Special Events

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. 

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.

The Fair is held for 17 days, begins on Thursday, May 7, 2026, and concludes on Sunday, May 31, 2026. 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.

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.

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

Mexico – Destination Nacozari
Presented by Harvey Laner

For three exciting days in September of 1988, Ed and Mary Lee Von Nordeck’s Let’s Travel Tours sponsored a chartered train on the NdeM’s Nacozari subdivision.

The train traveled from Nogales to the copper mining town of Nacozari by way of Agua Prieta. Harvey Laner videoed the trip extensively from the “front porch” of the Bombardier M424 diesel locomotive to the caboose’s rear platform.

The program features scenes that showcase railroading in Mexico in the 1980s, reminiscent of railroading in the US some forty years earlier.

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, March 13, 2026. (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.

Friday
March 13, 2026
Mexico – Destination Nacozari

Tuesday
April 14, 2026
To be announced

Friday
May 8, 2026
To be announced

Tuesday
June 9, 2026
To be announced

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