Auction Ends: May 9, 2016 11:00 PM PDT

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4 Adult One-Day Passes to the San Diego Model Railroad Museum

Item Number: 214

Estimated Value: 40 USD
Opening Bid: 13 USD

Item Description

The winning bidder will receive 4 Adult One-Day Passes to the San Diego Model Railroad Museum.

Museum Hours are Tuesday through Friday from 11:00am-4:00pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 11:00am-5:00pm.

San Diego Model Railroad Museum: North America's Largest Accredited Model Railroad Museum in America's Finest City

The mission of the San Diego Model Railroad Museum is to preserve the heritage of railroading through a series of miniature representations of California railroads, as well as research and preserve the history of model railroading. A main component of our mission is to educate the public on the history and aspects of railroading. It is our goal to actively engage people from every community and demographic, to delight and teach the art of model railroading and the history of railroads.

Model railroading has a rich history in San Diego, particularly in Balboa Park. Its origins in the park can be traced back to the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition when legendary model railroader Minton Cronkite was asked by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company to build a replica of the AT&SF railroad system in the Ford Building, the present day Air and Space museum.

Today, the San Diego Model Railroad Museum is proud to have pieces from that original display in our permanent collection. The city of San Diego offered the clubs a space in the newly rebuilt Electric Building (present day Casa de Balboa) and the San Diego Model Railroad Museum was created. To this day the museum remains the only American Alliance of Museums accredited model railroad museum in North American and at 27,000 sq. ft. we are also one of the largest.