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The museum was originally located within the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and later moved to a historic department store designed by Welton Becket. Opened in 1962, the building first served as a short-lived U.S. branch of Seibu Department Stores, before operating as an Ohrbach's department store from 1965 to 1986. Six years ...
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.
Stored, Southern California Railway Museum, Perris, California 2379: FM H-12-44 Operational, Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas: 2873: EMD GP9/GP9R: Operational, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola, California 2954: ALCO RSD-12: Stored, Southern California Railway Museum, Perris, California 2958: ALCO RSD-12
In 1902, Huntington and banker Isaias W. Hellman established the Pacific Electric Railway, which would acquire other railways, providing interurban service to new suburban developments and surrounding towns in what is now Greater Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino County and Riverside Counties). The company operated distinctive ...
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or ...
Static display, Travel Town Museum, Los Angeles, California [40] [41] 6636 1937 Pullman Company Sleeping car: Static display, Travel Town Museum, Los Angeles, California [42] 5810 January 1942 Pullman Company Floor Plan 7470 Static display, Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California [43] LA-701 1937 Pullman Company -
First cars built new for Pacific Electric. Renumbered in 1911. Car 524 maintained at the Southern California Railway Museum: St. Louis "Medium Five" 1909 [65] 230–249 530–549 [65] 20 [65] 1934 Renumbered in 1911. Car 530 maintained at the Southern California Railway Museum [data missing] [data missing] [data missing] 250– [66] [data ...
The Nethercutt Collection is a multi-storied museum and car collection complex located in Sylmar, California.It was founded by J.B. Nethercutt in 1971 and its centerpiece is the prestigious automobile collection of the Nethercutt–Richards family that contains over 250 cars, nearly all of which J.B. originally collected and owned.