Santa Maria Valley Railroad

Santa Maria Valley Railroad is located at 625 S. McClelland Street (from the Hart Home, proceed south on McClelland Street).

Built in 1911, the railroad ran from Guadalupe to the Cat Canyon oil fields. In 1925, Captain G. Allan Hancock build the existing building, which housed the city's first radio station, KSMR, and the Little Theatre. Railroad President Sue Sword said that it was the captain who began transporting the valley's vegetables and fruit throughout the United States and Canada. The Santa Maria Valley Railroad remains in operation today.