Pacific Southwest Railway Museum

The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum is a railroad museum located in Campo, California, on the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway line. The museum also owns and manages a railroad depot located in La Mesa, California.
==History==
Since 1986, the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum operates all-volunteer train excursions from the restored 1916 Depot in Campo, in the Mountain Empire area of southeastern San Diego County, California. These trains are powered by vintage diesel-electric locomotives. The facility sits on a 140 acres (0.57 km2) property.
The museum also has approximately 90 historic railroad cars and locomotives on display, including five steam locomotives, eighteen diesel locomotives and many other pieces of rolling stock. A large display building houses part of the railroad equipment collection which allows visitors to view or walk through the equipment. This includes an exhibit titled "Signal Science" which uses retired railroad signals to demonstrate how railway signals work. 
The museum is also home to the Southwest Railway Library, which opened in Campo in July 2014. The library contains the second largest collection of railroad history in California.
The museum manages the original La Mesa depot in downtown La Mesa, next to the La Mesa Boulevard stop on the Orange Line of the San Diego Trolley. It is the oldest building in town and is the sole surviving San Diego and Cuyamaca Railway station.
The museum's renovation of the depot won an award from San Diego's historic preservation society, Save Our Heritage Organization.
==Roster==
===Steam Locomotives===
Number	Images	Heritage 	Type 	Builder 	Built	Status 	Notes
46 	 	Weyerhaeuser Lumber 	2-6-6-2	Baldwin Locomotive Works 	1937 	Display	There are plans to restore it to operation.
2353 	 	Southern Pacific Railroad	4-6-0 	Baldwin Locomotive Works 	1912 	Display	
3 	 	Mojave Northern Railroad 	0-6-0T 	Davenport Locomotive Works 	1923 	Display	
104 	 	San Diego & Arizona 	2-8-0 	Baldwin Locomotive Works 	1904 	Display	
10 	 	EJ Lavino Co. 	0-6-0T 	American Locomotive Company	1923 	Display	
===Diesel Locomotives===
Number	Images 	Heritage 	Type 	Builder 	Built	Status 	Notes
2098 	 	ATSF 	ALCO RS2 	American Locomotive Company	1949 	Display 	It was originally built for the Kennecott Copper Corp as No. 103.
5119 	 	Southern Pacific Railroad	GE 70 Ton Switcher	General Electric 	 	 	
2104 	 	U.S. Air Force 	ALCO MRS-1 	American Locomotive Company	1953 	Display 	
1809 	 	San Diego & Arizona 	ALCO MRS-1 	American Locomotive Company	1952 	 	
2381 	frameless	Santa Fe 	ALCO S-2 	American Locomotive Company	1949 	Display 	
7304 	 	Southern Pacific Railroad	ALCO RS-32 	American Locomotive Company	1962 	Display 	
3873 	 	Southern Pacific Railroad	EMD GP9 	Electro-Motive Division 	 	Operational	
=== Former Locomotives ===
Number	Images	Heritage 	Type 	Builder 	Notes
3 	 	Hutchinson Lumber Company	Steam	Lima Locomotive Works	Now working in West Virginia for the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park as Cass Scenic Railroad #11.
==Trivia==
* Part of the There Goes a... episode "There Goes a Train" features the railroad museum in Campo. The video was made in 1994 and the museum was closed for the week of shooting. In the video, the museum's ALCO MRS-1 United States Air Force 2104 locomotive was pulling a 3-car Golden State excursion train heading east. The museum was also a filming site for the Real Rockin' Wheels video, "Train Songs", featuring a San Diego and Arizona EMD MRS-1 1809 pulling a 4-car train.
*Irish girl group B*Witched filmed the music video of their hit single "Jesse Hold On" in the station in 1999, featuring one of the museum’s locomotives, Southern Pacific 2353, pulling a westbound passenger train.
*A Levi's Jeans commercial was filmed in Campo near the railroad museum, featuring Southern Pacific 2353.
*Next to the depot is a display train consisting of saddletank steam locomotive 0-6-0ST Mojave Northern Railroad #3, a Pacific Fruit Express reefer car, and a Southern Pacific Railroad caboose.
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