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Title: Miniature train in Griffith Park
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Los Angeles (Calif.).Dept. of Recreation and Parks
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Miniature trains of the Griffith Park & Southern Railroad began running May 27, 1963, in Griffith Park. Opened in time for the summer season, the train ride exhibit features a mile-long track, an exact replica of an early 20th Century railway station, a 70-foot bridge over Lizard Creek, iron gates and an 85-foot tunnel. Trains run daily from 9:30 a.m. to dusk. The trains began operation in 1948.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044428
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 257.; HE-002-639 4x5
CARL0000048801
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14628
Subject: Griffith Park & Southern Railroad
Parks--California--Los Angeles
Railroads, Miniature--California--Los Angeles
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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