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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.

Model Train Exhibit

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.

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