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 – Empalme Get-Away
Presented by Harvey Laner

In November of 1989, Ed and Mary Lee Von Nordeck’s Let’s Travel Tours sponsored a three-day trip to Empalme, Mexico to visit the massive NdeM’s Pacifico shops.

The fully narrated program begins with a cab ride on the Sonora,-Baja California division’s Mexicali section of NdeM train 2 for Guadalajara. At Benjamin Hill, the SBC EMD GP40-2 power is removed as we enter the world of NdeM’s ALCO and GE power dominated Pacifico Division.

The next day the group toured the huge, very busy shops at Empalme where Alco PA number DH-19 and Alco RS11 number 501 were in operation. The highlight of the trip was when these two classic Alcos powered our train, NdeM train 1 from Empalme to Benjamin Hill the next day.

The cab ride between Hermosillo and Benjamin Hill was a wonderful opportunity to take a step back in history and see how railroading was done before block signals, CTC, and the widespread use of radios.

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 Tuesday, August 11, 2026. (Using international time, that’s at 02:30 UTC on Wednesday.)

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

Friday
May 8, 2026
Southern Pacific in Southern Arizona

Tuesday
August 11, 2026
Mexico – Empalme Get-Away

Friday
September 11, 2026
European Rail and Transit Review – 2017 & 2018

Tuesday
October 13, 2026
To be announced

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