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The Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation is built on three elements: preservation, adventures and education. Our education initiatives include Boy Scout Railroad Merit Badge classes and Urban Archeological tours. For the general public LARHF's permanent "satellites" displays are continuing sources of historical and geographical educational information. The displays consist of archival and contemporary photographs. Complementing the photos are prototypical miniature train models.
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Satellite Exhibits
The Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation is built on three elements: preservation, adventures and education. Our education initiatives include Boy Scout Railroad Merit Badge classes and Urban Archeological tours. For the general public LARHF's permanent "satellites" displays are continuing sources of historical and geographical educational information. The displays consist of archival and contemporary photographs. Complementing the photos are prototypical miniature train models.
Programs
Programs
Programs
Programs
Satellite Exhibits
The Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation is built on three elements: preservation, adventures and education. Our education initiatives include Boy Scout Railroad Merit Badge classes and Urban Archeological tours. For the general public LARHF's permanent "satellites" displays are continuing sources of historical and geographical educational information. The displays consist of archival and contemporary photographs. Complementing the photos are prototypical miniature train models.
Roger L. Titus is a noted rail-traction historian and postcard collector. He is the co-author of "Destinations," a LARHF-published title documenting the rise of Southern California through vintage postcards and their relationship to the trolley lines that fueled Southland growth. As a teenager, Roger and his father Robert rode the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway systems, photographing the systems as they were on the verge of shutdown. His collection provides a brilliant snapshot into late-1940s through late-1950s Southern California, and how trolley systems defined our way of life.
Ralph Melching (1917-2005) was a founder of the Pacific Rail Society (née Railroad Boosters) and an avid rail photographer throughout his adult life. Ralph photographed a wide variety of rail-based subjects, including the construction of Los Angeles Union Station in 1938-39, as well as the Pacific Electric Railway and main line railroads.
Ralph Melching (1917-2005) was a founder of the Pacific Rail Society (née Railroad Boosters) and an avid rail photographer throughout his adult life. Ralph photographed a wide variety of rail-based subjects, including the construction of Los Angeles Union Station in 1938-39, as well as the Pacific Electric Railway and main line railroads.
Ralph Melching (1917-2005) was a founder of the Pacific Rail Society (née Railroad Boosters) and an avid rail photographer throughout his adult life. Ralph photographed a wide variety of rail-based subjects, including the construction of Los Angeles Union Station in 1938-39, as well as the Pacific Electric Railway and main line railroads.
Ralph Melching (1917-2005) was a founder of the Pacific Rail Society (née Railroad Boosters) and an avid rail photographer throughout his adult life. Ralph photographed a wide variety of rail-based subjects, including the construction of Los Angeles Union Station in 1938-39, as well as the Pacific Electric Railway and main line railroads.
Ralph Melching (1917-2005) was a founder of the Pacific Rail Society (née Railroad Boosters) and an avid rail photographer throughout his adult life. Ralph photographed a wide variety of rail-based subjects, including the construction of Los Angeles Union Station in 1938-39, as well as the Pacific Electric Railway and main line railroads.
Ralph Melching (1917-2005) was a founder of the Pacific Rail Society (née Railroad Boosters) and an avid rail photographer throughout his adult life. Ralph photographed a wide variety of rail-based subjects, including the construction of Los Angeles Union Station in 1938-39, as well as the Pacific Electric Railway and main line railroads.
National Geographic Collection
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Support LARHF’s mission of preservation, outreach, and education
The LA Railroad Heritage Foundation memberships include (depending on Option):
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LARHF's weekly Spotlight Readings Series
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Booming online presence with social media
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Member Field Trips
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The release of our beautiful new Hollywood's Trains & Trolleys book
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Webinar Lectures
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Updates on new satellite displays throughout Southern California
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Being at the heart of the rail preservation community across Southern California
Your gifts help ensure that LARHF continues its outreach, preservation, and education programs, as well as develop new forms of media education and sharing for future generations.
Please support the Foundation by choosing a membership level below. For larger gifts, please contact us at info@larhf.org.or call our office at 626-458-4449.
Membership Options
Annual
Annual Members are given access to premier guest speakers in railroading, Southern California and Los Angeles history, rail history and more for the discounted price of $5 per lecture. Club members will also be given preferred access to all of LARHF’s public events, including our Spotlight Readings Series.
Annual Donation
$10-$20/month
for 12 months
Premiere
Supporter
Premiere Supporters of LARHF are granted continuous preferred access to LARHF’s events and lectures for no additional cost as well as access to select LARHF private events and select field trips.
Premiere Supporter Donation
$300 - $500
Benefactor
Benefactors of LARHF have access to every LARHF event, both public and private, for no additional cost. LARHF Benefactors also receive a published book (autographed by its author) and an invitation its VIP rail adventures.
Benefactor Donation
$750 - $5,000
Station Masters lead LARHF into the future with contributions that keep our current programs on track as well as growing LARHF’s new ventures.
Station Masters have every benefit of a Benefactor Member with additional recognition by name at each LARHF event and Spotlight Reading.
Station Master Donation: $5,000.00
Station
Master
Station Master Donation
$5,000 - beyond
Please consider donating appreciated securities to LARHF
You might be able to help the Foundation, and get a tax benefit.
If you have highly appreciated securities - - shares of stocks or mutual funds that have large embedded capital gains - - you may:
· Donate shares directly to LARHF
· Get credit for the value of the shares donated as a charitable donation
· Avoid the taxes associated with selling the shares and realizing large capital gains.
This is not tax advice. As always, please consult with your tax professional regarding the potential tax benefits of this or any other donation strategy.
For information on how to transfer securities to LARHF, please contact
Jared Nigro
(626) 458 4449
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