Visiting the Lomita Train Museum in 2024!

About 5 years ago, in July of that year, before the unforgiving COVID-19 outbreak closed everything down, my mother and I went to this little train museum located not too far away from Long Beach, California. And now, just 5 years later, and just two days before my birthday, we came back! Except this time it’s with my dad, not just my mom which you can see towards the end of the video.
**Please don’t make fun of my mom, she’s trying to look for a new job.**
Btw Here’s my 2019 visit: • Lomita Railroad Museum...
I didn’t know this at the time I first came here in 2019 that the museum had a little sound system installed on the engine itself. And believe it or not, I asked one of the ladies who work at this little museum if this was SP 2472, and I was right! I knew at the moment I heard that whistle and that bell from that recording that it was the very 4-6-2 pacific herself! They even had a CD collection of the sound recordings of that locomotive! Pretty cool huh?
Now about the 1765, there’s not too much explaining here because this is my second time going to the museum, but I finally got to ring her bell! I don’t know why it sounds similar to Sierra Railway #3’s bell, but it did sound really cool and I’m glad I finally got to ring it after 5 years of not noticing!
And just two days from now it’s almost my 25th birthday. You’re welcome.
Edit 8/5/24: My birthday is now tomorrow.
Edit 8/6/24: This is it! The time has come, and now today is now offically my Birthday!
One more thing: If anyone has never heard of Union Pacific #820, well here’s the catch. I didn’t know this at the time until I looked it up later that the locomotive was an FEF-2 class 4-8-4 Northern, similar to the Living Legend #844, and while researching, this locomotive has collided with a freight train back in August 3rd of 1950. What a tragedy it was, but at least the museum has one piece of that lost locomotive. R.I.P. #820.
©️ 2024 Fast Freight Productions

[@Railway_Riches]

I am glad that you enjoyed your visit! My friends and I love this museum with all of our hearts and if you ever want a walk around you’re always welcome in. - Richard

[@T128Productions]

Glad to hear it!

[@DillianTrainzStudios]

Happy Birthday! Glad you got to see 1765!

[@T128Productions]

Thanks! Although this is my second time I got to see the 1765, this is my first time I got to ring the bell!

[@gabrielawvr777redbirdelfer7]

1:12 The Bell of the 765 Sounds like a The Sierra Railway Number Three

[@T128Productions]

Actually, the number is 1765, not 765. See the 1 on the front numberplate?

[@gabrielawvr777redbirdelfer7]

@@T128Productions Ok I was wrong Fast Freight

[@T128Productions]

Half wrong, but also half right. Wrong because of the missing 1, but right because the sound of the bell is identical to Sierra #3’s bell, which I also stated in the description.

[@Railway_Riches]

@@gabrielawvr777redbirdelfer7 fun fact it is not her original. Unfortunately it was lost along with her number 6, headlight, and a plethora of fittings during her 8 years in the scrap yard.

[@CoreythelordoftheIsles]

@@Railway_Richeswas it originally air rung or hand rung?

[@DouggieFresh50]

This looks awsome

[@T128Productions]

I know. Although I pictured it better in my head, but at least when I got inside it wasn’t as smudged up as it was 5 years ago when I last visited that museum.

[@DouggieFresh50]

@@T128Productions ok

[@noahtrainzstudios]

Okay i used your whistles pack in Trainz 2022

[@T128Productions]

Cool. Sounds like you really enjoyed them.

[@noahtrainzstudios]

@@T128Productions i used them more

[@T128Productions]

Good to hear!

[@CoreythelordoftheIsles]

Was the whistle powered by an air compressor?

[@T128Productions]

Probably not because I didn’t hear the air compressor anywhere, so yeah no whistle.

[@CoreythelordoftheIsles]

@@T128Productions dang

[@T128Productions]

I know. If I heard the air compressor, I would’ve managed to blow that whistle. The lever inside the cab felt stiff and I wasn’t able to blow it anyway. Even if I did hear the air compressor noise, I still wouldn’t blow the whistle when there are little kids nearby and I didn’t want to startle them.

[@CoreythelordoftheIsles]

@@T128Productions oh okay,

[@Railway_Riches]

Inside of 1765’s compressed air reservoir we have a large speaker system which is controlled from our office. We have a set of 15 audio recordings looping throughout the day. As much as I’d love to have the whistle under an air compressor we are in the middle of a suburban neighborhood… so the neighbors wouldn’t be too fond of it. 😅

[@NicolasCruz3493]

i know you live in California

[@T128Productions]

Of course you do. Where else would this museum be, am I right?

[@t-12productions15]

I had no idea that RGS 22s headlight still exists

[@T128Productions]

Well now ya do, partner.

[@t-12productions15]

@@T128Productions WE MUST REBUILD THE 22, WE HAVE THE HEADLIGHT

[@T128Productions]

Why not have a replica? I mean anyone can take all the time they need and to have the original blueprints in order to build one without having to smuggle the original from one state just to have a locomotive operational again.

[@t-12productions15]

@T128Productions Yeah, and have run at Knotts with 41