Union Station will be filled with more train cars than usual this weekend as the Union Station Train Festival takes over downtown L.A.'s iconic transportation landmark. The biannual event is also back after a one year break.

Climb aboard history

Attendees will get a chance to check out several rail cars of decades past on station tracks 13, 14 and 15.

“We have the Tioga Pass, which is a 1959 car that was a business car through Canada. We have the National Forum, which was from 1956, a Pullman car, and then the star of the show is a Santa Fe 3751,” said Susie Vance, director of marketing at Union Station.

The classic Santa Fe 3751 is the 1927 steam locomotive that pulled the very first passenger train into Union Station back in 1939. There will also be equipment displays from Amtrak

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