Golden State Model Railroad Museum, Model railroad museum in Point Richmond, California

The Golden State Model Railroad Museum in Point Richmond is a 10,000-square-foot operating model railroad exhibit with O, HO and N scale layouts. It shows dozens of realistic city and country scenes, with trains from different eras running on several layouts. The museum is within the Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline park in the Brickyard Cove area.

The collection started in 1933 as a hobby group for model builders in Oakland and later became a public museum. The group relocated to Point Richmond and constructed the current facility beginning in 1986.

The exhibits show miniature recreations of famous California railroad routes and locations, allowing visitors to see how trains shaped the region's development. These small-scale scenes help people understand the importance of railroads in connecting communities across the state.

The museum sits inside Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline park in the Brickyard Cove area of Point Richmond, so it can be combined with a walk along the shoreline. The 10,000 square foot exhibit hall holds the O, HO and N scale layouts in one open space, letting you move between scales without leaving the room.

The museum's HO layout includes a scale model of the Oakland Mole, the long pier where Southern Pacific ferries met trains on San Francisco Bay until the 1950s. Visitors can also find the 16th Street station as it looked around 1955 and Martinez's John Muir trestle.