Past Event
Thursday, April 16, 2026, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Wine & Lecture: San Diego's South Bay Railroads
1100 Orange Avenue, Coronado, 92118
Cost: $15 - $20
Enjoy an engaging evening with Bruce Semelsberger, archivist at the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum, and explore how the opening of the California Southern Railroad in 1885 transformed San Diego and sparked the Great Southern California Land Boom of the 1880s. Discover how San Diego’s would-be rail barons set their sights on Coronado and the South Bay, and find out what happened next in this fascinating chapter of local history. Wine & cheese reception at 5:30 pm
followed by the lecture from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. Member: $15.00 each
Non-Member: $20.00 each