Area served San Diego County Founded 18 October 1959 | Phone +1 619-478-9937 Founders Eric Sanders, et al | |
Type Public-benefit corporation Tax ID no. 95-2374478 (CA 501(c)(3)) Focus Railroad museum, historic preservation Location 750 Depot Street
Campo, CA (excursion station)
4695 Nebo Drive
La Mesa, CA 91941 (business office) Origins San Diego County Rail Museum Address 750 Depot St, Campo, CA 91906, USA Hours Closed today MondayClosedTuesdayClosedWednesdayClosedThursdayClosedFridayClosedSaturday9AM–5PMSunday9AM–5PM Similar Motor Transport Museum, San Diego Model Railroad, Orange Empire Railway, Goat Canyon Trestle, Lake Morena Drive | ||
Pacific southwest railway museum excursion 4 15 2000
The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum is a railroad museum in California controlled by the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association located in Campo, on the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway line. The museum also owns and manages a railroad depot located in La Mesa.
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Since 1986, the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association operates all-volunteer train excursions from the restored 1916 Depot in Campo, in the Mountain Empire area of southeastern San Diego County, California. These trains are powered by vintage diesel-electric locomotives.
The museum also has approximately 100 historic railroad cars and locomotives on display, including five steam locomotives, seventeen diesel locomotives and many other pieces of rolling stock. A large display building houses part of the railroad equipment collection which allows visitors to view or walk through the equipment. A new donation has been received for an exhibit titled "Signal Science" which uses retired railroad signals to demonstrate how railway signals work. The museum is also home to the Southwest Railway Library, which opened in Campo on July 2014. The library is currently being doubled in size.
The museum manages the original La Mesa depot in downtown La Mesa, next to the La Mesa Boulevard stop on the San Diego Trolley Orange Line. It is the oldest building in town and is the sole surviving San Diego and Cuyamaca Railway station. The museum's renovation of the depot won an award from San Diego's historic preservation society, Save Our Heritage Organisation.
Next to the depot is a display train consisting of saddletank steam locomotive 0-6-0ST Mojave Northern Railroad #3, a Pacific Fruit Express reefer car, and a Southern Pacific Railroad caboose.