The birthplace of the Big Boy Steam Dream
 

Special Events

RailGiants Train Museum Hours

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.

Los Angeles County Fair

The Fair is held for 17 days, begins on Thursday, May 7, 2026, and concluding 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.

Rail Meetings

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.

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 – Rail Meeting 7:30pm

On Zoom

We moved our Rail Meetings to the internet. See access information below.

Belgium – The last Days of the Vicinaux
Presented by Harvey Laner

In November 1990 and again in June 1991, Harvey Laner visited the heart of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium along with Flanders and the Brussels Capitol Region in search of the last remnants of the once expansive Belgium Vicinaux, the legendary rural tramway system.
 
Construction of Belgium’s rural tramways started in 1875, with the creation of a nationwide operator. Its lines were generally called ‘Vicinaux’, the French word for country link. It was reminiscent of the interurbans that connected towns and cities in the US and Canada in the first half of the twentieth century.
 
The fully narrated program covers the sole remaining portion of the former Vicinaux line 90 that was still operating on track and alignment that had not been replaced with PreMetro infrastructure. Particular emphasis is placed on the portion of the line west of Anderlues to La Louvière, via Binche.
 
The sight of trams racing across the rural Belgium countryside, through quaint villages and on side-of-the-road operation captures the essence of what was the ubiquitous country tram system, in the last days of the Vicinaux.
 

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 Standard Time).
  • Our meeting begins at 7:30 pm, on Tuesday, February 10, 2026. (Using international time, that’s at 03:30 UTC on Wednesday.)

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

Future Monthly Meeting Dates and Topics

Tuesday
February 10, 2026
Belgium – The last Days of the Vicinaux