Have been several times over the last 4 years, our grandson loves the childrens playroom. We love visiting when Amtrak stops from San Antonio. The passengers get off and chat about their origins. It is great!!
Interesting displays about the local train history. There are displays of different kinds of trains. Christmas brings a train display with a Christmas town that everyone loves. They have kids activities and computer games. There are two locomotives for the kids to play on.
If you love Railroad history, then this museum is great. It is small, but not expensive. Lots of little interesting facts and artifacts. They are building a model railroad in one room and I think that will be a great addition. My kids enjoyed it, but ran through quickly. Probably better for older kids or younger kids really into trains.
What a great train museum! There was plenty to see and do for young and old. 2nd floor of museum has LOTS of memorabilia from the Santa Fe plus other train items. Interesting historical readings. Look outside the back windows for a good view of the trains & tracks. For young kids, there's a play room with train toys. Outside there is a couple of old trains you can get up close to that are fenced in safely from the working track area. Our kids enjoyed walking the tracks, climbing aboard the engine car, and pulling a rope to make the bell ring! During our 1.5 hr visit, there were 3 trains that passed by, and all blew their horns and waved - fun! This place is an Amtrack stop, so we got to watch the passengers exit and enter the train, and the conductor yell "Aaalll Abooard!" as they were about to depart. Great show for the kids. The gift shop is chocked FULL of train gadgets, shirts, games, pins, cards, Thomas, toys...great place to get a gift for train lovers or bday party gift. Staff was friendly. Glad we stopped while travelling through town. Accessible, and free parking directly in front of museum.
Love this museum, inside and out ... also, a first class library of books, photos, all kinds of railroading memorabilia ... and occasional group trips.
I learned a lot about Temple's history and Scott and White's start with the Santa Fe Railroad. Play room for little kids.
Not just an active Amtrak station but also a museum with several engines and passenger cars outside and a great museum on the second floor. My Dad and I had time to kill after his appointment at the VA clinic so we thought what the heck! Lots of live freight train traffic passing thru too!
This is a good stop off point between Austin and Dallas. The museum was the second floor of the old station which is neat. They had a bunch of model trains behind glass which were neat and some other memorabilia of all kinds. The static displays were all locked (except the engine) and are starting to get run down. The engine however was open and you could pull levers, etc.I would recommend the train museum in Galveston (even after all of the hurricane damage from a few years ago) over this one, but if you need a 30-45 minute pitstop, don't hesitate to stop here.
Beautiful old train station still functioning. Have attended many wonderful events here. Museum small but very interesting.
I have been to numerous wedding receptions and dinner parties at the old station....but never knew it house a museum as well. I rather enjoyed the tour the first time I went through it. I've lived in Temple my whole life and just this past January got to have the FULL experience.