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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.
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.
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Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [ 1 ] There are 32 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 1 National Historic Landmark .
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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]
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
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.