Santa's Railroad Wonderland — Texas Transportation Museum

Santa's Railroad Wonderland is one of the annual events of the Texas Transportation Museum in San Antonio, which the museum lists on its home page among its annual events.

The Texas Transportation Museum describes itself as a volunteer-led organization that collects, preserves and displays historically significant transportation equipment. It operates a working passenger railroad, several model train layouts and many road vehicles.

The passenger railroad is the Longhorn and Western Railroad, the museum's private rail line built and maintained by volunteers. Its ride starts at the historic Southern Pacific depot, proceeds half a mile to the rail supply yard and the new town of Wallaceville, and returns. The museum lists a Missouri Pacific flat car and caboose as the cars passengers ride.

The museum's model railroads include an outdoor garden railroad operated by the San Antonio Garden Railroad Engineers and layouts in O, HO, N and Z scale operated by museum volunteers and model railroad clubs.

The museum's own train, the Longhorn and Western Railroad, takes 10 to 15 minutes for the round trip in a flat car or a caboose; the flat car is ADA accessible and the caboose is not, because of its historic nature. The museum also shows a garden railroad and four other model railroad layouts.

Texas Transportation Museum, 11731 Wetmore Rd., San Antonio, TX 78247; phone 210-490-3554 (weekends 9 am to 4 pm, voicemail only Monday to Friday). The museum says events may have separate pricing and times from regular admission, and lists its event dates on its home page and its ticket page for the event.