Museum
Travel Town Railroad
5200 Zoo Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Open-air railroad museum with historic steam locomotives, cars, and a miniature train ride for kids.
This guide to Travel Town Railroad in Los Angeles's Griffith Park starts with what stood on this ground before the trains: a Second World War internment camp, fenced off to hold people rather than locomotives. It follows Charley Atkins, the city parks employee who wrote to the railroads asking if anyone had a steam engine to spare for Angeleno kids, and Southern Pacific's answer, a 1904 passenger locomotive hauled in free of charge in 1952. At first there were no fences at all, and children climbed freely into the cabs, day and night, imagining themselves as engineers.
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