If I ever go missing, it will be because I ran away to live on the grounds of Perris, California's Orange Empire Railway Museum.
The OERM is a magical place with an extraordinary history. I couldn't even begin to describe in detail the impressive work the volunteer-run museum does, so I'll leave my contribution to the photographs (please click on captions, as I've added links where applicable).
If visiting the OERM in person isn't possible, please visit the museum's highly informative, wonderfully detailed website.
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The imagineers at Disney visited Orange Empire when designing Buena Vista Street
and used the red trolley cars (like #665 here) as reference to create their own scale versions,
even using the same trolley numbers as the ones at the museum. |
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The replica red trolley cars on Buena Vista Street at Disney California's Adventure (above)
represent the era during which Walt Disney arrived in California with only "a suitcase and a dream". |
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Riding across the country by train, sorting mail for delivery?
My dream job.... think of all of the postcards I'd have seen! |
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| Rusty gold |
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| Seeing the active cars of the day pulling into their barns at closing time is one of my favorite parts of the visit. |
(all photographs © Monika Seitz Vega, 2013)
6 comments:
It's just a shame I can't take the train to see it!
Now THAT would be cool.
Monika can we put some your photos up on the Orange Empire Railway Museum Facebook page?
Mike, you will be able to take the train to the museum through the Metrolink to Perris and then the Perris Depot to the Museum
Ellen, that'd be great. Please give photo credit to Monika Seitz Vega. We'll be there Saturday for the swap meet!
Did you take any swap meet photos?
Unfortunately we didn't make it. It had been a long, hot week, and the high temperatures of the weekend kept us indoors that day.
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