Home for the Holidays
Take a nostalgic glimpse at 100 years of holiday rail travel. Meet costumed railroaders and enjoy seasonal music and festive decorations among our world-class collection of trains.
And Our Popular Event
Polar Expess Party
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Saturday, December 6 & Saturday, December 13, 2008.
2007 Program
2008 Program Coming Soon
A Great Museum Tradition!
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Activities:
- Children may send a telegraphic message to Santa or visit him in Steinman Station passenger depot. Bring your camera to take pictures!
- Costumed interpreters: engineers, conductors, ticket agents, and railroad passengers from our nation's past.
- The Elite Brass Quintet is slated to perform. The Brass Ornaments duo is scheduled to perform
- Enjoy our current exhibit in the Museum’s second floor gallery
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- Cookies and hot chocolate will be offered in the Museum lobby
- Polar Express Party. Preregistration required. Details.
- Exciting hands-on activities in Stewart Junction railway education center for the young and the young at heart.
- Ride the Museum's new Cab Simulator.
- Ride nearby Strasburg Rail Road trains, including Santa's Paradise Express.
- Visit the National Toy Train Museum.
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 The first 25 paid visitors to each day of Home for the Holidays will receive a Dandycane ornament, courtesy of Boyds Bears. One per family, please. Special value coupons for Merenda Zug coffee shop, the Iron Horse Inn and Isaac’s Deli will be available for Museum visitors who wish to dine in Strasburg at these great locations.
 With its daily hustle and bustle, the arrival and departure of family, friends, fast passenger trains and slow freights, the country depot became the hub of rural life and holiday travel during railroading's golden age. At the turn of the 20th century, there were more than 500 railroad stations along passenger routes in Pennsylvania. The Railroad Museum's Steinman Station, a permanent exhibit, represents a typical early 20th century passenger station with its waiting room, ticket office and freight room. Amtrak officials estimate that, in today's mobile, global society, more than 1.2 million Americans annually still choose to travel "home for the holidays" by train...and that number is increasing.
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