SDMRM hosts 5 different model train exhibits in Balboa Park. OPEN Tuesday-Sunday 11-4!
Operating as usual
Calling all 3-railers! Looking to add to your collection? SDMRM is having a special Friday night sale featuring 3 rail, O-gauge trains. We'll have prewar, postwar, modern, and even track and other parts. Admission is free, so stop by and see what catches your eye!
📅 February 17th, 5:30PM-7:30PM
📍 1649 El Prado, San Diego CA
This year, SDMRM is raising money to update our Exhibit and Way-finding experience. We want to ensure everyone who visits the museum walks away having learned something. With your help, we can update gallery information, way-finding and directional signage, technology and learning interactives. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation today to help us reach our goal of raising $50,000!
https://www.sdmrm.org/donate
The museum will be OPEN on Monday, 1/16, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Take advantage of this long weekend to come check out all the great trains in our 3-Rail Toy Train Gallery! Don't forget, kids 12 and under are always free with a paid adult.
️🎟️ Museum admission at the link in bio
SDMRM is excited to announce we are once again hosting birthday parties at the museum! Host up to 36 people in our Pacific Beach room and have access to all the exhibits in the museum.
Head over to our website and click on the "events" page to learn more and start planning a birthday party for your favorite train lover!
Anyone recognize this place?
This is our n-scale model of the Carlsbad flower fields! If you're looking for something to do this week, visit the San Diego Model Railroad Museum and find this hidden gem of San Diego on the Pacific Desert Lines layout!
The first swap meet of the year is this Saturday, 1/7/20223! Here's some clips from our special sale back in November, and we'll have even more this weekend. The sale goes from 7:00am-10:30am and is at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum. For more information, head to www.sdmrm.org/swap-meet
Our spring exhibit, Transcontinental Railroads, is now being displayed in the Pacific Beach room at the museum! Come learn about this history of this monumental railroad and see interesting images from the past.
📅 January – June, 2023
🕚 Tuesdays – Sundays, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
📍 1649 El Prado, San Diego CA
🎟️ Museum admission at the link in bio
SDMRM is excited to announce the Centennial Railway Garden is getting a makeover! This exhibit will be closed from now until approximately April. We apologize for any inconvenience and can't wait to unveil the new outdoor railroad exhibit soon!
The San Diego Model Railroad Museum wishes you a happy New Year!
There's still time to make your year-end gift to support SDMRM's gallery experience projects! All donations are tax deductible and gifts of any size make an impact.
Head over to our website https://www.sdmrm.org/donate or click the link in our bio to learn more on the "donate" page.
SDMRM is holding our first swap meet of the new year on Saturday, January 7th! Stop by to see the wide variety of trains all our sellers have to offer. Or attend as a seller and help someone expand their collection. See you there!
Merry Christmas from all of us at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum! We are closed today for the holiday but will be open tomorrow for you to see our Winter Exhibits🎄
The San Diego Railroad Museum would love to have you visit over the holiday season! Here are our operating hours from 12/24-1/1:
▪️ 12/24: Open 11am-3pm
▪️ 12/25: Closed for Christmas Day
▪️ 12/26-12/30: Open 11am-4pm
▪️ 12/31: Open 11am-3pm
▪️ 1/1: Open 11am-4pm
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Buy a Lifetime Membership to the San Diego Model Railroad Museum and get your name on our track of railroad ties forever! Now is the perfect time to buy a membership before prices increase starting January 1, 2023. For more information and to purchase your membership, go to www.SDMRM.org/membership or click the link in our bio!
All levels of membership enjoy free admission to the museum, member discounts, special member events, and more!
Now introducing our spring exhibit: Transcontinental Railroads, opening January 4th, 2023!
The First Transcontinental Railroad opened the western part of America, allowing people to cross the nation in less than a week. This exhibit covers the legislation that was needed to approve the construction, as well as the two companies responsible for building the 1,776-mile railroad. Finally, it discusses the impact of the railroad, both positive and negative.
