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Western Railway Museum

SUISUN CITY, CA

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About Western Railway Museum

Riding a 1.5‑mile streetcar or a 10‑mile interurban through Solano County, the Western Railway Museum sits on Highway 12 between Rio Vista and Suisun on the former Sacramento Northern mainline. Operated year‑round by the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association, the site features the largest collection of Sacramento Northern equipment in existence, offering scheduled heritage excursions, shaded picnic grounds, a visitor center with a cafe, bookstore and research library.

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History

The Bay Area Electric Railroad Association (BAERA) forms in 1946 when a group of San Francisco‑area rail enthusiasts organizes to focus on electric traction. After acquiring Key System streetcar 271 and other equipment, members secure a permanent site at Rio Vista Junction in 1960, a former Sacramento Northern station near Suisun. During the 1960s BAERA incorporates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational corporation and launches the California Railway Museum as its principal project. To avoid confusion with the California State Railroad Museum, the institution is renamed the Western Railway Museum at the beginning of 1985. In 1994 the museum purchases 22 miles of former Sacramento Northern right‑of‑way, and in 2001 a Visitors Center is dedicated. Construction of the Loring Jensen Memorial Car House begins in 2002 and the fire‑suppressed facility officially opens in May 2008.

The Trains

The museum’s collection includes roughly one hundred pieces, among them Sacramento Northern interurban car 62 (a 1920 Birney streetcar), interurban car 1005 (originally Oakland, Antioch and Eastern 1005, restored to its 1934 configuration), and a handful of Western Pacific steam locomotives, while operational rides use former Key System Bridge Units 182 and 187. Visitors can ride a 1.5‑mile (2.4 km) streetcar line and a 10‑mile (16 km) interurban line that runs along the former Sacramento Northern Railway from Rio Vista Junction northward to Dozier, with an additional newer segment extending west from Dozier toward Cannon near Vacaville. The heritage railway is being re‑electrified southward from Rio Vista Junction to Bird’s Landing Road (about six miles) and restored northward toward Molena, preserving the original standard‑gauge track.