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The Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum (AGSEM) is a living history museum founded in 1969. It is located on 55 acres (220,000 m 2) of county-owned land at 2040 N Santa Fe Ave. on the outskirts of Vista, California. The museum is a non-profit 501c(3) organization, run by several paid employees along with volunteer help.
Stored, Southern California Railway Museum, Perris, California 2379: FM H-12-44 Operational, Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas: 2873: EMD GP9/GP9R: Operational, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola, California 2954: ALCO RSD-12: Stored, Southern California Railway Museum, Perris, California 2958: ALCO RSD-12
Pages in category "Preserved steam locomotives of California" ... Southern Pacific 9; Southern Pacific 18; Southern Pacific 1215; Southern Pacific 1237;
A large 3-rail O scale model train layout is also located in the museum. Virginia & Truckee RR 13, "Empire," (before restoration). Its last owner was the Pacific Portland Cement Company in Gerlach, NV, in the 20th century. Virginia & Truckee 13, "Empire," (after restoration), at the California State Railroad Museum.
The locomotive, along with sisters #8 and #18, were nicknamed "The Desert Princess" for riding along the western and eastern deserts of Nevada and California. In 1954, there was a plan to purchase a new narrow gauge diesel from GE as SP #1, to replace numbers #9, #8 and #18. Whilst #8 and #18 were sold off, #9 was kept on as a standby ...
Southern Pacific 4294 is a class "AC-12" 4-8-8-2 cab-forward–type steam locomotive that was owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1944 and was used hauling SP's trains over the Sierra Nevada, often working on Donner Pass in California.
Makers of miniature working steam engines (i.e. "live steam") to be used as educational toys. Note that some of these companies no longer produce toy steam engines today. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Model steam engine manufacturers .
The California Western discontinued steam service in 1981. In 1984, No. 46 was donated to the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum, as a result of high maintenance costs, and the opinion that the locomotive was too light on its feet. (No. 46 was a saddle-tank locomotive, before California Western added a tender and removed the aforementioned tank.)