I could happily spend many hours at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum. Not only is it the largest such museum in North America, but it features some of the coolest, most realistic model train layouts you’ll ever see!
Located in Balboa Park, the model train museum contains five huge sections. The Cabrillo Southwestern exhibit is in O Scale, the same size as Lionel toy trains. The San Diego and Arizona Eastern, and the Southwestern Pacific-Santa Fe Tehachapi Pass exhibits are both in the popular HO Scale. The Pacific Desert Lines exhibit is in tiny N Scale. Finally, there’s a toy train gallery crammed with Lionel-type trains and many amazing moving accessories, including cars and people. One train is mounted with a Choo-Choo Cam which provides an engineer’s moving view of the dazzling layout.
I took lots of pics yesterday afternoon. Many of the shots taken through glass or in darkness didn’t come out so great. But I did get some fairly good ones. Enjoy!
UPDATE!
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I decided to visit the museum again in May 2017 to get more photos!
The layouts are so huge and detailed it would take some time to describe exactly what the photos depict and from what position they were taken. So I’m just going to insert a bunch of random photos for you all to enjoy.
Feel free to share any of these photos if you’d like. It’s all for fun! And if you ever have a chance, make sure to visit the San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park. The place is truly incredible!
Are you a railroad or streetcar enthusiast? Do you love railway history?
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I also loved model trains.
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When I was a kid I had a large HO Scale layout on a sheet of plywood in my bedroom with several loops, mountains, buildings, trestles, etc. It was lots of fun!
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cool! funny i have never been there. i’ll have to go check it out. thanks for visiting and following my blog, touch of home.
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I was just there! A fantastic display of model trains.
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I agree with the fact that model trains are super fun to watch and assemble, but to be completely honest, I have a passion for flying devices such as drones, RC airplanes and RC helicopters. I also like these because of all the physics and everything involved in the process of actually making them fly (gears, motors, and all that), and I think this is the #1 reason why I really love these gadgets.
Thank you for sharing these amazing pictures. I actually enjoyed watching them.
Too bad not all of them came sharp.
Blessings 😀
Jose
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My husband’s into model railways, but n-gauge. I told him about this exhibition and he was very interested. Thanks for the post.
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Or I should say “museum” to be correct, as I’m not exactly a model railway fan myself!
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Sure thing!
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Nice pictures
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