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Travel Town Railroad

Name: Travel Town Railroad
Address: 5200 Zoo Dr, Los Angeles, CA, US

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Nicholas And Kaena

February 5, 2016

If you enjoy trains, this place is great!

Howard

November 22, 2015

Travel Town, L.A.'s City Recreation and Park Department’s unique display of vehicles representing many modes and eras of conveyances, is visited each week by hundreds of youngsters and adults. The railroad is built around the perimeter of the Travel Town Museum. The museum has an outstanding collection of significant locomotives and rolling stock from Southern California. Travel Town was developed in the 1950’s. For many years the City operated a narrow gauge railroad ride along the Los Angeles River and Zoo Drive. When the steam locomotive could no longer operate, they began operating a trolley car until it too wore out. In 1975 the City of Los Angeles contracted with Railroad Supply Corporation (RSC) to build a miniature train ride within the museum. A team of employees led by E. V. Gustavson designed and built the 16” gauge track in about a year. The City then gave RSC a contract to operate the train ride. RSC purchased a live steam train from Gene Autry’s Melody Ranch and operated it until the boiler rusted out on the locomotive. New non-steam locomotives were custom built to replace the steamer and to this day they pull the original Melody Ranch coaches.