📅 January – June, 2023
🕚 Tuesdays – Sundays, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
📍 1649 El Prado, San Diego CA
🎟️ Museum admission at the link in bio
SDMRM needs your help raising $50,000 to update its galleries. This project will work to improve your experience so that we can enhance every visit to our museum. Give a tax-deductible gift today; any amount makes an impact on the work we do! https://www.sdmrm.org/donate
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Ales N' Rails is Tonight! If you can't make it this year, but would still like to contribute, you can make a tax-deductible donation on the Ales N' Rails page and to help us reach our goal of raising $15,000. Every dollar raised supports SDMRM’s operations, programs, and Model Railroad Clubs. So far we’ve raised over $6,400.
We are so excited to see everyone and their ugly sweaters tonight at 6pm!
https://www.sdmrm.org/alesnrails?utm_content=sked_639a55579280b1246c8c53b3&utm_medium=social&utm_name=sked&utm_source=facebook
'Tis the Season! The SDMRM gift shop is having a sale on all things Polar Express. Get 20% off Polar Express puzzles, train sets, games and more! These will make a great gift for anyone who can still hear the magic bell of Christmas.
Still haven't watched the classic Polar Express movie this year? The Fleet Science Center has showings in their giant dome this weekend. Head over to their website to get your ticket! https://www.fleetscience.org/shows/polar-express
Looking for a unique gift this holiday season? Everyone will enjoy an annual membership to the San Diego Model Railroad Museum! Swipe to see all the benefits that come with being a member ➡️
And a reminder that membership prices will increase effective January 1st, so get those memberships before the end of the year!
Head to SDMRM.org and click on "Join and Give" to purchase a membership and get more information.
Ales N Rails is sold out for 2022!
Can't make it this year? You can still support Ales N' Rails by helping us reach our $15,000 fundraising goal.
Every dollar raised supports SDMRM’s operations, programs, and Model Railroad Clubs. So far we’ve raised over $6,400. Make a tax-deductible donation today!
https://www.sdmrm.org/alesnrails?utm_content=sked_639a535115d78d6042ee676a&utm_medium=social&utm_name=sked&utm_source=facebook
With your help, the San Diego Model Railroad Museum will improve our signage, technology, and more to ensure you have the best experience here every time you visit. Head over to https://www.sdmrm.org/donate to learn more and donate.
We appreciate any donations made this holiday season!
Have you stopped by to see our winter themed layouts this Holiday season? Kids 12 and under get in free and are sure to love finding all the Santas in our 3-rail room!
Picture credit to Nat Biendara
Beginning January 1, 2023, the San Diego Model Railroad Museum will be increasing membership prices for the first time in 5 years. This change will directly impact the museum as its programming continues to expand and embrace the future of serving our community. To learn more about this increase, visit our website at www.sdmrm.org/membership
We encourage you to take advantage of the current membership prices now before they go up next month. Memberships can be purchased onsite or on our website under "Join and Give"
SDMRM thanks you for your continued support and hopes that you consider becoming part of our community!
The countdown begins for Ales N' Rails! The most fun fundraiser of the year is only 10 days away 🍻 Enjoy this throwback from last year's event and get your tickets at the link in our bio!
Not sure what to get your favorite train lover for Christmas? Look no further than the San Diego Model Railroad Museum Gift Shop! Our curated collection of train-themed gifts are sure to put a smile on anyone's face Christmas morning🎄🎁
SDMRM is hiring in our Gift Shop! We are looking for friendly, cooperative, motivated and outgoing employees to assist in our guests' experience. The hours are 10:30-4:30, Tuesday-Sunday.
If you like the Model Railroad Museum, and feel you would be a good fit, go to our website and click on the "Opportunities" page under "Get involved" to learn more!
From today forward, kids under 12 get into the San Diego Model Railroad Museum FREE! We look forward to introducing the next generation to model railroading.
🕚 Tuesdays – Sundays, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
📍 1649 El Prado, San Diego CA
🎟️ Adult admission at the link in bio
Children 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult with paid admission.
Today is Giving Tuesday!
The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is asking for donations to update its Exhibit and Way-finding experience.
If 500 people were to give $100, we would reach our goal of raising $50,000 to enhance your gallery experience. However, any size contribution will make a positive impact.
