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Texas Transportation Museum – Virtual Tour

Texas Transportation Museum - Virtual Tour

Texas Transportation Museum – Virtual Tour

The Texas Transportation Museum was created in 1964 to preserve artifacts and information about San Antonio’s transportation history.

The museum operates much its collection, including many railroad vehicles on its heritage railroad, the Longhorn, and Western Railroad.

As well as operating heritage stock on its historic railway tracks it exhibits several model train layouts and many antique automobiles. 

The Model railroad displays include HO scale layout, G gauge outdoor layout, and O scale layout.

The Texas Transportation Museum provides a program of experiences that interprets how developments in transportation technology shaped our daily life. 

The museum hosts regular community events in a unique environment of heritage trains and transportation of bygone eras.

Texas Transportation Museum - Virtual Tour

1929 Ford Model AA Truck – Texas Transportation Museum in San Antonio, Texas

Highlights of the Texas Transportation Museum

  • 1911 Balwin 2-8-0 Steam engine
  • 1942 General Electric 45 Ton locomotive
  • 1954 Baldwin 0-4-4-0 Diesel-Electric Switcher
  • HO scale layout Model railroad display
  • 1929 Ford Model AA Truck
  • Longhorn and Western Railroad 
  • 1925 Baldwin 0-4-0 Steam engine

Texas Transportation Museum - Virtual Tour

1911 Balwin 2-8-0 Steam engine – Texas Transportation Museum in San Antonio, Texas

Texas Transportation Museum

  • Museum:           Texas Transportation Museum
  • City:                   San Antonio
  • State:                 Texas
  • Country:            United States
  • Established:      1964
  • Type:                 Railway and Train Museum, Specialist Museum
  • Location:           11731 Wetmore Rd, San Antonio, TX, United States

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Texas Transportation Museum – 360 Virtual Views

Texas Transportation Museum – 360 Virtual Views

Virtual Tour of the Museums in Texas

Texas Transportation Museum

Texas Transportation Museum

Texas Transportation Museum

Texas Transportation Museum

Texas Transportation Museum

Texas Transportation Museum

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“Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but
how well you bounce.”

– Texas Proverbs

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