Retired Train Cars in Griffith Park

[@OpenRoader]

Had at least 5 birthdays there in the 1970's when I was a little boy. Love them trains

[@Railfanner109]

I absolutely love that museum, I believe it’s called travel town. My parents always took me there when I was younger it was such a time there! It’s beautiful and I love that little train you could ride

[@roachtoasties]

When I was a small kid I remember my parents taking me. We did get to sit inside some passenger cars. Me, and a bunch of other people were sitting in the train when some actors dressed as cowboys firing cap guns walked through saying "This is a train robbery and this train is being hijacked!" Even at 7 years old, I realized these trains weren't going anywhere.

[@SantosChronicles]

Family friendly is something we are all about. We love road trips and this is a stop our little one would love. Reminds me of the train from Back To The Future III. The way you guy tell your story on site is something we can learn from you guys. So smooth.

[@IQ_155]

Personally, it was great for me to see your take on this museum. In 2012, I was in L.A. for two weeks working the Kings' games and on my only day off, I visited the Travel Town Museum. I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did. As always, congrats on yet another informative video.

[@DRFelGood]

Thanks!

[@OddityOdysseys]

Oh, wow. We still haven't recovered from being blown away by your most recent generosity. This is incredible of you, thank you so, so much! 🙏❤

[@DRFelGood]

@@OddityOdysseys YW, love your channel, content and adventures ✌️💜💜

[@markleach116]

Many years ago I had the honor of being able to ride in the cab of a vintage steam locomotive .... It was an experience I will never forget !!! Very dirty and steamy ... but a blast!!

[@Wolfspirit50]

This is an Amazing video!! Thank You Drew & Beth!!

[@OddityOdysseys]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DRFelGood]

Wow “OO” an interesting trip into the past ❤Thank you for sharing 💜 have a great weekend ✌️:)

[@frithkin]

That old cable car was really really cool all that history . Thank you for sharing

[@heynowls3058]

Cycle by museum often when riding through Griffith. Good fun. Love old trains. Thanks.

[@OddityOdysseys]

There's a lot of great trails in the area! Perhaps we'll cross paths on one of the soon. :)

[@noahcount7132]

Travel Town would definitely be worth a visit! I'd spring for the mini-train ride as well. Thanks, Bethany and Drew! 👍👍

[@atsfevan0242]

This place sure brings back memories. Not to mention is the one train museum I've visited the most over the years and still enjoy it everytime I go.

[@boomtownrat5106]

Never tire of Travel Town. I’ve been going there since the 1960s. When I had children, I brought them. When they had children they brought theirs… What is fun, too, is next door to Travel Town is the L A Live Streamers. A collection of training enthusiasts and their “toys” created this area to educate on train history, and to offer rides of their trains. Walt Disney Carolwood Barn, where Mr Disney built his miniature trains, is there to visit.

[@johnpotter8039]

My aunt worked for Disney starting in the 1940s, mixing the paint colors for the animation artists. I got to go to the Disney house in Holmby Hills when I was 3 for a children's event and rode on his miniature train. I remember it reasonably well after 70 years. I live in the East, now, and there are many such abandoned locomotives, cars, and wonderful steam shovels around, some being preserved and others rusting away.

[@boomtownrat5106]

@@johnpotter8039 What an experience to have. At the Richard M Nixon Museum and Homestead in Yorba Linda has Walt Disney’s miniature train. It may be the one you rode.

[@random22026]

There used to be a fighter prop plane, with fierce face painted on its nose, near the fence closest to the 134 Freeway. I didn't see it here--did you? 🤔 Great episode as usual--every Angelino should visit Travel Town! And tiny people LOVE IT...🤗🤗🥰🥰

[@gordybishop2375]

Just reminding me of the scenes in the movie The Jerk with a Steve Martin

[@chiefknowstomuch]

@@gordybishop2375 That was at The Los Angeles Live Steamers, just next door to Travel Town.

