South Florida Railway Museum, Railroad heritage museum in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
The South Florida Railway Museum occupies the 1926 Seaboard Air Line Railway station at 1300 West Hillsboro Boulevard, built in Mediterranean Revival style with arched entryways, arcades, stucco walls and a barrel-tiled roof, the same design as the Seaboard stations at Delray Beach and Homestead. The station house stands beside the northbound platform, and the museum inside displays model train layouts and railroad equipment.
The station was built in 1926 by the Seaboard Air Line Railway as a key hub for regional rail operations. The building was later added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The museum occupies the former Seaboard Air Line less-than-carload freight facility beside the station house. Volunteers run two model layouts, the HO-scale South Farmington Rail & Mule Railroad and South Florida N Scale, and display model locomotives in the liveries of railroads through the years, plus bells, whistles, apparel, tools and literature from 1901 onward. A full-sized mock-up of the tail end of a Pullman observation car stands inside.
The station sits at 1300 West Hillsboro Boulevard, just east of North Military Trail, with parking lots on either side of the two side platforms. The station house stands next to the northbound platform, and buses stop at a loop west of the southbound platform. A sidewalk grade crossing at the north end links the platforms.
The building is still used by modern train services like Amtrak and Tri-Rail, blending its historical function with today's transportation needs. This dual role makes it an active transit hub rather than a frozen piece of history.
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