Travel Town is an outdoor museum featuring several steam locomotives and some rail cars. Located in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, this is a great place to bring the kids. The miniature train in this video circles Travel Town and is a great favorite, as you can see.
Newark Air Museum – A short drive
Visitors from the US to the UK who elect to drive tend to want to lock themselves into their hotel or B & B room after their first adventure on the roads. It is not that the drivers are nuts, which they aren’t, or even that driving on the opposite …
Charnwood Museum
This is the Charnwood Museum located in the lovely Queen’s Park in Loughborough, UK. Loughborough is in the Charnwood Borough, which is in Leicestershire in England. The museum features local history and more. On the day I explored the park the sun was out and bright. Families were enjoying the …
Movies & Airplanes
One of the more interesting things at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica is this “airplane”. In fact, this is actually a replica of a Lockheed Vega. It is a movie prop that was made for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. At first it looks exactly …
Spirit of Santa Monica DC3
The Spirit of Santa Monica is a Douglas DC3 on stands in front of the Museum of Flying at the Santa Monica Airport. This is especially appropriate as the airport was the home of Douglas Aircraft through World War II. The statue in from of the airplane is of Donald …
Museum of Flying – Santa Monica
Now here’s something you don’t see every day. This is the building for the Museum of Flying at the Santa Monica Airport, and it has the nose of a Fed-X 727 protruding. At first it looks like either the coolest advertisement or the worst parking job in history. As it …
Travel Town’s Alco 3025
The last several posts we have talked about Travel Town in Griffith Park in Los Angeles. I think we may make this the last such post and then move on to some other super-duper things is the City of Angeles. This is Southern Pacific’s ALCO locomotive #3025 at Travel Town. …
Flying in Vancouver: Peason Field
I had the opportunity to visit Pearson Field in Vancouver, WA recently and discovered a really neat little gem. There are really three components to this. Pearson Field & Air Museum is part of the National Park Service (details at https://www.nps.gov/fova/learn/historyculture/pearson.htm) within Fort Vancouver. Pearson Field, as an actual airport, …