[@s.marcus3669]

Travel Town USED to have several aircraft on static display; by the time I visited in the late 1960s or early 1970s they had been closed off with chain link fencing. They were all US Navy planes; a Lockheed Neptune antisubmarine warfare, a Grumman Panther fighter and a Loon, an American-built Nazi V-1 cruise missile used for getting our own missile and rocket program off the ground, literally. They were all sold/donated to aviation museums sometime in the 1990s.

[@theflyingduckman3608]

As a kid, most of those engines and rail passenger cars were open to climb all over, including the fenced off cable car and closed yellow first class car. Great memories. Unfortunately insurance plus a lot of vandalism in the 80’s really hurt Travel Town.

[@brillblonde6705]

We visited here on one of my visits to LA. It was a fun day! Trains are awesome. There is a lot of history in this train museum.

[@jonathanlapham2374]

Looks like a great family park. Very nice they are preserving (or at least trying to preserve) some of the old railroad history. Than you for sharing this place with us!

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

A real antique big train museum like❤

[@gatblau1]

There are photos of me as a toddler in 1970 hanging out among these locomotives.

[@Yawndave]

Did any of those trains ever stop at Willoughby? 🙂 If you ever get up into Gold Country, the Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown is worth a visit. It's the home of Sierra Railway 3, the "movie star locomotive" that has appeared in many movies and television shows going back to the 1920s.

[@368fan4]

The Train runs on McDonald oil Smells like French fries. Also the Texas Long Bull named Nitro

[@capt.squirrel8516]

Willoughby! I wonder how many will understand the reference?

[@richardmoramarco6754]

Great to see it's still open, my dad took use there in the late sixties.

[@davidhorizon8401]

Always love you two. I like the casual style and interesting content.

[@GeraldoSimoes-sh1rs]

Have a nice Friday guys and thanks for the video.

[@OddityOdysseys]

Happy Friday!

[@williamlloyd3769]

Griffith Park Travel Town was a family favorite! Girls always like climbing like monkeys all over the big iron. Of course they liked the nearby carousel a bit more but they definitely enjoyed the day!

[@MrJojo2go]

Interesting FREE!!!! and Trains that's a good combination... Isn't it Walt Disney have some history with that area? 👍🏻😷👍🏿🇨🇦🇵🇭🇺🇲

[@manhunter433]

Travel Town USA, many fond memories for me growing up. What I would do to see these Iron horses in their glory days.

[@IntrepidMilo]

That's awesome! I would love to visit.

[@DovieRuthAuthor]

Great episode! Thanks!

[@nathansautodetail]

Cool! I've always been a fan of trains. Neat little area with lots of history.

[@stevensolway1054]

We also have the NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM IN GREEN BAY WISCONSIN, with many different steam locomotives 🚂 like the Gigantic Union Pacific 4017 BIG BOY 4-8-8-4 ARTICULATED MALLET BUILT BY ALCO in New York in 1941, and with 25 built during WW2, to pull long heavy freights over the mountains between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming. The other train collection in the L.A. Area is in Pomona, at the L.A. County Fairgrounds called the RAIL GIANTS Museum. And until 7 years ago also has their BIG BOY 4014 4-8-8-4, that was chosen by UNION PACIFIC, and fully rebuilt to work in 2019 at the 150th Anniversary of the GOLDEN SPIKE DAY on May 10, 2019 in PROMONTORY, UTAH, and Ogden, and Salt Lake City. And running the lengthy Exhibition Tour around America 🇺🇸 in the West, and Midwest cities with Duluth, Minnesota, and Chicago, Illinois. Now in 2023, BIG BOY 4014 ran another trip to Omaha. NEBRASKA in June 2023A.D., and a special guest for the college baseball ⚾️ tournaments. In Future years the 4014 will have other excursions to New cities. SEE YOU THERE, OK!! HI IN JUNE 2023A.D.!! ALL ABOARD,!! HI 👋 HIGHBALL,!!-! GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 🙏 ❤!!!!! AMEN ✝️ 🙏 🙌!!!!!

[@goldviper5280]

You guys are awesome. Thanks for the tour.

[@OddityOdysseys]

Anytime!

