At the northern edge of San Antonio International Airport is the Texas Transportation Museum. A volunteer-operated organization also hosts the outdoor G-scale layout of the San Antonio Garden Railway Society and the HO layout of the Alamo Model Railroad Engineers. The hosts at TTM were simply great. They wanted to let me in free because I am a volunteer at another railroad museum. Knowing how tough it is to finance operations like this I insisted on paying like any other visitor. I had a private ride on the Texas & Longhorn RR and a wonderful time looking at everything on exhibit, including a lot of non-railroad powered equipment from lawn tractors to fire engines. Here's a photograph of mine from April, 2005 showing Santa Fe business car 404. TTM also has another heavyweight; Pullman 12-1 sleeper "McKeever". The TTM website has a lot of good pictures, inside and out, of these heavyweight treasures. Note: TTM has no rail connection to the outside, so you can understand what a big job it is to bring large artifacts like Pullmans onto the site.
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