Laws Railroad Museum And Historic Site Tour - Laws/Bishop California
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- This video takes us on a tour of the Laws Railroad Museum and Historic Site in Laws, California which is a few miles outside of Bishop, California.
The museum is free to enter and focuses on railroad and mining history. There are 11 acres of indoor and outdoor exhibits as well as a mock up of a mine and mill.
We visited for at least two hours with Ron Morefield, who gave us a great demonstration of a couple hit and miss engines, plus the history behind several more engines, that are there at the museum. There is also the original depot and the Slim Princess, a narrow gauge train that served the rail stop at Laws. It is a great museum that will take at least a few hours to explore.
Here are links to two related videos about the hit and miss engines.
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Hi Tom :) Just want to say, great..great video!!! This was a great way to spend a half an hour this morning :) You did really well with this video, and you really captured a lot. Lots of detail. I didn't realize that there was so much to see at this museum, other than the trains. This museum appears to be very well maintained and kept. I have wanted to to see this place for a few years now, but after seeing your video this morning, I really want to see it soon. I used to take annual summer trips to Mammoth Lakes, and haven't been up that way in at least 10 years. Thank you for doing this video and sharing it with all of us :) I have subscribed to your channel :)
Thanks for the great comment, John. I'm glad you enjoyed the video, and museum, and I appreciate the kind words. I really hope you get a chance to go visit this place soon. Leave yourself plenty of time to see everything. The price is right, too, free! Thanks for subscribing to my channel also.
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Hello Tom and Julie this popped up and I never knew you went through this museum but I was there too I spent 5 hours it's an excellent museum but anyway thank you love the way you talked about your adventure at the museum toot toot 🚂
Hi Case. Thanks for watching! We love the Laws Museum. So happy that you have spent some time there. 👍😊
Here is our playlist of the eight videos we have made there.
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@@TomandJulieMineExploring Thank you for the list of more about Laws and area far out 😀
You're welcome, Case!👍😊
Things are moving so fast. I can't imagine what it will be like in 100 years... Thanks for sharing...
One can only imagine what the future will bring. This is one of the most fun museums we have been to, and it's free. Thanks for watching, Allen!
Just took the Bishop museum tour using your video. It was awesome with great photography and narration by Tom. Been to Bishop countless times in the 70's and 80's and never knew it was even there. My great uncle owned a bar in the town of June lake so we pretty much went there for the free beer. Way cool museum though, Thanks!
Yes, this is a great museum and the price is right. Free! I hope you're able to check it out.
Museum! Train museums are so much fun!
This is definitely a fun place. Thanks for the comment!
Thank you for taking us along. It is hard to believe that this wonderful museum is free. There is so much to see there and something for everyone.
I was surprised that it is free, too. You are correct in saying there is something for everyone here. I really appreciate what a loyal supporter you are of my channel. Thank you!
You are very welcome. You make great videos.
Hello, Found an oldie but goodie video. Nice museum tour.
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The laws museum is fantastic. We have a few videos from there. Here are links to a couple more. Thanks, Stephen!
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What a nice tour of a Railroad and Mine Museum... I enjoyed see the old belt driven equipment. I sure do need to make a trip there and see it in person... Thanks Tom and Julie...
Hi Randy. The museum is really a fun place and the price is right. Free! I would plan on spending at least a few hours there. Certain days of the week, they will start the 15HP hit and miss engine in the mining display area. Here is a link to more of our videos of the museum if you're interested. Thanks for watching!
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That is quite the place.. A little bit of everything. Only came across 4 intact insulators over the years. Still have all four.
A lot of interesting things here for sure. Glad you found your insulators. The only ones I have ever stumbled across have been in pieces. I think they made good target practice for bb guns and 22's. Thanks for the comment, Max!
love the old cases, I have one that has been in the family for 3 generations. that was a lot of branding Irons. Wow quite a collection of everything. guns collection alone is worth the trip there. The steam locomotive looked a little complicated with all the valves. the wagons are amazing. Great museum guys, I really enjoyed it, Thanks for sharing.
It is quite a place and the price is right. There is of course much more that I didn't show on the video. Thanks for watching, John!
Seen on a previous video the man in the engine shop.
Thank you thank you so much for this. I am bed ridden and sick. The tungsten mine that my family mind created an illness in us that made us all ill. Killed most of us eventually. I am the little girl who played with all of those things behind the class windows when I was growing up. My family is the Guthrie family and we all were born and raised in that little tar paper Shack right across the street from the museum office that you see. I've been longing to see my home. God bless you God bless you thank you. My mother took that train to school every day and it was my jungle gym when I was a little girl. I'm in tears I'm so happy
My Aunt Bonnie's picture is in the museum as well as other pictures I believe of my family.
Thank you for the nice comment, Mistaya. I'm sorry to hear you are not feeling well but I'm happy you can see your childhood home and some things that were important to you from the past. I hope you can get healthy enough to go back and see your home and some of the museum in person. I will be back in this area again next spring so please let me know if there is anything else you would like to see on video. Feel free to leave any more comments you might have here. Thanks, Tom
Most definitely! That little shack across the street from museum. Its still our home...video of that for my children wpuld be epic and a Godsend! Anything else icing on the cake! Spent a couple years on the rez too! So beautiful! Thanks! ❤
I will be more than happy to video the shack and anything else you might want. We will be back there in April of 2019.
You're the best brother! God bless!
This was a cool museum. They had so many different oddities. The history was amazing! Thank you for sharing! :)
It really is a cool place. We spent two half days there and could have easily spent more time there. I made two more related videos about the hit and miss engines if you like those. Ron Morefield gives us a couple of great demonstrations. Thanks for watching!
I love places like this. It's kind of like you can step back in time. Great place, thanks for sharing.
Yes, very fun to step back in time. I love it, too. Be sure to stop in if you are ever near by. Thanks for watching!
Hello, Tom & Julie. What a great tour of the museum. Thank you for bringing me along. Can't believe you have not had more views on this video. Try updating the thumbnail, so TH-cam will give this video another go, try promoting this when people go to your page. I believe more people would love to see this if they knew about it. Maybe do a voice-over, re-release this one as a special oldie but goodie, or something. It deserves a lot more views than 3,000. I don't see other channels doing this type video, along with the mines. More people want this kind of content along with mine explores, to better understand what was happening at the mines, and towns back in the day. Thanks again, really hope you try the thumbnail, and do a voice-over, re-upload this one as a new video, I am sure it would do fantastic.
Thank you for watching the video, and we're glad that you enjoyed it, Gary. We appreciate your input on helping to get this video more views. I don't think anyone really understands how the TH-cam algorithms work as far as the way videos are promoted. I agree that this video should have more views. I say that not just because it's our video but because I believe the content warrants it. Maybe we can make it our featured video that plays when people come to our channel to see if that gets it back in the mix. I don't really like doing or listening to voiceovers, so that probably won't happen. We have made several other videos of different parts of the museum, some of which have done quite well. I will put a link here to our Laws Museum playlist so you can see all of the videos if you'd like. Thanks again!👍😊
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Ty for the share
You're welcome and thanks for watching!
You guys should tour the huge Museum up at Bridgeport
Sounds good. We'll put it on the to-do list. Thanks, John!👍👍
Hi Tom my mother in law was born in Goldfield NV somewhere in Laws her parents picture is in Laws its an oval old fashioned picture didnt see it in video my wife and i were at Laws back in the mid 90s
Hi Dan. Thanks for sharing your family story. We love the museum at Laws. It's been a few years since we've been there, so we should go back again.😊