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Originally Posted by ozone
I remember seeing somewhere that the Railroad Museum of Technology was originally going to be where Towe Auto Museum is today. Does anyone ever see that too?
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Not quite, but close--the original MORT (Museum of Railroad Technology) was supposed to go just south of R and Front Street, along the current right-of-way of the Sacramento Southern and near the R Street railroad bridge. There is still a chunk of land slated for the Docks Project that belongs to State Parks, originally purchased for the museum. It was supposed to be built shortly after the Railroad Museum was completed, but budget crises took their toll and it never got built. There's a drawing of what the MORT would have looked like on the Central Pacific freight house along Front Street.
The warehouse where the Towe is, down by X Street, wouldn't be a very good choice for a railroad technology museum; it didn't have direct rail access anymore (the old SN tracks along Front Street were taken up in 1966) and at the time there were still some buildings from the old PG&E plant in the way.