The Crystal Springs & Cahuenga Valley Railway was, I believe, a fictional railroad made up by the Travel Town folk in Los Angeles. Back in the 1990s and early 2000s they ran a caboose train on the... (more)
No, they won't MU with each other... in fact, I don't think the Model 40 can MU with anything, and the RS12, if I'm right, can only MU with another Baldwin... but still they are the two operationa... (more)
On the first Sunday of every month, Travel Town used to run this caboose train under the auspices of the Crystal Springs & Cahuenga Valley, making for a Brigadoon like railroad, and bringing the s... (more)
Travel Town's EMD Model 40 sits in front of the museum's newest acquisition, American Crane Model 508cd, serial 1887. Built in 1943 for the war department. The crane, which had worked with this ve... (more)
Named Charley Atkins after the founder of Travel Town, #1 is a rare EMD Model 40 (only 11 were built) This one started life with the US Navy in 1942, serving at Goat Island, RI and San Diego, CA, ... (more)
