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Exhibits
Amtrak – Interactive Locomotive Cab
In this simulator visitors can share some of the experiences of operating a locomotive along an actual rail line.
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Amtrak – Virtual Coast Route Ride
Sit back, relax, and watch beautiful Coast Coast scenery pass by the train window. Your virtual trip is included in museum admission.
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Santa Maria Valley Railroad
The Santa Maria Valley Railroad is a privately owned shortline that connects with Union Pacific Railroad at Guadalupe. It handles agricultural equipment, supplies, and products, as well as materials for manufacturing and construction.
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Communications and Signals
Safe and efficient train movements depend on communication and signal systems. These systems have changed dramatically over the years. At the museum you can send a telegraph message, listen to dispatcher instructions over radio, and watch trackside and crossing signals come to life.
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Rolling stock
Railroad rolling stock includes locomotives, freight and passenger cars, and non-revenue cars such as cabooses and maintenance-of-way cars. Exhibited outdoors, available for viewing any day and time, are one of the first all-steel tank cars, a gondola enlarged to carry sugar beets, a flat car, a 1920s café-lounge car, a bay-window caboose, and a small diesel switching locomotive used at a local army base during World War II. (The café-lounge and caboose interiors are open only on Saturdays.)
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Track Display
Railroads build and maintain track and signals using a variety of equipment and tools. A sampling of these tools and Maintenance-of-Way vehicles is on display in the museum.
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