Lomita Railroad Museum

Lomita Railroad Museum can be found at 250th St 2137. The following is offered: Tourist Attractions. The entry is present with us since Sep 10, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Lomita there are 2 other Tourist Attractions. An overview can be found here.

The Museum was built in 1966. Much research and study was given to depot structures before the final home the Museum was chosen. Mrs. Lewis chose to copy the Boston & Maine's Greenwood Station at Wakefield, Massachusetts, which was built before the turn of the century.

Lomita Railroad Museum is an interesting place where you can learn all about the history of steam-powered locomotives. The museum was built in 1966 and was the first of its kind west of Denver, Colorado. Visitors can see a Southern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive. Also, there is a 1910 Union Pacific caboose and a modern all-steel Santa Fe caboose. Even the building itself is considered a work...

The Lomita Railroad Museum is a museum in Lomita, California devoted to California railroad history during the steam era.It was founded by Irene Lewis in the early 1960s on a single lot in the middle of a residential part of Lomita, and opened in 1966. The museum building is a replica of a 19th-century depot that once stood in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and there is a full size replica of a...