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TRANSACTIONS NEWSLETTER ONLINE

August 1998
Transportation Museums and Attractions

More Transportation Museum Resources

The resources listed in Transactions are just the tip of the museum iceberg — following are additional resources to help you explore aviation, automotive and rail museums and attractions in California and beyond.

Books:

AAA California-Nevada Tour Book 1997-99
Published by AAA Publishing
1000 AAA Drive
Heathrow, AL  32746-5063
©1997
Available to members of the American Automobile Association and at your local library

Empire State Railway Museum's 33rd Annual Guide to Tourist Railroads and Museums, 1998 edition
Published by
Kalmbach Publishing Co.
21027 Crossroads Circle
P.O. Box 1612
Waukesha, WI  53187-1612
©1998 Empire State Railway Museum, Inc.
P.O. Box 455
Phoenicia, NY  12464
cost: $15.95

Guide to Over 900 Aircraft Museums
22nd Edition
Published by Michael A. Blaugher
cost: $18
To order, visit www.aircraftmuseums.com
or write or call Blaugher at:
124 East Foster Parkway
Fort Wayne, IN  46806-1730
Tel. 219/744-1020

Web sites:

The North American Tourist Railroad and Railroad Museum List - now featuring 1006 railroad attractions, with 733 links to additional information:
www.panix.com/~ni2p/tour/carr.html (for California sites)
www.panix.com/~ni2p/tour/map.shtml (for all of U.S.)

Classic Rail Cars - Info on renting a private rail car; site also offers links to the homepage of the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners (www.aaprco.com/), and a calendar of U.S. railroadiana shows:
www.classicrail.com/

Orange Empire Railway Museum library - links to other sites, including railway museums, railroads and rail-related sites:
www.oerm.mus.ca.us/library/index.html

Yahoo sites
www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Transportation/Trains_and_Railroads/Museums
www.yahoo.com/Recreation/Automotive/Museums/
www.yahoo.com/Science/Aviation_and_Aeronautics/History/Museums/

Homepage for NASA:
www.nasa.gov/

Aviation Enthusiast Corner - index of museums and airshows around the country:
http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu

Wings of History - links to aviation museums:
www.wingsofhistory.org/index.html

The CyberAir Museum
www.cyberair.com/museums/

Virtual library of Marin County history - with a special focus on transportation:
www.marin.org/npo/virlib/

For your information, the following six sites were taken from the National Model Railroad Association Directory of World Wide Rail Sites. Their Web address is:
www.rrhistorical.com/nmra/clubs.html#CA




-Compiled by
Catalina Alvarado, Marjorie Blackwell, Réka Goode,
Brenda Kahn and Caitlin Roper

 

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