| Santa Maria Valley Railway Historical Museum |
| Santa Maria Valley Railway Historical Museum |
Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum
SMVRHM Museum member Ken Kelley and fellow railroaders in the Santa Ynez Valley put together this display now showing at the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum through April 1, 2007. |
  See if you can spot on the layout some of the items in this old photograph: enginehouse on the left, the building and tree on the right, and the water tower and windmill behind the locomotive. They're all modeled in this display!  The Daylight train goes underneath Los Olivos on this layout, and the lit interiors of the cars are nicely highlighted when viewed through the portals.  Station at Surf.   Approaching the Surf station.  An old movie camera in the same room of the museum.  A view of the entire display.  Pictured on the wall...  A mural in the museum courtyard just outside the train room.  Jamie (left) and Bill beneath the bell of Pacific Coast Railway No. 106. Related lecture series, Sundays at 2:00pm at the Santa Ynez Valley Museum: July 23rd, "The Story of the Pacific Coast Railway", Curtiss Johnson (co-author of the "Pacific Coast Railway" book). August 13th, "Filming on the PCRy", Ken Kelley, and "The Last ride out of Los Olivos", Tom Petersen (PCRy Historian). September 10th, "Los Olivos, Where the Stagecoach meets the Iron Horse", Bruce Morden (Railroad Historian). September 24th, "Surf and the Southern Pacific", John Roskoski (Southern Pacific contributor to several books about the SURF station area). October 1st, "Discovery of Oil on the PCRy Route", Ross Brunetti, (Energy and Mineral Resources Engineer, Department of Conservation, Santa Maria, California). February 25th (2007), "The Most Beautiful Train in the World". Ken Kelley. This will take visitors from the building of Southern Pacific’s Coast Line through the depression years, war years, until the end of Steam Engines on the Coast Line (1955). It will then cover the re-building on the "Loan Survivor" (Engine 4449, see pics below) through all of its events to the present. A few words about this train's impact on the Pacific Coast Railway will be covered. Time permitting, a video of the 1981 trip from Portland to Sacramento will be shown. March 25th (2007), "The Story and History of Mattei's Tavern". Curt Cragg. Covers history of Felix and Lucy Mattei, their hotel and tavern in Los Olivos. This includes the Stagecoach and Railway connections with the Pacific Coast Railway.  Picture credit Wayne Lloyd. Ken Kelley is aboard this train going over the Rocky Mountains in 2004. See Ken's talk on 2/25/07 (above).  Picture credit: 4449 The Daylight Decade, Harold A. Edmonson, Goodheart Publications, 1991. |
