West Florida Railroad Museum

The museum's home is the Louisville and Nashville Railroad depot at 5003 Henry Street in Milton, built in 1909 on the site of an 1882 Pensacola and Atlantic depot that had burned two years earlier. The station closed in 1973, received a partial restoration through a 1976 Bicentennial grant, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1982; the building today belongs to the Santa Rosa Historical Society. The West Florida Railroad Museum opened in the depot in 1989 and has gathered preserved cars and memorabilia from the L&N, Frisco, and other roads — two dining cars, two former Pullman sleepers that were renovated into L&N baggage-dormitory cars, two cabooses, a boxcar, and a flatcar — along with a bridge tender's house saved from the Escambia Bay trestle and a section shed with motor car. The museum also sponsors two model railroad clubs, the West Florida Model Railroad Club and the Emerald Coast Garden Railway Club.