Young and old together dream in a small outdoor nook in Balboa Park.
The San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park has erected a cool little exhibit on their outdoor rear patio called the Centennial Railway Garden. To commemorate the hundred year anniversary of Balboa Park, a detailed layout features streetcars traveling among 3D-printed reproductions of several buildings in the park. The scenes date from the 1915 Panama-California Exposition. Visitors young and old can dream they’ve traveled back in time as they take control of the fun model train action with their smart phone! (Technology has changed somewhat in the last hundred years!)
Go check out the Centennial Railway Garden and have a lot of fun!
Volunteer at San Diego Model Railroad Museum walks past 3D-printed model of the historic California Building with its bell tower.Putting a model of a streetcar on the tracks. A hundred years ago, John D. Spreckels’ Class 1 streetcars provided transportation around San Diego.This small replica of the Spreckels Organ Pavilion is part of special exhibit that commemorates Balboa Park’s centennial.The Centennial Railway Garden also includes a model of Balboa Park’s Botanical Building and nearby reflecting pool!Getting the streetcars ready early one weekend morning before many visitors arrive at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum.The very cool Centennial Railway Garden is a place in Balboa Park where dreams from the past come alive.
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7 thoughts on “Young and old dream at Centennial Railway Garden.”
I didn’t know they had an outdoor patio. I’ll have to look for that.
It’s just a small semi-enclosed area by the parking lot in back. To see the exhibit up close, you can head through a door at the back of the museum, near the “Lego” room.
I didn’t know they had an outdoor patio. I’ll have to look for that.
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It’s just a small semi-enclosed area by the parking lot in back. To see the exhibit up close, you can head through a door at the back of the museum, near the “Lego” room.
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So in order to see it close, you have to go into the museum in the first place huh?
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Yeah. But one can peer through a fence in back and see it, too!
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Thanks for sharing…the models are really well done!! Love Balboa Park!!
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Me too!
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