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Riding the World's Coolest Trains at the Southern California Railway Museum

If you & some you know love riding & learning about trains and visiting Southern California soon? Then you plan to make a stop at the Southern California Railway Museum! Located in Perris, Riverside County, 60 miles from Disneyland & 74 miles from Downtown Los Angeles to have space for historic trains that used to run on the rails of Southern California. Especially the electric interurban passenger trains & street cars that dominated the first half of the 20th century in SoCal. Which cars, buses, and freeways dominated the later half of the century. Come along as we learn about the history of Southern California railroading here on AntSol Travel. We are going to the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris, Riverside County! A volunteer led railway museum since 1956 in Los Angeles as the Orange Empire Railway Museum, then moved to Perris in 1959 at an abandoned train tracks & roundhouse. The volunteers turned it into a place to preserve the dying interurban street cars like the Pacific Electric Railway street cars. Now has a huge collection of trains from steam locomotives to the more recently retired San Diego Trolley U2 cars and LA Metro light rail cars. Wait, can I take Metrolink to get to Perris? Weekdays, yes, as the 91/Perris Metrolink line stops in Perris at the Perris Downtown station, which is 2.5 miles away from the Southern California Railroad Museum. However, the weekend does not have any service to Perris in the morning, so driving is the only option and I can run errands on the way back. Typically, entry fee is free to the museum on weekends with a fee for the weekend train rides, however, with the swap meet, there is an entry fee of $10 per adult and $9 per child between 5 to 11 years, under 5 is free. Adding on the unlimited train rides for the day $5 per person. It was also Railroadiana Swap Meet day too, where people are selling model trains and railroad antiques. Model trains can be really expensive for newer or antique sets. Vendors for the swap meet cost $21.50 or $25 the day of the swap meet. However, there are many cheaper trains that you can buy for a few dollars that I would buy later. Only a fraction of the vendors were selling various railroad antiques and signage. After shopping for cheap model train cars, time to eat! The food & beverage vendor is the Buffet Ranch Non Profit Animal Rescue in Morango Valley. All the proceeds benefit the rescue. They even have cotton candy & kettle corn. I got a chili cheese dog for $7. It was delicious! However, I should have gotten a side dish. The SoCal Railway Museum has a huge collection of trains in their train barns. Ward Kimball, one of Walt Disney’s original animators, donated a huge collection of narrow gauge trains, called the Grizzly Flats including the Chloe locomotives that are currently in the process of restoration. Let’s go on a ride on the Pacific Electric Interurban Railway. One of the trains that you could ride is the Pacific Electric Interurban Railway MU Coaches #418 & #498 cars, these train cars dominated SoCal before the cars took over post World War II. This & another one roll along a mile & half mile main line towards Perris and back. The museum trains stop just south of the Perris Downtown Metrolink station at the junction. The crews have to switch directions of the trolley poles before heading back to the museum. Another train running on the mainline is a Union Pacific diesel EMD locomotive #942 pulling several various passenger cars. Unlike the interurban cars, the train operator just flips the reverser to go back to the museum. One of the artifacts that the SCRM has obtained from San Diego was the original smart fare payment card for NCTD and SDMTS, the Compass Card, used from 2009 to 2021. Now replaced by the Pronto Cards. There were two more Pacific Electric Railway street cars rolling around the museum. This is Pacific Electric 717 that would have rolled along the Pacific Coast Highway from Santa Monica to San Pedro. The last one was a smaller Pacific Electric 332 “Birney” car. Riding the train's street cars was fun. I definitely recommend the Southern California Railway Museum for kids & adults who love trains! Now sit back and enjoy the train rides! Each of the train rides are timed stamped in the description for your convenience. 0:00 Introduction 0:35 My Experience at the Museum 5:30 Pacific Electric Interurban Railway MU Coaches #418 & #4982 12:28 Union Pacific diesel EMD locomotive #942 20:08 Pacific Electric 332 “Birney” Car 24:21 Pacific Electric 717 "Hollywood" Car