Get in the seasonal spirit by visiting some of Cincinnati’s holiday model train displays.
Holiday Junction at the Cincinnati Museum Center
The Cincinnati Museum Center's Holiday Junction returns Nov. 12. The CMC says this will be their 75th year hosting the exhibit.
They say visitors can find everything from LEGO builds “featuring whimsical scenes and characters from your favorite books and movies” to historic trains, to scavenger hunts at their winter wonderland. Of course, Santa will be there getting his sleigh ready and feeding his reindeer.
There will also be a touchless interactive history book that “features historic photos and stories of the trains over the decades,” going back to the start of the miniature locomotives exhibit at the CMC in 1946.
“Year after year, decade after decade, generation after generation, the (Holiday Junction featuring the) Duke Energy Holiday Trains have delighted families during the holidays,” said Elizabeth Pierce, CMC president and CEO, in a release. “Some people will fall in love with the trains for the first time this year, others for the 75th time, but for everyone we are delighted to once again stoke the fires and send this beloved holiday tradition along their 1,000 feet of track for past and present generations alike.”
Find more information about Holiday Junction, visit cincymuseum.org.
Holiday Toy Trains at the Behringer-Crawford Museum
Starting Nov. 13, you can see miniature trains travel along 250 feet of track at the Behringer-Crawford Museum in Covington. The event will run through Jan. 9 and features the museum’s Holiday Toy Trains.
They say the eight trains will travel through 30 miniature displays of “cities, farms and snow-covered fields.” Visitors will be able to interact with the O-gauge Lionel model trains by activating landmarks including “a bus station, fast food restaurant, drive-through car wash and a firehouse with a firefighter sliding down a pole, plus an animated carnival with whirling rides and sideshow barkers.”
Museum officials say they will display builds from the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana LEGO User’s Group, “a nonprofit organization dedicated to collecting and constructing sculptures, buildings, creatures and other imaginative items with the tiny, multicolored plastic bricks.” There will also be an interactive LEGO area where kids can create their own plastic brick masterpieces.
Find information about hours and tickets, visit bcmuseum.org.
Christmas at Entertrainment Junction
Visit Entertrainment Junction — home of the "World’s Largest Indoor Train Display" — for some train-based entertainment, as well as holiday cheer. They say visitors will “enter a 1950s street scene with nostalgic department store display windows and venture through the incredible winter wonderland.”
Junction officials say there will be reindeer stables and elves making toys at their North Pole. Mrs. Claus will be in her kitchen baking away and Santa will hopefully be able to visit with kids in person this year.
The event runs Nov. 13-Jan. 2, 2022. Learn more at entertrainmentjunction.com.
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