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Special Events

RailGiants Train Museum Hours

RailGiants is open on selected weekends and during The Los Angeles County Fair

RailGiants Train Museum is open on the second full weekend of each month. Our hours of operation are from 10am until 5pm. RailGiants is located in the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona, California. During our open house weekends at RailGiants, visitors can walk around all locomotives and railcars and buy train souvenirs in our RailGiants Store in the depot. By walking up stairways into each giant locomotive, you can see into the cabs where engineers and firemen operated these large engines down the tracks of the nation’s rail network. Visitors are welcome to join us while maintenance and rehabilitation work is in progress and ask our volunteer museum staff members any questions.

Admission to the RailGiants Train Museum is always free. During the Los Angeles County Fair event, RailGiants is part of The County Fair, and there is no additional cost to enter RailGiants after purchasing an admission ticket to The County Fair. Any donation to help maintain our equipment is optional, but always welcome. The excellent conditional of our historic railroad equipment is achieved by the generous donations of past visitors and the help of our volunteer members.

Please note: when the scheduled Sunday falls on Easter, the museum will be closed on that Sunday.

Check the Event Schedule page for our current schedule of days and hours.

If you need to make arrangements to see RailGiants Train Museum on a day when we are not normally open, or for filming for television and motion pictures, please send us a message on our Contact Us page, or call the Museum Depot on 909-623-0190.

Los Angeles County Fair

The Fair is held for 16 days, starting on Friday, May 3, 2024, and concluding on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, 2024. RailGiants and the County Fair are closed on some weekdays; check our schedule for specific days. During the County Fair, RailGiants Train Museum is part of the County Fair and is open on every day of the County Fair. However, entry to RailGiants requires purchasing admission to the County Fair. Once inside the County Fair, no additional fees are required to enter RailGiants and see our trains.

Check the Fair's website for complete information regarding fair dates, times, parking, and costs.

Rail Meetings

Join us for monthly for updates, interesting programs about railroads, and visiting with your fellow members. Meetings are held on the second Tuesday or second Friday of each month at 7:30pm. For the most up-to-date information about our schedule of meetings, please refer to our Event Schedule page, or our monthly newsletter, the Observation Platform (O.P.). Any questions, comments, or suggestions about our meetings? Send us a message on our Contact Us page.

Friday, March 14, 2025 – Rail Meeting 7:30pm On Zoom

We moved our Rail Meetings to the internet. See access information below.

Southern Pacific - Sacramento to Sparks, 1976-1996, the final years Presented by Andrew Novak

Join us for a photographic journey from Sacramento, California to Sparks, Nevada across famed Donner Pass on Southern Pacific's (SP) mainline. Part of the original transcontinental railroad, this line was carved out of the granite mountains by hand and opened in 1869. Our journey begins in Sacramento at an elevation of 42 feet above sea level, travels east to Norden at an elevation of 6,891 feet, and down to Sparks at an elevation of 4,423 feet in about 160 miles. This presentation will focus on the final 20 years of the Southern Pacific from 1976 to 1996. Aside from the freight action, we will also see Amtrak's California Zephyr, the Reno Fun Train, and even the short-live Transcisco Tours Sierra 49er Express

How to attend our meeting:

  • On your computer’s internet browser, go to: RailMeeting.org (that will take you to the Zoom meeting room).
  • Password: 3450
  • Doors open at 7:15 pm (Pacific Standard Time).
  • Our meeting begins at 7:30 pm, on Friday, March 14, 2025. (Using international time, that’s at 02:30 UTC on Saturday.)

We recommend visiting RailMeeting.org before the meeting to download the most recent version of Zoom software.

Future Monthly Meeting Dates and Topics

Friday
March 14, 2025
Southern Pacific - Sacramento to Sparks

Tuesday
April 8, 2025
To be announced

Friday
May 9, 2025
To be announced

Tuesday
June 10, 2025
To be announced