Travel Town Railroad Museum Opens For Los Angeles Kids
Travel Town in Griffith Park Los Angeles showcases nine acres of rolling stock with 15 retired locomotives passenger cars diners cabooses and more. Admission is free with a small ride charge on the mile long three foot gauge train carrying Garfield Park engines coal car and two coaches from Hawaii. Last year the museum carried 103000 passengers and Charley Atkins a city parks department employee built the project by securing discarded locomotives and other railway artifacts from railroads and other vehicles.