This is a pretty cool museum in Sacramento that exhibits railroad history in California. Virginia & Truckee Railroad Locomotive No. 13 “Empire” served as a freight engine for more than 40 years. Engine crews considered 13 an unlucky number so the company changed to 15.The Forgotten Railroad Workers Memorial Monument. Chinese artist Xuejun Yang created this monument in 2019, honoring the Chinese workers who played a heroic and important role building the Transcontinental Railroad. Between 1865 and 1869 Central Pacific Railroad employed more than 12,000 Chinese workers to build the western portion on the railroad. They cleared land, put down roadbed, shoveled snow, blasted tunnels through granite and laid track.Great Northern Railway Post Office Car No. 42 operated as a complete post office between Chicago IL and Tacoma WA. Inside the moving car, armed postal clerks sorted mail and the train moved along at up to 80 mph.Inside the mail car.My grandfather worked for a time in the 1940s and 1950s on a mail car between Washington DC and Jacksonville FL.Virginia & Truckee No. 18 “Dayton”.Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Dining Car No. 1474 “Cochiti” was built for Santa Fe’s first streamlined stainless steel train, the Los Angeles to Chicago Super Chief.Attentive waiters served meals on distinctive china. Railroad companies each had their own special designs.Fine dining on the rails!AT&SF railroad chins pattern.New York CentralComfortable seatingSleeping berthsProduce car.Baggage car (The people are real, not mannequins!)This scene interprets the building of the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869. A really well done display.Blasting through granite.Surveyor.Surveying and building equipment.A proud achievement.
