Train Ride to Visit Santa at Travel Town Museum

For the 6th year in a row, Travel Town Train Museum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California will host a unique holiday event starting November 29, 2008. On fifteen evenings between Thanksgiving and Christmas, families will be able to take a miniature train ride to visit Santa at his house at the North Pole. Once they arrive they will visit with Santa, get a picture with him, if desired, then get back on the train to return home along a decorated and music filled track.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 14, 2008 -- For the 6th year in a row, Travel Town Train Museum in Griffith Park will host a unique holiday event starting November 29, 2008. On fifteen evenings between Thanksgiving and Christmas, families will be able to take a miniature train ride to visit Santa at his house at the North Pole. Once they arrive they will visit with Santa, get a picture with him, if desired, then get back on the train to return home along a decorated and music filled track.

This event is operated by Travel Town Railroad in cooperation with the City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks. It is a wonderful alternative to visiting Santa at the mall and is a perfect addition to a Holiday Evening in Griffith Park before or after the Department of Water and Power's spectacular Festival of Lights.

We are selling tickets by reservation this year as well as at the gate, if seating is available. Reserved tickets may be purchased at the Travel Town ticket booth or online at www.TravelTownRailroad.com. Buy your tickets early to assure that you can have a seat on this special train ride.

Starting at 5 p.m. on the evenings detailed below, families may enter the Museum and board the miniature train ride at the gaily decorated station. While waiting to board they will be entertained by a dazzling dancing light show. Once aboard, they will travel past the locomotive barn and Santa's Workshop to arrive at the North Pole. There they will disembark and visit with Santa. Digital photographs will be available for $5.00. Families may take their own pictures if they wish. After they have finished their visit, guests will re-board the train and travel along the decorated ¼ mile of track back to the station. The Travel Town Museum Gift Shop will be open most evenings.

The event details are:

Dates:        November 29 and 30: December 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 and 17th through 23rd

        Weather permitting, we cannot operate in the rain.

Times:    5:00 p.m. until about 8:00 p.m. Pre-purchase of tickets is suggested because we will close the ride when we reach capacity.

Where:    Travel Town Transportation Museum

        5200 Zoo Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90027

        (323) 662-9678

Cost:        $7.00 per person. Infants under 18 months free

        Photographs with Santa are $5.00

Contact:

Don Gustavson

(818) 881-2586

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