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The Western Railway Museum, in Solano County, California is located on Highway 12 between Rio Vista and Suisun. The museum is built along the former mainline of the Sacramento Northern Railway . Their collection focuses on trolleys , as it is primarily a museum of interurban transit equipment.
Sacramento Northern Birney car 62 at the Western Railway Museum, Rio Vista, California. A 22-mile (35 km) segment of the SN line in Solano County is owned, operated, and electrified by the Western Railway Museum as a heritage railway. Much of the SN's former equipment is part of the museum's permanent collection. [29]
In 1979, the Western Railway Museum acquired 94, and the engine was moved from Oakland to Rio Vista Junction in April of that year. By the end of 1979, the locomotive was under steam at the museum. It was used in excursion service for the Museum until 1986. [2] As of 2024, No. 94 is on static display inside the Western Railway Museum.
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.
Several streetcars and bridge trains from the Key System are preserved at the Western Railway Museum at Rio Vista Junction in Solano County, as well as a Bridge Unit at the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris, California and a streetcar at Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunk, Maine. [56]
The Peninsular Railway (known to locals as the Pin) was an interurban electrified railway in the U.S. State of California in the United States of America. It served the area between San Jose , Los Gatos , and Palo Alto , comprising much of what is today known as " Silicon Valley ".
Rio Vista: 26.28: SR 84 north / Front Street – Rio Vista, Ryer Island: Interchange; southern terminus of SR 84 northern segment: Solano–Sacramento county line: Rio Vista city limit Rio Vista Bridge over the Sacramento River: Sacramento SAC 0.00-6.20 0.57: SR 160 (River Road) – Isleton, Sacramento, Antioch: San Joaquin SJ 0.00-27.64 10.17
Two of them, however, were acquired and have been restored by the Western Railway Museum in Rio Vista, California. [ 60 ] There are many examples of rolling stock built under contract that are not intended for revenue services, such as the R95 money train , R65 pump train, R127/R134 garbage train, and R156 work locomotive.