The museum’s success is entirely because of your generosity.
Click the link in our bio and head over to the donate page to make your contribution.
Cyber Monday is here! You can support SDMRM by shopping our online gift shop! Here are some of our favorite items – sure to be a great gift for your favorite train lover (or yourself!)
Happy Museum Store Sunday! Be a Patron today and come see all the wonderful offerings we have at our giftshop. As a small, community business, we value your support. All proceeds go to funding the San Diego Model Railroad Museum and our mission.
We still have tickets available for Ales N Rails!
Show your support this Small Business Saturday by buying your ticket today.
If you can't make it this year, you can still donate on the Ales N' Rails web page to help further support our mission and programing here at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum.
🎟️Link to tickets and donation page is in our bio!
Happy Thanksgiving from the San Diego Model Railroad Musuem! We are closed today for the holiday, but we're OPEN tomorrow, 11/25 from 11am-4pm.
To all our valued visitors, SDMRM wants to inform you the museum will be closed Thursday 11/24 for the Thanksgiving holiday. The museum will be OPEN Friday 11/25, Saturday 11/26 and Sunday 11/27! We thank you for understanding and wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving!
Museum Store Sunday is one week away! The SDMRM giftshop is excited to join over 1,800 other stores in this day of supporting non-profits and museums.
We encourage you to visit us next Sunday, 11/27, to see our curated collection of train themed items. From Polar Express puzzles to our clever "one track mind" t-shirts, and much more, you're sure to find the perfect gift for the train lover in your life.
From G-Z, we love all the scales here at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum📏
What scale do you model in?
Hey you O and HO scalers! Don't forget the End of the Year Sale Swap Meet is this Friday from 6pm-8pm. We would love to clear out our inventory for the holidays, so stop by and see what you like!
This year, SDMRM has a goal of raising $50,000 to update its Exhibit and Way-finding experience. With lingering impacts of the global pandemic, your invaluable contributions help drive operations forward so that SDMRM may continue serving the community. Help the museum update and improve your gallery experience by making a year-end tax deductible gift TODAY!
Click the link in our bio and head to the donate page to read more about this project and make your contribution.
Got your golden ticket to the Winter Express yet?
Don't miss out on this morning of Holiday fun
📅 December 10th & 11th
📍 1649 El Prado, San Diego CA
🎟️ Tickets at the link in bio
Ales N Rails is arriving at the station soon! We are looking forward to a fun night of music, beer, games, and, of course, trains!
Get your tickets today 😊
📅 December 17th 6pm-9:30pm
📍 1649 El Prado, San Diego CA
🎟️ Tickets at the link in bio
SDMRM would like to present our new winter exhibit – Toy Trains Through the Decades.
This exhibit, displayed in the Pacific Beach room, follows the evolution of toy trains dating back to the 1800's. Come check it out over the holiday season!
📅 November 21st – January, 2023
🕚 Tuesdays – Sundays, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
📍 1649 El Prado, San Diego CA
🎟️ Museum admission at the link in bio
1649 El Prado
San Diego, CA
92101
| Tuesday | 11am - 4pm |
| Wednesday | 11am - 4pm |
| Thursday | 11am - 4pm |
| Friday | 11am - 4pm |
| Saturday | 11am - 4pm |
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Ales N Rails is arriving at the station soon! We are looking forward to a fun night of music, beer, games, and, of course, trains! Get your tickets today 😊 📅 December 17th 6pm-9:30pm 📍 1649 El Prado, San Diego CA 🎟️ Tickets at the link in bio
It’s a freight day to go for a train ride on the Pacific Desert Lines! Enjoy clips of our N-scale layout, filmed from inside the display. #modelrailroad #modeltrain #NScaleLayout #SDMRM
We're sliding into the holiday spirit! 🛷 Have you purchased your Winter Express tickets yet? With Storytime by Santa, decorating activities and goodie bags, it’s sure to a winter wonderland for the kids❄️⛄ 🎟Tickets at the link in bio! #polarexpress #storytime #sandiego
All Gauge Toy Train Association is leaving the station soon! This temporary exhibit is only here until the end of the month🚂 Enjoy this video from their visit in 2021, then come experience the interactive 2022 set up this week.🚃 #sandiegokids
Be a patron this holiday season and join us on Museum Store Sunday! On Sunday, November 27, more than 1,800 shops will join forces to celebrate museum stores and their missions. Items in the SDMRM gift shop are quality gifts curated for our guests, and every purchase directly supports the museum. Many are even designed by our Guest Relations & Gift Shop Manager, and the postcards you see were created by local artist @adamhansenart. If you have a train lover in your life, we hope you join us on Museum Store Sunday to kick off the holiday season.
