Event date: Saturday and Sunday, January
15 and 16, 2011
Event
place:
Redlands,
CA
All Aboard! Train Days at the
County
Museum
If you like trains, this is the weekend to come to the museum! Railroad
fans are invited to visit the San
Bernardino County Museum from 9am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday, January 15 and 16, for
“Train Days.”
The museum will be filled with large and small model train layouts, real
railroad artifacts, and activities for the whole family. The
Pacific
Coast Modular Club, Orange County Modular Railroaders, Antelope
Valley N-Scalers, and Southern California Traction Club will install huge
layouts with running trains, beautiful scenery, and miniature buildings. Other
models will include a traveling circus, a monorail, trolleys, and an American
Flyer train.
“Visit the circus, operate a
little locomotive, and design a logo for your own train!” said museum educator
Nancy Kirkwood. “Folks will also enjoy seeing historic and recent railroad
artifacts, including tools, train lanterns, and switch stands. We will have real
train engineers and railroad workers for visitors to talk to as
well.”
Families can play “The Train Game” and learn about train signals, and can
create their own paper locomotive and train logo to take home.
Visitors will also see the restoration progress being
made on the museum’s Southern Pacific locomotive 2825 and AT & SF caboose
1333 in the courtyard.
The
San
Bernardino County
Museum is at the
California
Street exit from Interstate 10 in
Redlands. The museum is open Tuesdays through Sundays and
holiday Mondays from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. Admission
is $8 (adult), $6 (senior or military), $5 (student), $4 (child aged 5 to 12),
and children under five and Museum Association members are admitted free. Parking
is free. Food will be available from 9am to 5pm. For more information, visit
www.sbcountymuseum.org.
The museum is accessible to persons with disabilities. If assistive
listening devices or other auxiliary aids are needed in order to participate in
museum exhibits or programs, requests should be made through Museum Visitor
Services at least three business days prior to your visit. Visitor Services’
telephone number is (909) 307-2669 ext. 229 or TDD (909)
792-1462.
