Curve, or into the depths of Toltec Gorge.
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Colorado - Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
Antonito CO & Chama NM - Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad by Brian Fitz. One of the crown jewels of steam railroading in the U.S. has to be the Cumbres and Toltec
Scenic Railroad. Jointly owned by the states of Colorado and New Mexico, the railroad
functions as a living museum. With over 60 miles of former Denver and Rio Grande narrow
gauge mainline track, this is a chance to experience what railroading was like before the
automobile (the only thing missing are the Pullman cars. Sigh...).
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Colorado - Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge
Durango, CO - Coal-fired, steam-powered, iron horses. Vintage Coaches. Travel the route that miners & visionaries carved out of the Rocky Mountains, high above the rushing Animas River. This historic train has been in continuous operation for over 120 years, carrying passengers behind vintage steam locomotives and rolling stock indigenous to the line. Relive the sights and sounds of yesteryear for a spectacular journey on board the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
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Colorado - Forney Transportation Museum
Denver, CO - Discover some of the world's most rare and exotic means of transportation. You'll see hundreds of displays of some of
America's most fantastic treasures. Old steam tractor, antique engines, old and prototype aircraft, fire engines, trains and cars,
are just a few of the many wonderful vehicles of the past, that are there for your viewing enjoyment.
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Colorado - Fort Collins Municipal Railway
Fort Collins, CO - Fort Collins Municipal Railway. We operate the only original restored city streetcar in the Western United States. Car 21 is one of four single-truck Birneys purchased by the City in 1919. Along with additional Birneys, they provided daily service until the lines were replaced by buses in 1951. After Car 21 sat in a park for almost three decades, we restored it and rebuilt the line down Mountain Ave. We have operated the car continuously each Summer since 1985.
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Colorado - Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
Antonito CO & Chama NM - Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad - The Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, or "The Friends," is a nonprofit organization which shares with the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic RR Commission the stewardship of a unique railroad property of important historic significance and remarkable scenic beauty. Our mission is to preserve and interpret the railroad and to support the operation of the C&TS RR for the people of Colorado and New Mexico who own it, and the tens of thousands of visitors who come to be transported back in time through the beauty of the San Juan Mountains.
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Colorado - Georgetown Loop Railroad
Georgetown, CO - Journey back in time on the Colorado Historical Society's Georgetown Loop Railroad! Passengers at the turn of the century hailed it as the "far famed Loop", a marvel of engineering skill and the most complex railroad loop in the world. Today's railroad takes you over the reconstructed Devil's Gate High Bridge which stands 95 feet above Clear Creek and through the same spectacular Colorado mountain scenery that visitors of yesteryear enjoyed.
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Colorado - Leadville, Colorado & Southern
Leadville, CO - Originating in "the highest incorporated city in North America," the LC&S takes passengers along the old Denver, South Park & Pacific and Colorado & Southern lines to the Continental Divide. But, as the old addage states, "It's not the destination, but the journey that's important." This journey is full of breath-taking panoramas across the Arkansas River Valley and humorous narratives about Leadville's colorful past. Mining and railroading were a large part of the local history, and today's passengers will find it easy to step back in time on the Leadville, Colorado & Southern.
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