San Antonio Railroad Heritage Museum

06/15/2026

06/13/2026

Our guys were out at the Floresville depot beginning the clean up. There was considerable dirt and trash inside the depot. Two large trash bags were hauled out. The next work day will be centered on securing the baggage room from intrusion.

If you’d like to be a part of this project, please reach out to our Floresville division and come on our to help!

06/13/2026

Come on by and check out the Floresville depot today, frown 9am to 2pm!

Come join us today! We’re here at the depot and are going to be working on cleaning out the interior of the trash that has been left inside.

06/01/2026

Today was a very productive day. We had a substantial clean up, mowing, w**d cutting, debris clean up and some roof repairs.
A big “Thank You” to all who showed up today and participated.

05/30/2026

SARHM wildlife watch!

We had a visitor out at the museum this evening! This little Armadillo was out snooping around, assumably looking for food. It’s the first time we’ve seen one one the property!

05/18/2026

Now for the moment you all have been waiting for!!!!

SARHM is excited to announce, we have entered into an agreement with the Gulf & Ohio Railroad to acquire the LAST remaining San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad locomotive, the SA&AP #60!!!

This has been years in the waiting! We had been negotiating with the Stone Mountain Memorial Association prior to being sold to the G&O. When the locomotive was sold off, we never gave up hope that we could one day return the SA&AP 60 home to Texas and her home rails! Today, that dream has finally come to the point where it will become a reality!

With Scott Lindsay’s experienced eyes on site today, we did an initial survey of the locomotive and its condition. It definitely needs some serious work, but as Scott said, it’s all relative. In addition to worn out parts and missing parts, we will be putting together a plan of attack for the restoration plan….

Oh yes, we WILL be restoring her to operation!!!

The main, GLARING, issue we found was with the outer firebox wrap. The metal is thinned in several places, sever pitting, case iron rigid stay bolts, NO flexible stay bolts…. Yes, you read that right, no flexible stay bolts. For those that don’t know, that is the reason she was removed from steam operations at Stone Mountain in the early 90’s. We don’t know the full details, other than what Mr. Kevin Wood who worked on her at that time told us, that during the rebuild at that time, someone decided to replace the flexible stays with rigid stays. This is an immediate violation and can lead to a VERY catastrophic event occurring! There are also some extremely poor previous boiler patches on the firebox, that just will not pass inspection.

In the coming weeks, we will be posting more detailed photos (we’ve got a SD card full) where we will discuss other issues and repairs that will be needed. We will also be discussing our plan for the phases of restoration. For now, we are going to start with getting the Baldwin boiler diagrams and such to make a comprehensive restoration plan.

We will be launching a page on our website in the coming week with a dedicated donation button for this project!

WE ARE SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!!!! IT’S A DREAM COME TRUE!!!!

05/16/2026

Our EHRM staff was kept busy today with museum tours, and of course, the Star of the show was the Alamo. One visitor commented that it was like taking a step back into a time, when traveling by rail was an adventure.

05/15/2026

So this coming week, there’s going to be a HUGE announcement that is going to blow some minds! Not going to say a whole lot, but the accompanying photo will drop a hint….

We honestly can’t wait to make this announcement!