a look at the grounds and buildings of the Poway train museum (officially the Poway Midland Railroad)

 

great vintage race cars and trains found on Hagop Garagem .com

Above, winner of Pikes Peak. 1922 I think the photo was captioned

Quite a car, I love the anchors on the front bumpers... Anheuser Busch Ginger Ale is on the lifering, which causes me to guess this was during the Prohibition time, and they were using the car to drive up interest and publicity

Above, Coney Island?

I've never seen a nose on a locomotive like the above...

 damn, these are big locomotives!

Above are all images found in http://www.hagopgaragem.com/imagepassado.html

Way back when the US Post Office was profitable, they had mobile post office railcars processing mail while between towns

 as rare that a mail car is, there is another in this same county... in the Escondido Grape Day Park

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/escondidos-santa-fe-train-depot-and.html

Atchison Topeka and the Santa Fe cupola Caboose #1413 built in 1923

Southern Pacific 2353, restored in the 1990's, was running and used in movies from 1996-2000

Pacific Railway Museum in the middle of nowhere

Something about the stark contrast of the above struck me

I pretty much just saved you 15 dollars. Unless you want to visit the middle of nowhere and see these trains in person. They're cool, but... 15 dollars, and gas to find this place 15 miles off the freeway