We'd like to thank @PBOadvisorygroup & Rich Embrace Media, sponsors of this year's Ales N' Rails celebration, and @pizzaportbrewingco, @mikehessbrewing, @cervezacolibre & @societebrewing, featured beer vendors, for their support! 🍺 Ales N' Rails is an important fundraiser for the museum and its resident model railroad associations, and this year, we seek to raise $15,000. You can help us reach this goal through a donation or even an Event Sponsorship. Everything you need to know is at https://www.sdmrm.org/alesnrails?utm_content=sked_63449ed731ce2b15e19bdbdf&utm_medium=social&utm_name=sked&utm_source=facebook
Our Toy Train Gallery is haunted, spookified, and skeleton-filled all season long! 💀 🧛 👻 Have you come by to see our wonderland turned weird and wacky?
Starting October 18, the All-Gauge Toy Train Association brings their modular layout, full of fun interactive elements for kids, to SDMRM! They're only here for two weeks, so be sure to stop by! This exhibit is free with museum admission, which you can get at https://tickets.sdmrm.org/e/san-diego-model-railroad-museum-2022?utm_content=sked_63449de890dd0915d7dcfcee&utm_medium=social&utm_name=sked&utm_source=facebook
Do you have your Ales N' Rails ticket yet? 🍻 Tickets are selling fast, and we don't want you to miss the fun! Here's all the details: 🗓️ Saturday, December 17 🕕 6-9:30 p.m. 🎟️ $35 for nonmembers, $25 for museum members (discount code is in your email!) ➡️ Tickets at https://tickets.sdmrm.org/e/alesnrails22/tickets?utm_content=sked_63449db190dd0915d7dcfc50&utm_medium=social&utm_name=sked&utm_source=facebook
All aboard! 🎟️ 🚂 Tickets for our Winter Express Experience are now available at the link below. ❄️ Saturday, 12/10 and Sunday 12/11 ❄️ 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. This event is designed for little ones, who will enjoy... 🎅 Storytime with St. Nick under the tree - he will read classic holiday books including the Polar Express! 🎄 Decorating craft ornaments to take home AND put on our wreath 🚂 Being a special helper to our engineers to help to customize the museum’s Christmas Train And more! Well, ya comin? https://www.sdmrm.org/winterexpress?utm_content=sked_634446b80ca4807f07750a89&utm_medium=social&utm_name=sked&utm_source=facebook
Layout vs. Life: On the way home from vacation in Yosemite National Park, our Marketing Coordinator stopped at the Tehachapi Loop to see the full-size version of our famous exhibit! Have you ever visited this renowned landmark?
Kids Free October at SDMRM will be even more special thanks to the All-Gauge Toy Train Association 🚞 🚆 🚂 Visit their layout in the Pacific Beach Exhibition Room from October 18-30 during museum hours! More details about Kids Free October at SDMRM: https://sandiegomuseumcouncil.org/san-diego-model-railroad-museum-kids-free-coupon/?utm_content=sked_6335ec31b751923e43893c61&utm_medium=social&utm_name=sked&utm_source=facebook
It's officially Spooky Season! 🎃🦇 🧟 Happy haunts and friendly phantoms (including some banjo-playing buddies!) have taken over the museum. They LIVE – er, maybe die? - to make your museum experience as spine-chilling as possible!
