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About Texas Transportation Museum
The Longhorn and Western Railroad carries passengers along the Texas Transportation Museum’s 5⁄8‑mile (1 km) standard‑gauge loop in San Antonio, winding through restored cabooses, a picnic pavilion and a children’s play area that features a wooden steam engine. The museum, founded in 1964, also displays a Baldwin 0‑4‑0T locomotive, a 1942 GE switcher, historic fire apparatus, tractors and multiple model‑train layouts, offering an educational glimpse of regional transportation heritage.
At a Glance
Verified daily- Type
- Railroad museum
- Location
- TX
- Rating
- 4.6 ★ 534 Google reviews
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Plan Your Visit
- Parking
- Free lot
- Accessibility
- Wheelchair-accessible entrance · accessible restroom · accessible parking
- Hours
- Monday: ClosedTuesday: ClosedWednesday: ClosedThursday: ClosedFriday: ClosedSaturday: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PMSunday: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Find the Depot
The Trains
The Longhorn and Western Railroad is a standard‑gauge heritage line that runs about five‑eighths of a mile (approximately 1.0 km) of track, with its mainline covering one‑third of a mile (0.54 km) between the east and west ends of the Texas Transportation Museum property. Its operating fleet includes the US Army 1954 Baldwin RS‑4‑TC 1A switcher numbered 4035, the US Air Force 1942 GE 45‑ton switcher numbered 7071, the Comal Power Plant 1925 Baldwin 0‑4‑0T locomotive numbered 1, Missouri Pacific Railroad flat car #50043, Missouri Pacific Railroad caboose #13083, and a US Marine Corps Fairmont motor car numbered 256260. Static displays add a 1911 Baldwin 2‑8‑0 steam locomotive (#6) from the Moscow, Camden and San Augustine Railroad, an AT&SF Pullman business car #404, a 1924 Pullman McKeever sleeper, Union Pacific caboose #25275 and several Missouri Pacific cabooses, among other speeders and antique vehicles.
History
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The Texas Transportation Museum is founded in 1964 after a group of rail‑enthusiasts attempts to restore a steam locomotive that had been displayed at the Comal Power Plant. Initially the museum occupies the Pearl Brewing Company in downtown San Antonio and uses the tracks of the Texas Transportation Company. In 1967 the museum receives permission to use roughly forty acres of the then‑named Northeast Preserve—now McAllister Park—located just north of San Antonio International Airport on Wetmore Road. The institution functions as a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Around the Depot
The Texas Transportation Museum sits at the edge of McAllister Park on San Antonio's north side, just above San Antonio International Airport on Wetmore Road. Downtown, the Alamo — Texas's top tourist attraction — joins four other eighteenth-century Spanish missions in an ensemble named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2015, and the River Walk, the city's second-most-visited draw, meanders through the center. The San Antonio Zoo in Brackenridge Park, SeaWorld San Antonio, and Six Flags Fiesta Texas fill out a family itinerary.
Getting There & Staying Nearby
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