Never stop learning

The Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation was founded to convey information to those around us: sharing our great rail-based legacy with Southern California and the world.

LARHF presents lecture series and other events designed to disseminate vital, historic information to the widest possible audience.

Click on the links below to view slideshows of recent educational events:

LARHF also produces books and other materials designed to help communicate our rail-based heritage to the world. Our latest release, DESTINATIONS by Roger L. Titus and Jim Bunte, can be found here.

We hope you will join us for future adventures, which you can learn about first on our News page.

Depots of Los Angeles:
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LARHF's Josef Lesser will present a forty-minute PowerPoint presentation tracing the history of Los Angeles passenger terminals beginning with the first railroad station to be constructed in the city in 1869 by the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad Company.

Social Vocational Services:
The Foundation acted as tour guide to a group of developmentally disabled adults as they toured Union Station and the MTA Headquarters in Los Angeles .

A Morning with the METRO Red Line and an Afternoon with the Los Angeles Railway:
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A Visit to the Famous Argentine Yard and the Headquarters of the Kansas City Southern:
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A Morning with Metrolink and an Afternoon with the Pacific Electric:
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