print email comment close California State Railroad Museum URL: http://www.csrmf.org/ Description: This museum is the home of twenty-three restored locomotives and cars and this site is an online guidebook to their history. It includes photographs of the exhibits, with detailed information on each one; a brief history of the railroad in America; short biographical information on Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington, and Theodore Judah; and the driving of the gold spike at Promontory Summit in Utah. There are also a calendar of museum events and information on their volunteer program, library, and museum store. Directions, ticket information, and hours of operation are listed. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Museums -- California -- Sacramento Railroad museums LII Database Information: Record 6145 created by Marcia Coudyser on 12/06/1999 Last modification on 08/23/2002 Published: 12/06/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/6145