San Diego Railroad Museum

Reference Library

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The Musuem maintains an extensive reference collection located in the historic San Diego Santa Fe Depot Baggage Building. It contains reference information for the San Diego and Arizona Railway as well as other topics of regional and national interest.

FOCUS of COLLECTION

San Diego & Arizona Railway
San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway
San Diego Electric Railway
San Diego & Cuyamaca Railway
San Diego, Cuyamaca & Eastern Railway
San Diego Southern Railway
San Diego & South Eastern Railway
National City & Otay Railway
AT&SF in the San Diego Area

COLLECTION

11,000 Books (Manuals, Cataloges, History, Biographies, Law)
6,000 Maps and drawings (Floor plans, Track Alignments, Property ownership, Equipment drawings, Yard diagrams)
5,000 Magazines (Fan, Model, Industry, Foreign)
15,000 Photographs (Local Railroads, Worldwide, Slides, Videos, Films)
Timetables (Public and Employee timetables from all over the world)
Postcards (Worldwide coverage, mostly U.S.)
Paper files (Includes almost anything published)
Corporate records from most local railroads (Employee files, Invoices, Work o rders)

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This page last updated 3/13/2003