06-16-2011, 08:57 PM
The Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, Ca currently has a loop track inside the museum grounds where they run trolleys when the museum is open. They also have a track outside the museum that currently runs almost to the Perris train station. The old train station has been restored and houses the Perris Historical Society, and is going to be the terminus for a new commuter branch from Riverside up the hills parallel to the "San Jac" (old San Jacinto branch.) The museum has built a pocket track at the station and is building tracks to the station. When completed people who want could ride the commuter train in from Los Angeles and switch trains in Riverside to come up to Perris, then buy a ticket to the museum and ride a train in from the Perris depot to the museum. That will be about a 5 mile run from the Perris station to the Museum entrance. They have an ex-Santa Fe Fp45 that they use to pull a passenger train out on the "mainline." On the third weekend of every month they will begin running a steam excursion behind a 2-6-2 prairie type once they have finished her overhaul.