Claim: Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum which is located at 1460 South Harbor Boulevard Anaheim, CA  was founded in 1900 by people who were concerned with saving the steam locomotive, which is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.
Evidence: The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum was founded as a chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1960 by Paul H. Merriman and Robert M. Soule, Jr., along with a group of local railway preservationists who were concerned with saving steam locomotives and railway equipment for future historical display and use. 
1960 (1960) / 1961 (1961) 
Founded in 1960 and incorporated in 1961, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum originally stored equipment at the Western Union pole yard which was located adjacent to the Southern Railway classification yard on Holtzclaw Avenue in East Chattanooga.