| Model railroading enthusiasts enjoy only one thing more | | | | space makes this the largest indoor display in the |
| then showing off their pride and joy: seeing other | | | | world with two of the largest layouts in HO and N |
| prototypes and displays that they can then go back | | | | scale in the world as well. |
| home to compete with! Fortunately since showing off | | | | The Twin City Model Railroad Museum in St. Paul |
| is inherent to all of us getting a chance to see some | | | | Minneapolis features model panoramas of the 1930's, |
| truly spectacular displays is not that hard, and in many | | | | 40's and 50's and has been operating since 1984. |
| cases involves only a short journey as there are | | | | South Florida Railway Museum This museum is |
| literally hundreds of museums across the country that | | | | designed primarily to educate the public about the |
| displays tens of thousands of locomotives, cars and | | | | history of railroads in southern Florida but includes |
| scenes between them. | | | | several very nice layouts, including a large N scale and |
| Most museums do charge a fee for admittance, but it | | | | a Hon3 model. |
| normally is quite small (averaging $6) and proceeds | | | | Smokey Mountain Trains Located in Bryson City North |
| typically go towards the maintenance and upkeep of | | | | Carolina this wonderful site houses many of the |
| the models and facilities. A few sites are run by | | | | layouts once available from the Harmar Station |
| private organizations while others are run by a state or | | | | museum in Marietta, OH and is a great vacation |
| municipality but they all have one thing in common: | | | | destination for the model train enthusiast. |
| people who love trains and railroad modeling are | | | | The Museum of Science and Industry located in |
| involved! There is hardly a state in the United States | | | | Chicago Illinois also has a wonderful Model Train exhibit |
| that doesn't have at least one major museum or | | | | called The Great Train Story which boasts as having |
| showcase for the Model Railroader and all are worth | | | | a 3,500 sq. foot layout that shows the winding journey |
| visiting, but some are worth making a trip to see even | | | | from Chicago to Seattle through the Midwest, the |
| if you are only marginally interested. A partial list of | | | | Rockies, and the Cascades. |
| some of the more famous destinations that are sure | | | | The Clovis Depot Located in Clovis New Mexico in an |
| to thrill both enthusiast and family alike follow: | | | | old train station depot which has been rebuilt to its |
| The San Diego Model Railroad Museum - Partially | | | | original condition this site was registered with the |
| available 'online' the museum is a tax exempt non-profit | | | | National Register of Historic Places in 1996. |
| educational entity that was incorporated in 1980 in | | | | So crank up that old locomotive and head out to one |
| affiliation with the San Diego Model Railroad Club; the | | | | of these or any of the other hundreds of exciting |
| La Mesa Model Railroad Club; and the San Diego | | | | museums dedicated to this wonderful hobby of ours. |
| Society of N-Scale. Over 27,000 sq. ft. of display | | | | Full steam ahead - the past is waiting! |