Superintendent of Libraries: Roy Pickering
Superintendent of Research: Bruce Semelsberger

Location:   1050 Kettner Blvd. STE 5
            San Diego, Ca.  92101-3339

Hours:      Tuesday evenings,  7:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
            Saturdays,        10:00 A.M. to  4:00 P.M.

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 orders)

BOOKSTORE
Items for sale
Books
Menus
Public Timetables
Travel Brochures

The Library offers selected books and ephemera for sale to the public subject to the following accession policy.

1. Two copies of each book published will be retained.
2. If a book has been published more than once, then one copy of each publication date will be kept.
3. If a book has been published by different publishers then one copy of each publisher will be kept.
4. All donations will be evaluated as to condition (torn, falling apart, mildew, etc.) and then accessed
   or de-accessed depending on their condition and paragraphs A, B, and C above.
   Always the best copy will be retained.
5. All donations are subject to sale, unless the donor specifically requests that they not be disposed of.

ORDERING:

Please email your requests to Roy, including the Number and Title of each request. You will be notified if the titles are still availble.

SHIPPING: Will be figured on US Postal rates. 

E-mail address:   library@sdrm.org

Mailing address:  San Diego Railroad Museum
                  Roy Pickering, Library
                  1050 Kettner Blvd.
                  San Diego, Ca. 92101-3339

SPECIAL REQUESTS

If you have a requirement that is not listed as available for sale, please notify Roy Pickering who will add your request to the data-base. If the book is subsequently located Roy will contact you with the condition and cost of the book.

MAGAZINES

The Library maintains an extensive collection of magazines that are for sale.

Please send an email request to Roy Pickering listing the Title, Month and Date of each desired magazine. We will search the shelves and let you know if your requests are available.