We've launched our online collection! As part of our collections digitization project, made possible by the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS), we've created an online archive of our extensive collection of trains and artifacts. 👉 https://sdmrm.catalogaccess.com/
🎶 Hold me, love me Ain't got nothin' but love, babe FREIGHT days a week 🎶 📸 Richard Carreon, YouTube 📍 Toy Train Gallery
Exciting news! The San Diego All-Gauge Toy Train Association will return to SDMRM with a fun & interactive temporary display in our Pacific Beach Room, May 19-30. Don't miss it! 🎟️ https://tickets.sdmrm.org/e/san-diego-model-railroad-museum-2022
The track near Ilmon is partially hidden from view, but La Mesa Model Railroad Club - LMMRRC, Inc. members worked very hard to make it picturesque! There is a hallway viewing window on one side of the exhibit, so next time you're there, peek through and admire their handiwork. 📸 Vic Yoder, YouTube 📍 Tehachapi Pass #HOScale Exhibit
Bunny hop 🐰 on over today! We are open from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. on this beautiful Easter Sunday. 📍 #OScale Toy Train Gallery #thingstodoinsandiego
Wake up and greet the daylight...the SP Daylight, that is! 📍 #Oscale Toy Train Gallery 📸 Richard Carreon on YouTube
This #TrainFactTuesday, we're across the Atlantic! Europe is well-known for its metropolitan train systems 🚄 and Germany has the largest rail network on the continent at over 25,000 miles. Second is France 🇫🇷 at 18,000 miles. Third? The beautiful and resilient country of Ukraine 🇺🇦 at 12,000 miles. 📍 Miniatur Wunderland, Germany. Taken by our Marketing Coordinator while on vacation in Hamburg!
What do you call a train lover at the casino? 🎲 🎰 A high RAILer! 🤣 📍 Pacific Desert Lines #NScale Exhibit
Hippity-hoppity, Easter's on its way! The Easter Eggspress & Storytime is this Sunday (April 10), so if you'd like to join us for a fun morning complete with an egg quest, arts & crafts, stories, a special photo spot, and (of course!) running trains, get your tickets at https://www.sdmrm.org/easter. We HOP 🐰 to see you there! #sandiegokids
Hipass is a small mountain stop on the San Diego & Arizona Eastern #HOScale exhibit. This section is rarely seen by the public, but is an important landmark on the journey to El Centro. It is (literally!) almost all downhill from there.
We're not fooling – Our first ever Easter Eggspress & Storytime is in two days! 🐰🐣 Your ticket includes a fun egg quest around the museum, special trains running in our Toy Train Gallery, arts & crafts, and storytime. Can't make it this Sunday? We have a second date on April 10 😊 Tickets www.sdmrm.org/easter
SP through Tehachapi 🌅 Did you know parts of the Tehachapi Pass #HOScale exhibit are lit with warm red light to mimic sunset? 📸 Spencer Dutton
All aboard the Easter Eggspress 🐣🐰 don't miss our next special before-hours event, the Easter Eggspress & Storytime THIS Sunday, April 3 from 9-11 a.m.! There will be arts & crafts, along with a brand new photo opportunity - so come in your Easter best, if you'd like! Tickets are at https://www.sdmrm.org/easter. See you there! #eastereggs
What would you do 🤔 if you robbed a train of millions? After the Great Train Robbery of Britain in August 1963, the robbers reconvened at a farmhouse...and played Monopoly! 🤣 The police found the board, and other evidence, when they searched the farm a few days later and caught the culprits. #TrainFactTuesday 📍 Toy Train Gallery 📸 Richard Carreon, YouTube
¡Vamos! Let's go! 🎶 Music & Movement Day is this coming Sunday, March 20. We're happily hosting Diana of Songbirds Music for music & movement classes, along with arts and crafts around the museum. Music & Movement Family Day is included as part of museum admission.🎟️ Tickets at https://www.sdmrm.org/music-movement-family-day
One of the most popular elements in the museum is the O Scale trolley that travels across the Cabrillo Southwestern exhibit, from the San Francisco-esque city 🌉 to the county fair 🎠 Like a real trolley, this one gets its power from the electrical wires above it! 📸 Instagrammer, sandiegoadventurekids
What's the hardest part about doing a project on trains? 🤔 You have to keep TRACK of everything! 🚞 #punintended 📍 San Diego & Arizona Eastern #HOScale exhibit
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