Item Description

A Western Railway Museum Pass for up to 8 visitors, The Western Railway Museum welcomes family, adult and senior groups throughout the year. Picnic grounds, a car house tour, and a 10-mile round trip ride on our restored historic electric rail cars are all included with your pass.

Also included is a copy of the Museum's DVD:
A Ride through History at the Western Railway Museum. This is a must for all visitors and persons interested in the Western Railway Museum. You will take a ride over the Museum’s restored and re-electrified Sacramento Northern main line through pastoral Solano County and have tour of the Museum’s facilities, picnic grounds, history, and collection over 100 pieces of preserved electric railroad equipment that includes interurbans, city streetcars, PCCs, parlor cars, electric locomotives, and a Birney Safety Car. Length: 45-minutes DVD

Museum Information

The Western Railway Museum gives visitors the opportunity to ride historic streetcars and interurban electric trains from all over California and other western states. Streetcars loop the shaded picnic grounds. Interurban cars run over the restored main line of the old Sacramento Northern Railway. With over 50 historic cars on display, railway exhibits, the Museum Bookstore and Gift Shop and the large, shaded picnic grounds, the Western Railway Museum is ideal for family and group outings.

Grounds

Visitors enter the museum through the new Visitors and Archives Center. There is plenty of paved parking. Inside is the ticket counter, Museum Book Store, and many interesting historic displays in Cameron Hall.

Volunteers run the streetcars and interurbans each operating day. You board at the platforms near the Visitors Center and can ride the streetcars as often as you wish. The grounds of the Western Railway Museum include two large car houses with street cars you can stroll through. The large, shaded picnic grounds are perfect for family and group outings.

The popular Depot Cafe in the new Visitors Center offers hot dogs, ice cream, hot and cold beverages, and other snack items. Gas, restaurant, and lodging are available in nearby Suisun, Fairfield and Rio Vista.

Electric Operations

Presently the Museum offers visitors a mile long "streetcar loop" ride on the grounds and an interurban ride over the re-electrified portion of the former SN interurban mainline to Gum Grove Station. Electric operations are offered to the public during all museum operating hours.

Excursions

From time to time the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association sponsors field trips to visit area railways, trace the routes of long gone operations, and mainline railroad trips to points such as Reno. Primarily a service for members, these trips are also open to others who may be interested. For more information, see the Calendar of Events.

Item Special Note

Pass good Through December 2008. See website for days/hours of operation and more information. Western Railway Museum

Pick up Pass Certificate and DVD at Solano Community College
4000 Suisun Valley Road
Fairfield, CA 94534
(707) 864-7177