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Lomita Railroad Museum

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Type
  
Railroad museum

Established
  
1966

Phone
  
+1 310-326-6255

Lomita Railroad Museum

Location
  
2137 West 250th Street Lomita, California

Address
  
2137 250th St, Lomita, CA 90717, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 10AM–5PMSunday10AM–5PMMondayClosedTuesdayClosedWednesdayClosedThursday10AM–5PMFriday10AM–5PMSaturday10AM–5PM

Similar
  
Drum Barracks, Travel Town Museum, Western Museum of Flight, Los Angeles Maritime, Banning House

Profiles

Lomita railroad museum


The Lomita Railroad Museum is a museum in Lomita, California devoted to California railroad history during the steam era.

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It was founded by Irene Lewis in the early 1960s on a single lot in the middle of a residential part of Lomita, and opened in 1966. The museum building is a replica of a 19th-century depot that once stood in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and there is a full size replica of a water tower. The museum grounds now function as a small public park.

Lomita railroad museum


Rolling Stock

The museum's collection includes:

  • 1902 Baldwin steam locomotive
  • Southern Pacific tender
  • 1910 Union Pacific caboose
  • Santa Fe caboose
  • Union Pacific boxcar
  • Union Oil tank car
  • References

    Lomita Railroad Museum Wikipedia