[@glenacebrown9995]

Growing up in the San Fernando Valley in the '60's, Travel Town was one of our "go to" places on the weekends. If we were REALLY good we got to ride on the little train.

[@MikeBaxterABC]

I love this chanel, I'm subbed and watch it most times it come up on my feed!! The hosts are intelligent, have pleasant voices, and look great on camera, they are well informed about the sights they show us!! The presentation is profesional, and well edited, this LITERALLY could be on Discovery Channel!! Exactly as it is!! :)

[@OddityOdysseys]

Hi Mike - Thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a wonderful sentiment. It's just the two of us that work on this channel, and we're always thrilled to hear when people think it's of good quality. Thanks again! - B&D

[@MikeBaxterABC]

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[@allenra530]

At the Pomona Fairgrounds there is another train exhibit with a number of locomotives and cars. Until the Union Pacific bought it back, the UP Big Boy, 4014 was kept there. It has now been restored to operation and is currently in Omaha, Nebraska. When the convention that it is there for is over, the locomotive will steam back to Cheyenne, Wyoming where the Union Pacific Steam Team is based. The locomotives remaining in Pomona are large ones, although not as large as the 4014.

[@levigato125]

Went here in the 70’s when I was a kid.

[@tattooyu]

Yay! Travel Town!

[@christophergonzales4840]

❤ great content like always i travel to 6 of your site's with my daughters .... we love it thank you 😊

[@OddityOdysseys]

Glad to hear you and your family have been able to do some exploring!

[@davidforsyth446]

Travel Town is the repose of several pieces of equipment that are the only surviving examples of their type, ideally these pieces could be deasseced and donated to other organizations with the capacity to stabilize if not restore them.

[@ac44000cw]

You guys missed the miniature train layout inside the big brown building Next time let me know plan ahead and I will give you guys a layout tour of one of the biggest train layouts in California Keep up the great work

[@OddityOdysseys]

We did see the miniature train on the inside building, but there was a group of people there and we weren't sure they would be okay with us filming them - but it is another cool section of Travel Town! Lots to check out.

[@ac44000cw]

@@OddityOdysseys Good Next time if you guys want to go inside and make another video about it, let me know and I will make it happen Once again Great work you guys do!!

[@joelfeiock4718]

you might be able to still operate a locomotive at the railway museum in Perris California.

[@richardmoramarco6754]

They have train rides in Perris and an LA street car ride.

[@peggycarlyle6409]

Super fun video!

[@BongoX2x2]

How have I never seen this place before? I’ve been to the Observatory many times and never knew this was here.

[@DogfatherTim]

Me too Bongo. And I love trains. Don’t know how I ever missed this.

[@anjachan2]

Beautiful 🤩

[@rrelectric5159]

Wow! Thanks for sharing this one. I first went to Travel Town a long time ago as a youngster and still remember the visit. You guys brought back good memories and I hope I can get there again because it looks like there are many new exhibits. As one who has operated a steam locomotive I can say Drew was pretty far off in his attempts to get it going.

[@OddityOdysseys]

Hahaha, Drew certainly had a thing or two to learn before he should be allowed to operate a locomotive! Glad to hear the video brought back some nice memories. Hope you have a great rest of your weekend! :)

[@sneadh1]

It was better in the 50s when you could ring the bells on the steam engines. Complaints from nearby residents put an end to that. 2 generations of my family had birthday parties in the yellow UP diner car.

[@ptolalibertad]

In sun city.. hwy 74..There was a Chinese bistro that used 3 train cars as the restaurant.. Closed for the sniffle virus.. Just moved to cars to a back lot to clear the land.. Always wanted to eat there.. too late now

[@princessmarlena1359]

Been to the abandoned LA Zoo, Travel Town, and the L.A. Steamers.

[@timmyangeltlc4888]

If I remember correctly the location was used in a Chuck Norris movie. Good guys wear black.

[@njaneardude]

Double O first class content!

[@BeeWhistler]

Have you two been to the train museum out in Perris? That’s another nice one. You can ride a full size train there and sometimes see skydivers in a nearby field. And I believe one of the train crossings they take you over is rumored to be haunted. So one of the porters said.

