Lomita Railroad Museum Explained

Lomita Railroad Museum
Established:	1966
Coordinates:	33.7983°N -118.3186°W
Type:	Railroad museum
Website:	http://www.lomita-rr.org

The Lomita Railroad Museum is a museum in Lomita, California devoted to California railroad history. “Exhibits include a full-size steam locomotive with tender and caboose, and a station housing scale models, photographs and paintings of trains.” ^[1]

It was founded by Irene Lewis in the early 1960s on a single lot in the middle of a residential part of Lomita, and had its grand opening on June 23, 1967.^[2] The museum building is a replica of a 19th-century depot, Boston & Maine's Greenwood Station that once stood in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and there is a full size replica of a water tower. The museum grounds now function as a small public park.

Rolling Stock

The museum's collection includes:

• 1902 Baldwin steam locomotive
• Southern Pacific tender
• 1910 Union Pacific caboose
• Santa Fe caboose
• Union Pacific boxcar
• Union Oil tank car

External links

• Official Lomita Railroad Museum website

Notes and References

1. News: Smith . Doug . 1979-06-17 . There's No End of Things to Do Close to Home . CS1 . Los Angeles Times .
2. Web site: Irene Lewis makes her dream of a train museum for Lomita a reality (Part 2: Lomita Railroad Museum) South Bay History. blogs.dailybreeze.com. 2020-01-14.