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You’ll discover the Gold Coast Railroad Museum only a hop, skip and a bounce away from Zoo Miami. Here you’ll be able to wander through over 40 rail cars of yore, including the Presidential Rail Car Ferdinand Magellan, which carried presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and—for one day through the 1984 election campaign—Ronald Reagan. Since it is a relaxed affair, it’s excellent for household day journeys, and kids can take pleasure in a ride on the Edwin Link Children’s Railroad for less than the price of a cup of coffee.
Then in 1941 the museum purchased a Diego Velázquez portrait of the Infanta Margarita of Spain, which was probably a research for a larger portrait of her in Vienna. Other major benefactors through the museum’s first quarter century were Archer M. Huntington and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Timken, whose small art assortment is housed within the nearby Timken Museum of Art, …