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The Great American Train Show is the name of what was, for two decades, the largest traveling model train show in the United States. The company was incorporated in 1985 and went defunct in 2006. During the 1990s, the company operated as many as 90 train shows every year in 40 different states.
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.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway opened its first Fullerton station in 1888. [7]The station has three historic depots on site: one built in 1923 by the Union Pacific Railroad, [8] another built in 1930 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, [7] [9] and the third used by the Pacific Electric starting in 1918.
Gold: the California story. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21547-8. Holliday, J. S. (1999). Rush for riches; gold fever and the making of California. Oakland, California, Berkeley and Los Angeles: Oakland Museum of California and University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21401-3. Moody, John (1919).
All Aboard! For about 100 years, from the mid 1800s until the middle of the 20th century, railroads ruled the nation. The major rail companies — Southern Pacific, New York Central, Baltimore ...
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.
The Arcade Depot was the main Southern Pacific Railroad passenger railway station of Los Angeles, California between 1888 and 1914. It was located on Alameda Street, between 5th and 6th Streets. This station consolidated intercity services at a location closer to Downtown Los Angeles than the previous terminal, the San Fernando Street Depot.
The Glendale Transportation Center (officially the Larry Zarian Transportation Center) is an Amtrak and Metrolink train station in the city of Glendale, California.It is served by the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner inter-city rail route and the Metrolink Ventura County Line and Antelope Valley Line commuter rail routes.