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Railroad Museum of South Florida, Fort Myers, FL

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Railroad Museum of South Florida

A volunteer-run railroad museum in Lakes Regional Park with restored outdoor locomotives and a short miniature train ride.

7330 Gladiolus Dr, Fort Myers, FL 33966 · Fort Myers, FL

About Railroad Museum of South Florida

The museum is a nonprofit operating an interpretive center in a depot-style building inside Lakes Regional Park in Fort Myers. Outdoors it displays a restored 1905 Baldwin locomotive and tender and a restored 1953 Seaboard Airline caboose. Visitors can also ride a roughly one-mile miniature train through wooded areas, lakes, and small model villages that depict Southwest Florida communities around 1950. The ride takes about 15 minutes and passes through a tunnel and over a trestle bridge.

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