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Travel Town Museum is a railway museum dedicated on December 14, 1952, and located in 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.
Griffith Park is a large municipal park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park includes popular attractions such as the Los Angeles Zoo , the Autry Museum of the American West , the Griffith Observatory , and the Hollywood Sign .
Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn, a separate museum within the Los Angeles Live Steamers complex, opened in 1999. [1] The barn was the backyard workshop of Walt Disney, co-founder of The Walt Disney Company. Walt was an avid train enthusiast and his status as a charter member of LALSRM made the property a good fit to host the barn.
Bronson Canyon is located in the southwest section of Griffith Park near the north end of Canyon Drive, which is an extension of Bronson Avenue. In 1903, the Union Rock Company founded a quarry, originally named Brush Canyon, for excavation of crushed rock used in the construction of city streets–carried out of the quarry by electric train on the Brush Canyon Line. [1]
The original owner of the property was industrialist Griffith J. Griffith, who gifted the city of Los Angeles with 3,000 acres of land back in the 1880s. He raised ostriches on the property, and ...
I booked an Amtrak ride from California to Washington, DC, for $250. I learned a lot on the four-day trek, even though I'd traveled by train before.
Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn is a museum located within the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum (LALSRM) complex at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California.The barn, which was originally located in the backyard of Walt Disney's Holmby Hills home, features artifacts and displays related to Disney and his lifelong fascination with trains.
But in May, L.A. City Council and city transportation officials began studying the possibility of making some streets in downtown Los Angeles car-free. Although Griffith Park is among the largest ...