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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 2, 2025, and concluding on Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, 2025. 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, September 12, 2025 – Rail Meeting 7:30pm On Zoom

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

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White Pass and Yukon Presented by Harvey Laner

This program, produced and narrated by Harvey Laner takes us back to September of 1997 when the White Pass and Yukon Railroad was in its first decade as a tourist railroad. The railroad had been shut down in 1982 and reopened in 1988. Both actions were based on economics. Lack of ore traffic and the increasing number of cruise ships making Skagway a port of call throughout the Alaskan summer months made the prospect of a profitable tourist passenger train business in 1988 viable.

Trains Unlimited Tours sponsored this White Pass and Yukon spectacular, promoted as the road’s first railfan trip. It was three days filled with exciting railroading.

The first day on the railroad saw travel from Skagway, over White Pass summit to Fraser, British Columbia and return. The train was a mixed consist of historic White Pass freight cars and four of the road’s coaches powered by two class 101 Alco diesels.

The second day on the White Pass featured an exciting two-train excursion. The first train consisted of passenger cars behind two of the unique 90 class Alco diesels. The second train was a recreated White Pass and Yukon Route freight train powered by Baldwin Mikado number 73, affording numerous two train photo runbys.

The third day on the railroad, the group traversed the entire 40.6 miles of the 110-mile railroad that was in service between Skagway and Lake Bennett, British Columbia. The train was powered by steam engine number 73 leading box car 742 and four passenger coaches.

It was three great days of railroading adventure on historic steam and diesel-powered trains with runbys in otherwise hard-to-reach locations. Locations that are uniquely White Pass and stand as a lasting testimony to the commitment and dedication of the visionaries that built this rail gateway to the Yukon.

How to attend our meeting:

  • On your computer’s internet browser, go to: RailMeeting.org (this will take you to the Zoom meeting room).
  • Password: 3450
  • Doors open at 7:15 pm (Pacific Daylight Time).
  • Our meeting begins at 7:30 pm, on Friday, September 12, 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
September 12, 2025
White Pass and Yukon

Tuesday
October 14, 2025
To be announced

Friday
November 14, 2025
To be announced

Tuesday
December 09, 2025
To be announced