Gold Coast Railroad Museum

12450 Southwest 152nd Street
Miami, FL, 33177
305-253-0063

URL : http://www.goldcoast-railroad.org

overview : The Gold Coast Railroad Museum, is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, exhibiting and operating historic railroad equipment. The Museum was started in 1957, by a group of Miamian's who were trying to save pieces of Florida history that were taken for granted and rapidly disappearing.

collections : Some of the earliest pieces in the collection are the FERDINAND MAGELLAN , the private railroad car built for Franklin Roosevelt, the Florida East Coast Railway locomotive 153 , the engine that pulled the rescue train out of Marathon, Florida after the 1935 hurricane, and the 113, an FEC locomotive built in 1913 and used in regular revenue service over the entire Florida East Coast railroad.

topics : railroading