Red Car Museum

Red car is boring and rarely open. They could make it more interesting and engaging…

this just a red train in the middle of a park like some drunk union worker forgot to pick it up b4 his shift ended in 1930.

Wonderful stop along Electric Ave. in Old Town Seal Beach. Worth doing. If you enjoy surf culture or railway information, you will love this place. The docents are nice, funny and helpful. I loved looking at old pics of cities that i know, i know old town pretty well. not as well as i thought however. Did not know about the roller Coaster that used to be here, ofr the Jewel Café whcih is now a police outpost at the pier. The oldest surf board I have ever seen is hanging on the wall. carefully. I am not sure what type of wood it is made out of, but it is a classic. A museum does not have to have ancient artifacts to teach you something about the area. I don’t know how anyne could swim in wool knit swim suits a the lifeguards used to do. But they did. They have an original here. Must have been great to take the railway to the beach. Lot’s of good here.

There’s something special and magical about trains for a boy. Even more magical to me is the whole concept of the Los Angeles Red Cars.
Forget who killed the electric car. The big auto industry killed the public transportation for Los Angeles by buying out the trains and then paving and cutting the service they ran of. To think, Los Angeles already had a whole rail system going for it and we put pavement all over it.
Here you can see the tomb of the past in terms of public transportation. And really, if you take kids here, at least you let them run around a red car and they’ll be pretty excited. You can even sneak in a lesson or two by bringing them here about history between seeing an amazingly beautiful old part of Los Angeles.

A restored Pacific Electric Railway car sits on the corner of Main and Electric in downtown Seal Beach. Also known as the Red Car, this mass transit system served southern California using streetcars, light rail and buses.
The interior of this car houses historical facts and is open to the public. Admission is free and you can visit this little museum every second and fourth Saturday of the month between noon and 3pm.