Lomita Railroad Museum

Railroad museum in Lomita, California

33°47′54″N 118°19′7″W / 33.79833°N 118.31861°W / 33.79833; -118.31861TypeRailroad museumWebsitehttp://www.lomita-rr.org

The Lomita Railroad Museum is a museum in Lomita, California devoted to California railroad history. “Exhibits include a full-size steam locomotive with tender and caboose, and a station housing scale models, photographs and paintings of trains.” ^[1]

It was founded by Irene Lewis in the early 1960s on a single lot in the middle of a residential part of Lomita, and had its grand opening on June 23, 1967.^[2] The museum building is a replica of a 19th-century depot, Boston & Maine's Greenwood Station that once stood in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and there is a full size replica of a water tower. The museum grounds now function as a small public park.

Rolling Stock

The museum's collection includes:

1902 Baldwin steam locomotive
Southern Pacific tender
1910 Union Pacific caboose
Santa Fe caboose
Union Pacific boxcar
Union Oil tank car

References

^ Smith, Doug (1979-06-17). "There's No End of Things to Do Close to Home". Los Angeles Times. p. CS1.
^ "Irene Lewis makes her dream of a train museum for Lomita a reality (Part 2: Lomita Railroad Museum) | South Bay History". blogs.dailybreeze.com. Retrieved 2020-01-14.