Attention museum visitors!

We have updated our business hours and train departure times.  Please visit the Museum Hours and Train Times page for more information.  We look forward to another successful year serving our community.

After a few weekends off after our most successful North Pole Limited season ever, the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum will open Saturdays and Sundays with Golden State excursion trains running at 11AM and 2:30PM starting on January 7, 2017. We look forward to your visit with us in the new year.

Photographs, videos, written accounts, and physical artifacts all help tell the story of the equipment that is preserved under the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association’s careful watch. Every now and then, you stumble upon something truly special. In this case – a color photograph of Coos Bay Lumber Company 2-8-2T #11 which is currently under restoration in Campo. While browsing the well-known railroad discussion forum Trainorders.com, Vice President Martin Caestecker saw this picture posted to the Steam Railroading forum by photographer and steam photograph collector Martin Hansen. Pictured here in the late spring of 1961, #11 takes on water and oil as she is preparing to haul a group of Boy Scouts down the railroad from the Powers, Oregon shops of Georgia Pacific (formerly owned by the Coos Bay Lumber Company).

The Association is always searching for photographs of our equipment in their natural habitats. If you have one, we encourage you to contact us so we can add it to our website or library collections.