Western Railroad Discussion > San Luis Obispo

We will be traveling to San Luis Obispo next month for four days to attend our daughter's concerts. Days will be free so I am wondering besides #11 and #14 what other activity might I find as far as fright traffic? Of course I have studied and we will frequent the museum.
Thank you for your info.
Blaine McKinney
American Fork Utah

Oil Cans in the early and late hours a couple times a week.

Baretable and auto repos southbound. They average out to about 1 per day.

Unfortunately not really anything more....

Davis

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There are also two Surfliner runs that terminate at SLO, one overnight and one mid-day.
Check out the museum just southeast of the depot too.

How for north does the local out of Guadalupe run?

Careful not to conflict with these guys:

Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society
2014 Annual Conference
San Luis Obispo, California
October 29th - November 1st

http://www.sphts.org/convention/



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Be sure to check out the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum!!!

http://slorrm.com/

Bob

ATSF100WEST......Out

Go up to Cal Poly. The main line runs through campus if your in the right spot you can see the train roll by.

Go have lunch, the town has great restaurants.

Out

If you are in town on Thursday night, check out the Farmer Market downtown SLO. The BBQ is GREAT!
Just ask anyone and they will tell you how to get to it.

If your into Model RailRoading , then drive North up to the City of Atascadero and " Central Coast Train" a friendly and well stocked shop

Go south 30 miles to Santa Maria/Guadalupe and check out the Santa Maria Valley RR. Best time to find something running is between 1 and 5pm.



Allen

SLO and vicinity are delightful, but not many trains. SLO has a great downtown, Morro Bay and Pismo Beach are fun coastal towns, and there are good restaurants all over. Also a lot of wine tasting.

My daughter graduated in 2009 - enjoyed the visits.

Jim B

Headed down to visit my daughter on Friday. Will try and swing by the museum maybe Friday afternoon when she's in class.

BNModeler Wrote:
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> If you are in town on Thursday night, check out
> the Farmer Market downtown SLO. The BBQ is GREAT!
> Just ask anyone and they will tell you how to get
> to it.

As an FYI people used to ask me why Farmers Market was/is on a Thursday night instead of Friday or Saturday. The reason? Thursday night used to be cruise night for all the guys that were into cars and hot-rods. The downtown shop merchants began complaining about losing business in the late 1970's, so the city put a stop to it by simply replacing cruise night with Farmers Market.

The car guys were NOT happy!



Allen



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Waybiller Wrote:
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> Headed down to visit my daughter on Friday. Will
> try and swing by the museum maybe Friday afternoon
> when she's in class.


Museum is only open 2nd and 4th Saturdays, 10AM to 4PM.


V

SLOCONDR

Thanks to all who responded and thanks to Trainorders. Looks like I have a lot of exploring to do.
Thank you all.
Blaine

The guy who lives near the Monterrey underpass, with all the cactus in his yard,
wrote an interesting rail related book. A chance encounter one time while exploring there.

http://www.amazon.com/Hopping-Freight-Trains-America-Littlejohn/dp/094462734X