California State Railroad Museum

The next stop was the California State Railroad museum in Sacramento. Here the thing I came to see was the only remaining cab forward steam engine in America. The museum was all inside unlike Steamtown at Scranton, however the lighting was useless for photography unless you had a SLR camera like mine. It was interesting to hear about how the Railroads got their start over here in America, and particularly the problems they had with snow. In some cases they built massive long snow tunnels to keep the tracks clear. Imagine being a tunnel for a hours and hours with nothing to see out the window. I also had a look in the Dinner car they had on display. Through the 50s and 60s different Railroad companies in America had Dinner cars on their passenger trains.