Forestville; WEST COUNTY-JOE RODOTA RAIL TRAIL; Mirabel Avenue and CA Route 116; 707.823.7262 or 707.565.2041: http://www.traillink.com/trail/west-county--joe-rodota-trails.aspx; (Other links: www.sonoma-county.org/parks/pk_rodta.htm; www.sonoma-county.org/parks/pk_westc.htm): Ex-Petaluma & Santa Rosa Electric Railway route; 14 miles, paved with asphalt and NOTES: 1]. Traverses farms, vineyards, and similar agricultural settings, and across three trestles. 2]. Parking locations are at other than the trailheads along the route of the trail.

Los Angeles; SANTA BARBARA DAYLIGHT VINO TRAIN; Los Angeles Union Station, 800 North Alameda Street; 800.539.7245 or 714.546.6923; Overland Trail: Year-around, regular schedule (typically 7:30 a.m. - 7:15 p.m.), including approximately 2 3/4-hour train ride each way, attached to scheduled Amtrak trains. NOTES: 1]. Departs Los Angeles Union Station one Saturday each month, with meals prepared and served on board; 2]. Includes an escorted Urban Wine Trail walking tour of wine tasting rooms in Santa Barbara; 3]. A car sister to the Starlight Wine Bar & Café (see Sebastopol, California).

__________; TRAVEL TOWN; 5200 West Zoo Drive (Griffith Park); 323.662.5874: Year-around, daily (hours vary), railroad buildings, equipment, excursions, displays. NOTES: 1]. The focus is on southern California, with locomotives, rolling stock, interurbans and motorcars on display; 2]. Docent-lead tours through selected historic railroad passenger cars on the second Saturday of each month; 3]. The operating miniature Travel Town Railroad operates around the museum, providing an overview.

Nice; FEATHERBED RAILROAD; 2870 Lakeshore Boulevard; 800.966.6322 or 707.274.8378; Nine redecorated railroad cabooses, each uniquely themed, overlooking Northern California’s Clear Lake.

Santa Rosa; WEST COUNTY-JOE RODOTA RAIL TRAIL: Off West 3rd Street near Railroad Street: SEE: Forestville.

Sebastopol; HOPMONK TAVERN; 230 Petaluma Avenue; 707.829.7300; www.hopmonk.com/sebastopol/: Year-around, daily/varying hours, railroad building. NOTES: 1]. Former power station for the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Electric Railway, an interurban line; 2]. Offers a changing variety of unique microbrews and beer-friendly dishes.

__________; STARLIGHT WINE BAR AND CAFÉ; 6761 Sebastopol Avenue; 707.823.1943: Year-around, Tuesday through Sunday, hours vary (dinner only). NOTES: 1]. The rail car is ex-Southern Pacific bar-lounge #2985, one six streamliners built by Pullman in 1949 as the Golden Outlook; 2]. The menu offers a New Orleans “flair” that “echoes” the influence of southern cuisine on the Southern Pacific’s menus.

__________; WEST COUNTY-JOE RODOTA RAIL TRAIL; Abbott Avenue/Barnes Avenue off Petaluma Avenue: SEE: Forestville.

__________; WESTERN SONOMA COUNTY MUSEUM; 261 South Main Street; 707.829.6711; http://www.wschsgrf.org/page2/page2.html: Year-around, partial week/regular hours, railroad building, equipment, displays. NOTES: 1]. The ex-Petaluma & Santa Rosa Electric Railway station; 2]. Rotating displays occasionally touch on area railroad history; 3]. A restored Pacific Fruit Express refrigerator car commemorates that Sebastopol was once an icing station for express freight trains carrying perishables.

Studio City; CARNEYS STUDIO CITY; 12601 Ventura Boulevard; 818.761.8300: Year-around, open daily, hours vary. NOTES: 1]. The dining room is an ex-Amtrak streamlined coach of unknown origin, converted into a dining car setting, with a second ex-Amtrak coach converted into a kitchen and storage space; 2]. As seen on The Big Bang Theory.

West Hollywood; CARNEYS SUNSET STRIP; 8351 West Sunset Boulevard; 323.654.8300: Year-around, open daily, hours vary. NOTES: 1]. The dining room is an ex-Union Pacific heavyweight coach converted into a dining car setting; 2]. The kitchen is one-half of an ex-Union Pacific heavyweight bar car; 3]. As seen on The Big Bang Theory.