L.A. Live Steamers Ghost Train
Haunted Halloween Ride
Griffith Park’s Live Steamers
5202 Zoo Drive – Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone: (323) 662-8030
E-Mail: info@lals.org
Website: www.lals.org
Are you a parent looking for a haunted event to enjoy with your children for Halloween in Los Angeles? Then Ghost Train is for you!
2009 GHOST TRAIN DATES: October 16-18, 23-25, 29-31
GHOST TRAIN HOURS: 7:00 to 10:00pm nightly.
GHOST TRAIN TICKETS: $5 suggested donation
GHOST TRAIN PARKING: Free
GHOST TRAIN PARKING PROBLEM: Not so much problem as confusion. The official address for Travel Town is 5202 Zoo Drive, but the entrance gate for this address is closed at night. The Ghost Train’s dirt parking lot is perhaps a quarter mile east. This is a dark road in the middle of Gritth Park with few cross streets and almost no street lights, but you will see the lights, artificial fog, and customers when you reach the miniature train area.
GHOST TRAIN HISTORY: The Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum has been presenting their “Ghost Train” for Halloween since 2001. Supported by train enthusiasts, the non-profit corporation runs their 7 1/2-inch gauge model trains free of charge every Sunday. For Halloween, the path is decorated with a series 30 elaborately spooky scenes.
Copyright 2008 Steve Biodrowski
GHOST TRAIN INFORMATION: The ride is ideal for child-sized riders, but adults can manage if they do not mind squatting down on the tiny trains for the approximately 20-minute duration.
GHOST TRAIN SCARE FACTOR: Is it scary? Not really. The Ghost Train is more spooky. In a way, it’s like driving past a series of well decorated Halloween yard haunts, with lots of colorful lights, Jack O’Lanterns, skeletons, giant spiders, and other displays. Nothing jumps out at you. Most of the figures are mannequins; a few have some kind of mechanics to make them pop up.
GHOST TRAIN BOTTOM LINE: For parents with eager trick-or-treaters who might be scared by more intense Halloween attractions, this is the place to go.
