Videos

Train TaleS

Living History Video Interviews with local railroaders recorded for posterity.

All of these videos are available on the museum’s Train Tales YouTube channel.

• – Bob McIntire – 2014
• – Vince Cipolla – 2014
• – Bill Berry and Virlon Smoot – 2015
• – Sid Marques – 2015
• – Ray Craig – 2015
• – Bill Walthers – 2015
• – Ray Craig and Sid Marcus – 2015
• – Rick Bacon & Kirk Miller – 2015
• – Louis Verdugo – 2016
• – Clyde Elliot – 2017
• – Tom Kroon – 2017
• – Bill Walther & Dave Sheridan – 2021
• – Richard Nakano – 2023

If you were or are a railroader or a family member of one in the San Luis Obispo area, please consider recording your stories for future generations to hear. We’ll do all the interviewing and recording — all you need to do is come and tell us your stories. Please contact us via a visit to the museum, a phone call, or an email.

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Parlor Car Chats

This Internet Video program was created to “keep us all going” during the COVID shutdown. It ran from May 16, 2020 to May 8, 2021. Thirty Chats were presented, and all were recorded so you may now watch them at any time. A list of all these Chats is shown below in chronological order along with a link to the YouTube video recording for that Chat along with links to additional information for each Chat. Between the live attendees and later watching the recordings, Parlor Car Chats racked up over ten thousand views.

All of these videos are available on the museum’s Parlor Car Chat YouTube channel.

• – Riding the Rails from San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara
• – 150th Golden Spike Anniversary
• – Rail Route Guide SLO to Paso Robles
• – Railroad Chapel Cars
• – Ten Central Coast Railroad Festivals
• – Pacific Harbor Line and Ports in L.A.
• – Santa Maria Valley Railroad
• – SMV #205
• – Royal Gorge Route Railroad
• – Colorado Fall Colors by Speeder Part 1
• – Colorado Fall Colors by Speeder Part 2 and 150th Golden Spike in Strasburg, CO
• – Garden Railroads
• – Cumbres and Toltec’s Geology Special
• – Amtrak’s Coast Starlight and Great Lodges
• – Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard, the Golden Spike Tower, and Great Acts of Kindness
• – Guided Photoshoot on the SMVRR
• – The Circus Train
• – Davenport 2-6-2
• – Alvin All-Star Railroad
• – Fillmore and Western Railway
• – Skunk Train Railbikes
• – Swanton Pacific Railroad
• – Views from the Observation Car
• – Remnants of Railroads in the Santa Maria Valley
• – Rail Excursion to the Huntington Library
• – Speeders on the SMVRR
• – Lost in the Details: Gauge, Couplers, and Brakes
• – California Short Line Railroad Association
• – Modeling Central Coast Railroads at the Museum
• – Cog Railway at Pikes Peak