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Gold Coast Railroad Museum
12450 SW 152 Street
Miami, FL
(305) 253-0063
Located 11.76 miles from Days Inn Miami AirportHome of the presidential railroad car Ferdinand Magellan.
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. Some of the earliest pieces in the collection are the Ferdinand Magellan , the private railroad car built for President 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.
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