San Salvador's Railway Museum occupies part of the old railway complex, where locomotives, carriages, workshop equipment, and station architecture tell the story of a transport system that once tied the capital to ports and inland towns. It is most interesting as an industrial-history stop rather than a polished national museum.
The theme-park touches make the site more family-friendly, but the real reason to come is the hardware: engines, rails, platforms, and photographs that give physical scale to El Salvador's railway era. Pair it with other central San Salvador museums if you want a half-day away from the city's better-known monuments.