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Travel Town Museum  

What is it? Where is it? Well that is why I am writing this blog.

Travel Town in its pure form is an outdoor Transportation Museum of old railroad cars, which preserves and celebrates the railroad heritage of the Western United States. It is a fun place where you can get in, and walk through trains of Americas past. In its collections are Locomotives, freight cars, cabooses, passenger cars, and motorcars dating back to 1899.

The idea of Travel Town was created by Charley Atkins in the late 1940. The original intention of Travel Town was to be a railroad petting zoo. A place where children can imagine themselves as the engineer

Hours of operation

 

 

 

The Museum is open Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Sunday and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. It is closed Christmas Day. (During pacific daylight time, the hours are extended one hour.) Operations: (323) 662-5874
Mailing Address:
Travel Town Planning and Development
Department of Recreation and Parks
3900 W. Chevy Chase Dr, Mail Stop 656-3 Los Angeles, CA 90039

Located at Griffith Park is Travel Town. A short 20 minutes from Northridge. The Travel Town Museum is located at 5200 Zoo Drive, at the northwest corner of Los Angeles' Griffith Park. Exit Forest Lawn Drive, Ventura Freeway (134)

Admission Is Free

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Ashley Drake Gephart
Drake Intel Group - Albuquerque, NM
Dan sounds like a fun place to go visit.
Aug 17, 2007 05:44 PM
Joe Zapata
Keller Williams Realty Media World - Burbank, CA
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I take my kids here all the time, it is a great place to go and visit.
Aug 18, 2007 03:22 AM
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Dan - great post about the Travel Town Museum. Congratulations on being feature on Localism!! Keep up the great posts - I got your email - will respond to you.   

Aug 19, 2007 03:47 PM
dave thompson
B&J Real Estate & Notary - Dallas, TX
Dan great post when I visit the zoo I will plan on stopping here too
Oct 07, 2007 04:27 PM