Travel Town Museum

Travel Town Museum
Established December 14, 1952
Location 5200 Zoo Drive
Los Angeles, California 90027
United States
Coordinates 34°9′16″N 118°18′27″W / 34.15444°N 118.30750°WCoordinates: 34°9′16″N 118°18′27″W / 34.15444°N 118.30750°W
Founder Charley Atkins

Travel Town Museum is a transport museum dedicated on December 14, 1952 and located within the northwest corner of Los Angeles, California's Griffith Park. The history of railroad transportation in the western United States from 1880 to the 1930s is the primary focus of the museum's collection, with an emphasis on railroading in Southern California and the Los Angeles area.

Railway collection

The railroad museum portion contains 43 full-scale railroad engines, cars and other rolling stock.

Locomotives

Stockton Terminal Eastern locomotive No. 1

Their collection of 17 locomotives includes:

The Travel Town Museum's full locomotive roster can be seen here .

Freight cars and cabooses

Passenger cars

OR&L equipment preserved at Travel Town

There are 9 examples of passenger train equipment:

The Travel Town Museum's full Passenger Car roster can be seen here .

Trolleys, cable cars, and motorcars

Four various other passenger equipment examples:

Maintenance-Of-Way equipment

Motor vehicles

Additional railway museum collections and examples

Miniature train excursions

Tickets can be purchased to ride the Travel Town Railroad, a 16 in (406 mm) gauge miniature railway[40] for two circles around the museum grounds. This railway originally ran a train known as the Melody Ranch Special, which was once owned by Gene Autry. Its namesake originates from the Gene Autry film Melody Ranch. The passenger coaches are now covered and the original steam engine (which was sabotaged beyond economical repair) has been replaced with Courage, a chain-driven internal combustion motor housed within a façade representing a steam locomotive. This railroad is one of three miniature railway train rides within Griffith Park. The others are the 18 12 in (470 mm) gauge[41] Griffith Park & Southern Railroad and the 7 12 in (190.5 mm) gauge miniature railway at the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum. The latter is independently operated.

Exhibit room

Main exhibit hall

Houses additional transportation examples and exhibits.

East Valley Lines

Located behind a roll-up door in the main exhibit hall, the East Valley Lines Model Rail-Road N Gauge Club[44] operates their extensive layout.

Travel Town appearances in media

Travel Town is near many television and movie studios, which has prompted those production companies to include scenes requiring railroad equipment to be shot at Travel Town since it opened.

A small sample of the thousands of Travel Town's screen appearances is represented below:

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