Laws Railroad Museum

The Laws Railroad Museum and Historic Siteis located on land donated to Inyo County and the City of Bishop by the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1964.  The museum is operated by the Bishop Museum and Historical Society under contract with those two agencies.  The gift deed from the Southern Pacific Company to the county and city reads as follows:  "In appreciation of the interest of Inyo County and the City of Bishop in preserving the memory of the Far West's last common carrier narrow gauge railroad, the Keeler Branch, Southern Pacific Company is pleased to donate steam locomotive No. 9 together with other rolling stock, and the Laws Station building and surrounding installations for safekeeping in behalf of generations to come."