The California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento is debuting this week a new STEM-focused exhibit called "A Shift in Power."
Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, the exhibit highlights "simple electric circuits in a setting designed to evoke the period of transition from steam to diesel-electric power for U.S. railroads, generally from 1947 to 1955."
The museum described the new exhibit in a statement.
Elements of the new learning experience at the Railroad Museum will include a toy train layout that is perpetually under construction, large format photographs, a flipbook showing examples of innovation in railroading, test benches with simple low-voltage components for both alternating and direct current, a "video window" showing video of railroading scenes, tools and memorabilia from the early 1950s, and "snoop" elements that will allow visitors to open doors and flip pages to discover related content.
The "A Shift in Power" STEM learning experience be displayed at the museum through July 2016.
