Southern California Live Steamers

Free train rides tomorrow 6-2-24 starting at 11:00AM to 3:00 PM 2290 Washington Ave Torrance Ca 90510
Riders must be at lest 32” tall, be able to walk unassisted, and have footwear on. Train crew have the right to refuse train rides to anyone and remove riders that do not follow the safety rules.

Tomorrow 5-18-24 Charlie will be giving rides behind Jim Barryman’s beautiful #2 steam locomotive. The rides are free 12:00pm to 3:00pm This is a real oil fired steam locomotive that is 3 1/2 inch to the foot scale 7 1/2” gauge. We also will be providing rides behind our scale diesel locomotives as well. The address is 2290 Washington Ave, Torrance, CA 90510

Free train rides this Sunday 5-5-24 from 11:00 Am to 3:00 Pm. This last week a few of our members performed much-needed maintenance with wood replacement and fresh paint jobs on the club house, little yellow house, and tool shed. The flowers are blooming the butterflies are flying around it’s a perfect time to take a train ride with us.

Free Train Rides
Saturday 4-20-2024
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Tomorrow is the first Sunday of the month: free train rides-11am to 3pm. We have been very busy with some challenging projects around the grounds. Tree trimming, painting the Caboose, added some new railroad displays, new pavers around the president’s garden, and we got the Crenshaw line cleared off.
The best part is when you as our guest, come out and enjoy a train ride. 

Yesterday 3-24-2024 was a productive day at SCLS. We had Parker Hancock with troop 860 preforming his Eagle Scout project. His project is to installing pavers at the Presidents garden. This will make a much improved area for the public to access on the train ride days. Members Dale Van lngen and Tom Downing volunteered to start the large project of giving the Santa Fa caboose a fresh red paint job.

Train rides today 3-16-24, 12:00pm to 3:00pm.
Riders must be at least 32” tall and able to walk on the own to ride the trains. For a enjoyable ride Its important to always follow all the safety rules when riding the trains

Tomorrow come on out for a Free train ride Sunday 3-3-24, 11:00am to 3:00pm. After your train ride take a photo with the vintage Mall train that our volunteers recently restored.

Tomorrow is the third Saturday of the month 2-17-23, that means it’s time for free train rides at SCLS 12:00 pm to 3:00pm

Because of the wet and windy weather conditions We will not be giving train rides today 2-4-2024

Do to the rain there will be no train rides today 1-20-24

Free Train Rides this Saturday 1-20-24 trains run from 12:00pm to 3:00pm.
The weather forecast currently states a 30% chance of rain in the afternoon. We will do our best to safely provide the train rides. If the weather is too wet we will be forced to stop giving rides. Tomorrow we will post here the status of the train rides

To start the new year off SCLS has free train rides Sunday January 7th 11:00am to 3:00pm. Riders must be at least 32” tall to ride the trains

The members of SCLS would like to wish you marry Christmas and a happy new year. Here’s a few photos from the holiday lights night train ride. Mark you calendar for next year’s event on Friday The 20th and Saturday the 21st of December 2024

Mr. Conductor is ready to find you a seat on one our trains tonight. Go for a train ride through many Holiday displays tonight 5:00 pm to 8:00pm, $8 per ride, tickets sold at our depot tonight. We are at the back of Wilson park at 2290 Washington Ave Torrance Ca 90510, there are lots of free parking . Notes: Tickets for this event are only sold tonight at the event no presale tickets have been sold.

This week a small team of our members has been busy setting up all the lights and displays for the Holiday night train rides. Here’s a few photos from last year. We always try to improve the displays for this event. Stop by and go for a train ride this Friday and Saturday 5:00 pm to 8:00pm.

Free train rides this Sunday 12-3-23, 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM

We are giving free train rides today 11-18-23 from 12:00 pm to 3:00pm. Riders must be at least 32” tall and able to walk unassisted to ride on the trains

Here are photos from the Halloween train ride for 2023. We have already starting preparing the new displays for the 2024 event

Free train rides today 11-5-23 starting at 11:00am and ending at 3:00pm
Riders must be at least 32” tall and able to walk on there own to ride the trains

This is our big fundraiser for the year. On Tuesday we started working on setting up the displays, today we did track and car inspections and adjustments. Tomorrow will be a long day of setup and testing. Friday day time is final setup and getting the trains ready. Friday night 5:15 is go time.
Put your costume on and come on out for a fun Halloween train ride.

This is Rorys new SD70ACe locomotive built by Titan Train’s in Virginia. Come out for a free train ride today 12:00pm to 3:00pm

We setting up the trains to give rides today 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. Come on out for a free train ride. All our crew members are highly trained unpaid volunteers. All donations are only used to help keep the trains running.

Free Train Rides Today 9-16-23 from 12:00PM to 3:00PM

SCLS is planning on having a display at this event