EVERYDAY IS FREE DAY in Griffith Park

Take a trip back in time at Travel Town Museum in Griffith Park! You will have a fun learning experience as you tour INSIDE the historic train cars at the park.

Travel Town Museum is “an outdoor museum which features an impressive collection of

and passenger cars dating back to the 1800s. Travel Town is located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles, California’s Griffith Park. The museum’s collection primary focuses on the history of railroad transportation in the western United States from 1880 to the 1930s is, with an emphasis on Southern California and the Los Angeles area.

FREE Docent Tours are held the 2nd Saturdays of the month

from 11:00 am until 3:00 pm.
Group tours are available by reservation. For information call 323-668-0104, ext. 12.

For a different view of Travel Town, ride the scale train which circles the perimeter of the museum for a nominal charge ($2.75 each). The ride travels around the museum twice.

(16″ gauge) are:

The Courage – 2-6-0 Mogul

A 2-6-0 mogul built by Gerry Bowden in 1993. Sister locomotive to the Stanley Diamond.

This locomotive and its brother unit the Stanley Diamond were built in Oregon in 1993 to a design by our chief engineer, Gene Gustavson. They are modeled after the narrow gauge locomotives that worked the timber and mining areas of the West during the early part of the century. This unit has identical power as the Colonel Griffith.

he 1986 – Diesel Switcher
Diesel switcher built by Gerry Bowden in 1986.

A classic yard goat design, this locomotive is modeled after the EMD series of yard switchers. It is fitting that this is our heaviest and most powerful locomotive.

Pullman style – Six seat coaches
six seat coaches built by George Reddington in 1956 for Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch Special train.

Similar to the Pullman style coaches at GPS but longer, steel covers were added to these coaches in 1989 because Travel Town did not have a loading platform cover to protect the passenger seats from the sun. These coaches originally were a part of a set with a steam locomotive. The locomotive burned out its boiler and was sold in

This railroad is one of three miniature railway train rides within Griffith Park. The others are the 18 ¹⁄₂ in (470 mm) gauge Griffith Park & Southern Railroad and the 7 ¹⁄₂ in (190.5 mm) gauge miniature railway at the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum. The latter is independently operated.

Be sure to also  visit during the holiday season to take advantage of the Holiday Light Festival Train Ride, when the Museum is festively decorated and tens of thousands of lights transform the area into a magical wonderland. The Train Ride phone number is (323) 662-9678. For general information, please telephone the Operations Office at 323-662-5874

How to Get Here

Travel Town is located at 5200 Zoo Drive, Los Angeles. Just 12 miles north of Downtown in beautiful Griffith Park, we’re next to the 134 Freeway at the Forest Lawn Drive exit.

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