OUR VISION

It is a bold plan: to house a substantial Southern Pacific archive with public and on-line access; preserve and promote artifacts of Southern Pacific history; promote awareness of the Southern Pacific System’s unique  legacy primarily west of the Mississippi River; and to top it off with a world-class operating scale model of the Southern Pacific, with scenes reaching from Roseville, California to Ogden, Utah and points beyond!  What is more, a large-scale operating model of Southern Pacific’s Sunset Route between El Paso and Houston, Texas will be featured to highlight operations on the Eastern Lines of the Southern Pacific System.

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It is undeniably ambitious.  And necessarily so, we think, because Southern Pacific was a robust, larger-than-life railroad, being part of country’s first Transcontinental Railroad of 1869.  We have the talent, the commitment, and the phenomenal human resources and enthusiasm of former Southern Pacific employees, long-time Southern Pacific historians, and hard-working Southern Pacific restoration specialists.