Training it Up at Travel Town

As part of our mini-vacation in Southern California, our friend Michael and his son Matthew took us to the Travel Town Train Museum in Los Angeles. Considering our boys obsession with trains this was a good bet for a Sunday morning.

The Travel Town Museum is smaller then the California Train Museum in Sacramento, but still has a satisfactory amount of old trains to explore. The museum has fifty or so locomotives and train cars, and is mostly outdoors.

The boys liked exploring the trains they were allowed to climb aboard. And, of course, Caleb gravitated toward the train table located in the roundhouse (not a classic round house, but a large building holding several trains).

The only comment I would have about the carpeted train table area is that they should have considered their audience more when planning it. There were too many off limits/do not signs ... Seriously, a train table will encourage preschoolers ... everything in the small carpeted area should be hands on.

There was also two model train rooms behind glass for the kids to view. This was also a favorite of Caleb.

Travel Town also has a miniature railroad with a cute diesel engine -- not as cool as a steam engine ala Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad -- but definitely fun.