The museum has over 30 locomotives and 80 cars of various ancestory and unlike many other museums, visitors to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum soon discover that this is a hands-on facility and are encouraged to climb up in the cabs of locomotives, to sit in the engineer's seats, and to browse through the many cabooses and passenger cars that are on display. The museum also maintains a gift shop located within the diesel shop as well as a snack bar which is open weekends during the summer months.