"Unlimited free train rides with every admission! That's right. All our visitors can ride our full sized train as often as they want. We offer scheduled train rides every hour on the half hour beginning at 10:30 AM on both Saturday and Sunday. We also sometimes run the train on Friday when we have a school group scheduled in advance. You are invited to call the museum (210) 490-3554 during our regular hours to inquire if the train will be running on the particular day you are interested in. The admission rate is lower every Friday when the train is not in operation.

The Longhorn & Western RR is TTM's very own private railroad. We built it ourselves from scratch. Almost everything was donated to the museum, including the rolling stock and the very tracks our trains run on. The L & W is entirely the result of amateur volunteer labor!

The Longhorn & Western is the center piece of the museum. We have a genuine Southern Pacific depot, formerly located in Converse, Texas, which was built around 1941. We have two steam engines, two diesels, a passenger car, a business car, and a variety of other rolling stock, including cabooses and motor cars.

The Longhorn & Western railroad consists of 3,700 feet of track. The main line is 1,765 feet long, running from Wetmore Road, adjacent to the Longhorn Siding on the UP's mainline, from which our railroad takes it's name. Construction began in 1975 and completed in 1991 with the addition of a storage track behind the Elvey car barn. The railroad was built using materials and tools acquired from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, Missouri-Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads, all of which the Longhorn & Western has outlived.