The Orange Empire Railway Museum: A Tour
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- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2021
- Over Memorial Day weekend we took a long overdue mini vacation to California's Inland Empire and the San Diego area. We visited the Safari Park in San Diego on Friday, attended the opening round of the National Outdoor Motocross series at Pala on Saturday and the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris on Sunday.
I left my phone in the truck Friday and wanted to watch the race Saturday, not shoot it! The trip to the Rail Museum though, that I wanted to shoot and share with you all!
If you've never been, you should go if possible. If you can't get there, I hope this video gives you an idea of what it's like.
Enjoy!
Museum GPS 33deg 45' 38"N 117deg 13' 53"W
glad to hear your voice is back
Thanks for this. I need to go there.
Nice tour Mark.
It was good to see all the kids enjoying themselves.
I'm a local to the museum and used to work at the Air Museum in Riverside. It's been a few years since I visited the OERM and I see there are lots of changes. Thanks for the updaye and time to visit again!
Love the Air Museum! I'm also an aviation freak!
Really enjoyed the SP horns, took me back years ago. Love that horn.
I love the old PCC trolley cars. They still run them in San Fran. Classic 30's and 40's body styles when they actually had body styles! They actually had curves and looked stylish. For you electrical RR nerds out there they also had a pretty sophisticated pre-electronic, pilot motor, traction motor control system that allowed acceleration and braking that matched the gasoline/diesel buses they were competing with. Very cool video Mark. Thanks for helping out us RR fans.
The museum locomotive is a Alco RSD5. The center cab locomotive I think its a 44 ton switcher but not completely sure. Nice tour and that place is so cool to visit. Was a member many years ago. That line went to Elsinore and San Diego but washed out in a flood and was never rebuilt. The grades were terrific and the present route to San Diego is much gentler Part of the current line in service is owned by Metrolink or SCAX.
Ward Kimball was an amazing animator for Walt Disney and an avid railroader.....he also worked with former SP Daylight hogger, Billy Jones, in developing the Disney rolling stock and railroad. Amazing group of "imagineers" coming together. Billy was a member of my Masonic Lodge back in the early '60s.
Working Trolleys are Great. We have a Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, MO. Lots of Trains.
Mark. Glad to see you are doing so much better! Im bummed that I missed the swap meet at the Perris Museum.
What a great place. It would be awesome if Metrolink ran an excursion car every so often so railfans could come out to the museum from Los Angeles.
Wow! Tons of very cool stuff! The streetcars/trolleys remind me of San Fran (years ago). Your grandson looks to have had a great time!
He had a blast!
The track you're riding on was once the original A.T.& S. F. line to San Diego before the Surf line was built. It was washed out many times before it was finally abandoned.
In California they called them streetcars; trolley car is an eastern term. The bigger electric cousins are called Interurbans. Thanks for a great tour!
Wondered where Ward Kimball 's Grizzlies Flats locomotive ended up. Glad to see it's somewhere it can be appreciated.
Ward Kimball was one of the founding members of the Orange Empire Railway Museum and he donated most of the equipment and paid for the car barn before he died. Chole was donated by his wife after Ward's death.
Was kind of cool. Reminds me ALOT of the National Musuim of Transport here in St. Louis, but IT'S ALOT SMALLER!
That was great. Going to put it on my bucket list. Could you do one of the state railroad museam at Scramento.
When I have the chance to get back up there I certainly will. I'll also get the Western Railroad Museum in Rio Vista
Awesome I love that Railway museum also there’s a nearby Metrolink station in that area in downtown Paris 😄👍
@Andrew yup
@Andrew 😎👍
My dad used to take me there as a kid to the swap meets that was our bonding thing, now I work for the BN$f and live the life!
I always heard the orange railroad museum had a collection of old timey electric trains, riding street car looking out the window seeing big SP red nose looking at you,.
The barn that was closed has quite a few.
Is the black engine an ALCO RS-1? Navy boxcars marked USN were captive to the facility. Interchange cars had reporting marks of DODX. (During my tenure)
Looks like a GE 45-ton switcher to me.
The water tower is new under construction at the museum. Everybody we can always use more volunteers at the museum in any capacity. Museum donations are down and now at the museum is open please come out and visit. If one want to do track you can do track if one want to do locomotive repair that’s great. Also if you want Restore traction cars you can do that. If anyone want to do building maintenance, that’s one area. If you want to do landscaping and gardening we could use that help as well, and irrigation. We need electriciansm, Machinest, carpenters, general labor in any of the trades and if you’re any good at signals we could use people to work on the signals. Hint hint!
The Navy box cars most of them came from seal Beach.
Mark the Track is entirety relayed track by museum volunteers.
The Air Force designated yard engine may have come from places such as Alamogordo, White Sands, or Tonopah/Yucca flat. I have seen a RUclips video about Yucca Flats where atomic bomb testing took place, and they have a small engine like that. I do not remember it being painted in air force Livery
The crossing was actually a double slip switch.
i believe that the railroad once the railroad went from oceanside ca through peris and up to Barstow and beyond as the Santa Fe trans continental railroad.
correct me if im wrong i just looked on google earth and did some recerch
No, you are correct. I did some research (in a book I bought at the OERM) and that was the original main line! I had no idea!
Mark !! I'm a member there..
Wish I knew you were coming down and I'd like to meet you ..
One Covid patient to another ..
Take care and enjoy the museum 😊 ..
We didn't even know we were going until that morning! Would love to meet you!
You can buy speeders and ride the rails, as a formal group event
I thought the two rails close together were super Narrow Gauge
Well I guess that horn on that trolley sounds like the horn on a Lionel F unit 1958
You missed the whole point of the grizzly flats railroad. The Chloe you went so fast buy was owned by the none other than Ward Kimball. That is Ward's backyard railroad. Ward was Walt Disney's right hand man. Ward was responsible for getting Walt into trains. including Walt's backyard train The Carlwood Pacific. Ward gave Walt the inspiration to build Disneyland. So next time go back re look at the famous Chloe
Fantastic, Mark! Thank you! What is your email or a link to it? I have an item as an attachment I'd like to send to you. Best always, PK
Motopoet59@gmail.com
Haha
The present name of the Orange Empire Railway is the Southern California Southern Railway Museum. The Pacific Electric 717 was built in 1925 by the J.G. Brill Company. The car is painted in the Valley Livery for cars going to the San Fernando Valley ending in Canoga Park via Hollywood Blvd and over Cahuenga Pass. The Presidents Conference Commission Car 3100 was built during World War II to handle the increased passenger load of the war. The address is of the Southern California Railway Museum is 2201 South A Street Perris California 92570. Their website is www.socalrailway.org. The Museum Mainline started out as the main line for the California Southern Railway a subsidiary of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to San Diego California. The City of Perris was named for the Chief Engineer of the California Southern Fred T. Perris. The Rail Grinder would have to be called out for emergencies incase any track repairs were needed and to smooth out the rough spots at stops.