[@3DWhispers]

There’s a subway in LA? Well done guys, thank you

[@javier-m75]

was there recently great place to visit.

[@thoughtengine]

Graveyard, is right. Reminds me of the piles of vehicles they just won't throw out at places like the Bellarine Peninsular Railway, or the Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway. A sad place full of relics that won't ever come back into use, and given the volume, probably decay into nothing before they can possibly be conserved. They really should be in sheds. Say what they will about the Workshops Museum in Ipswich, but at least they have plenty of shelter for their exhibits, unlike Rosewood, where the collection is basically backed up into dead-end spurs and left to die. Looks like a sad place where some unique pieces have been left to rot, destined only to appear in fine art photography and, in the right light, liminal space images.

[@HootOwl513]

Steam locomotives deliberately had unlabeled controls so unauthorized persons could not operate them. A man usually had to be a ''Fireman'' shoveling coal under the boiler and helping the engineer. In this way he learned the ropes from the engineer. After years of such observation, he could be promoted to Engineer after passing a board examination. When the railmen went on strike in the 1870s, management tried to employ scabs to run the trains. A lot of boilers exploded because these guys had no idea which lever to pull, and mistakes could be fatal.

[@TrainLovers-TL69]

Nice museum 🚂🚃🚃

[@tse90723]

Were there any of the Red line street cars from Long Beach, Ca?

[@coolhandscoot68]

Very cool guys

[@donutdealer74]

I love your content.

[@OddityOdysseys]

Thank you, Lord Donut!

[@benmulder6487]

There's a track that goes by the lake my family goes to every summer and whenever I train would come by I would always run to see if it had a caboose to it, not sure how it started for me but I always did when I was a child

[@jokeroneninesevenzero]

Very cool.

[@tedott8257]

My ex wife used to one day she came home told me a story they would rent train cars out for parties she walked in on one of these parties one day and they were filming an adult film happened more than once

[@andyhudgens]

This is my favorite place to be at 🚆

[@blockisle9]

So disappointed with You Tube. I have very few notifications enabled and your channel is on the top of the list. I missed this and all the videos after it. Any way as always, thanks for your tour of California must see spots.

[@TCHSDragonflicks]

I have always wondered how they got the trains here. Was it ever connected to the main line?

[@chiefknowstomuch]

no, they where all trucked in.

[@OpenbaarVervoer2D]

Haha, folks not even know how a steam engine operates. I wished they had one of those operational to ride a loop around the premise. You should visit one that is in operation next time 🙂.

[@Lazy.Train.videos]

Can you whistle the trains or no?

[@dudeman5569]

Might be the only part of the park with no homeless

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

I❤travel town la zoo

[@ICU306]

“Shovel in some coal” sir, that engine in particular is powered by crude oil 😭

[@robinl9206]

Cool😊👍

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

See the union and southern pacific trains two of the trains that in historical image s of prominitory point, Utah 1869 transcontinental to the west linked are replicas of

[@vincentberkan605]

1:11, a key? It's a steam locomotive, it doesn't use keys.

[@sneadh1]

He's joking.

[@howardb.6205]

You guys ever seen the movie "The Jerk" with Steve Martin?

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

I wish i could see lucky baldwins train

[@calrob300]

V cool... Too bad it's ALL the way across the country for me! FYI, it would not have been pleasant to ride up in the cab "back in the day". It was HOT, noisy, dangerous and hard work. If something gave way or you weren't paying adequate attention to your water level, you might get scalded to death by steam or have the boilet blow up. This never ended well. Good times.

[@arrjay2410]

It's a shame they have been left to decay. I guess they need a wealthy donor and some volunteer workers to restore things.

[@368fan4]

Gah`morning O.O.

[@OddityOdysseys]

G' Mornin', our friend!

[@davidmoser3535]

a fanny pack

[@amyreynolds3619]

Your don't know how to operate a steam locomotive.

[@peterwestcarey897]

Thanks!

[@OddityOdysseys]

Thank you so much for your kindness & generosity, Peter! Much appreciated. :)