RAILROAD MUSEUM - NCHS

NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY


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  • 5 Kidder Court
    Nevada City, Nevada
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  • Phone 1
    Main
    530-470-0902
  • Business Line
    530-470-0902

The Nevada County Historical Society Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum preserves local transportation history and artifacts from the narrow gauge railroad era. Visitors are offered a docent-led historical tour of the museum, railyard, and restoration shop. Provides visitors an exhibition of Engine 5, an 1875 Baldwin that began service hauling lumber, then passengers and freight for the NCNGRR, and finally as a movie engine at Universal Studios in Hollywood, a collection of 90-110 year old wooden rail cars.


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