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Travel Town Museum

The Travel Town Museum is a transportation museum in Los Angeles Griffith Park. The museum has many antique vehicles, rail cars, trains, trolleys. The museum primarily focuses on the railroad transportation from 1880 to the 1930s. The museum is open daily, except on Christmas and has free admission on all other days.

You can also have a small train ride around the perimeter of the grounds. This museum is located outdoors, in the Griffith Park. You will also find facilities like a gift store, group tours by arrangement and party facilities for rent.

The museum was originally conceived in the late 1940s as a fun place for children to go and explore a few old trains that were collected. The actual idea was of Charley Atkins, a Los Angeles Recreation and Parks employee. As the idea was very popular, the museum was opened in 1952. The museum has various steam locomotives and other rolling stock on exhibit, and some currently undergoing restoration. In some cases children are permitted to climb into the cabs of several steam locomotives as well as some passenger cars and cabooses.

The rail cars are quite useful in describing the construction and origination of each antique engine or car. You will also find some of the oldest trains in the museum like the well preserved 1864 Norris-Lancaster painted with black, red and green. Collections like 1899 Baldwin, Cooke Works donated by Consolidated Rock Products, a 1914 American Locomotive Company-Rogers Works from the City of Los Angeles are available for public display.

 

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