Travel Town Museum, Railroad museum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, United States

Travel Town Museum is a railroad collection in Griffith Park displaying about 43 full-scale locomotives, passenger cars, and freight equipment. The machines are spread across outdoor grounds and covered exhibition areas where you can see them up close.

In the late 1940s Charley Atkins, a Recreation and Parks employee, proposed adding a full-size steam locomotive to Griffith Park's miniature railroad. The Harbor Department offered two small locomotives that had hauled quarry stone on Santa Catalina Island. With backing from George Hjelte and William Frederickson, Atkins solicited donations from California railroads as steam was being retired. Travel Town opened on December 14, 1952, on a former World War II internment camp site; fencing followed in 1955 and exhibits were regrouped in 1965.

The museum's name comes from a 1950s children's play area, and its earliest locomotives were left open day and night for children to climb on until fencing went up in 1955. A Union Pacific dining car donated in 1954 hosted birthday parties. Since opening, film and television crews have shot railroad scenes here, from The Monkees to Columbo.

The museum occupies the northwest corner of Griffith Park, with the main exhibit hall and outdoor rolling stock on level ground. The Travel Town Railroad runs on a 16-inch gauge track for two circles around the grounds; tickets are sold on site. The 1955 fencing means the locomotives are no longer accessible day and night.

Travel Town sits near many film and television studios, so its locomotives and cars have appeared on screen since the museum opened. Scenes were shot there for The Monkees (1967), Columbo's "Identity Crisis" (1975), Knight Rider (1983) and Quantum Leap (1991), and Foreigner filmed the videos for "Cold as Ice" and "Feels Like the First Time" on the grounds in 1977.