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NewsClick here to download a .pdf version of our 2007 Annual Report. Fast Facts Fast FactsStable operating income: 56% earned and 44% contributed EducationDo you want to know how field trips to local museums can help students and teachers address many of the California State Curriculum Standards, especially in grades K-5? The Solano County Museum Consortium and the Solano County Office of Education can help! Click here to download a free .pdf copy of “Standards Based Education Resources at Solano County Museums.” Click here to learn more about the school field trip program at the Western Railway Museum. Jensen Memorial Car House Construction Update
On Saturday May 3, 2008, the Western Railway Museum invites the community to celebrate the grand opening of its newest display building, the Loring C. Jensen Memorial Car House. The building is another major investment in the infrastructure of Solano County's most popular museum. It provides appropriate preservation of the core collection of electric railway equipment, and increased public accessibility to the collection. ArchivesDuring 2007, the Archives Department's devoted team of volunteers completed two important publications: “Key System Streetcars – Transit, Real Estate, and the Growth of the East Bay” and “The Journal of the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association #2.” “Key System Streetcars” is a 470-page book authored by the late Vernon Sappers. Archives volunteers led by Bart Nadeau and Harry Aitken finished the book and arranged to have it published by Signature Press. “The Journal of the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association #2” is a 92-page soft-bound, comprehensively illustrated publication compiled and edited by Bart Nadeau and the late Walter Rice, Ph.D. It contains seven articles on important aspects of local traction history by BAERA authors. While not publishing and editing, the Archives Department continued to receive and inventory several major photograph and book collections. Volunteers also cataloged over 6,000 new items into the Archives Database (bringing the total registered pieces to over 40,000), maintained the F.M. Smith Memorial Library’s schedule of twice monthly public days, and installed eight new color displays in Cameron Hall dealing with aspects of street railway history and the Association’s 60th Anniversary. |
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