Nevada State Railroad Museum – Carson City, Nevada

Nevada State Railroad Museum – Carson City, Nevada

Preserving the railroad history in Nevada is the critical job of the museum.  They have bought many from Hollywood studios that were used in movies.  Among 65 locomotives and cars in the collection, 40 were built before 1900, and 31 pieces that operated on the V & T Railroad.

Not only does the museum have these classic railroad cars but they have added a display on the 20^th century railroad.  The display is an HO-scale (1/87th actual size) model railroad.  The exhibit is equipped with locomotive and railroad-car models donated by the family of the late Kel Aiken, a long-time member of the Friends of the Nevada State Railroad Museum. Mr. Aiken’s hundreds of models include passenger and freight cars and steam and diesel-electric locomotives of the Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Western Pacific railroads. Using these models, the museum can demonstrate railroad operations in Nevada as they were during any selected decade throughout the past hundred years.   The latest model joins the over a dozen others that are now on display.

The museum will not only educate you about the railroad development over the years but will bring the child back into your life, after all, who doesn’t like “playing” with trains? 

Location: 2180 S. Carson St, Carson City, Nevada

Phone: 775-687-6953

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