- Last Updated on Friday, 29 November 2019 14:46
The doors of the Mid-Mon Valley Model Railroad Club will be opened to the public again this Holiday season. The club will be open on weekends from November 30 through January 5, 2020.
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Visitors will be received each Saturday and Sunday from noon until 5:00 p.m. The club is located on the second floor of 159 Main Street in New Eagle (above the New Eagle Borough Municipal Building). There is a rumor that Santa Claus will be at the club on Saturday December 7 and Saturday December 14!
The club is working to depict the major industries in the Mid-Mon Valley as they interacted with the railroads. Visitors can walk through three rooms of scenery as the trains run on a double-decked layout and use the helix (spiral) in a fourth room to travel from the lower level to the upper level and back again. Along the way, one can see a blast furnace, a rolling mill, a strip-mine, coke ovens, a railroad yard and a trolley line.
Although there is no admission fee, visitors are encouraged to donate to the layout fund in the caboose-shaped box located at the top of the stairs. Suggested donation levels are at least $1.00 per person. Coloring pages and publications about the hobby are available free of charge to children of all ages.
Seeing model trains at the Holidays is a wonderful tradition. Make New Eagle a stop on your Holiday tour. For further information, call S. Werner at 724-379-8584.
