School Outings
The perfect educational venue for all age groups.
One of the missions of EnterTRAINment Junction is to educate and entertain people on the importance of railroads throughout history. The Junction was designed with school groups in mind and is the perfect venue for learning in a fun environment!
EnterTRAINment Junction features the Train Journey, the American Railroading Museum, the Great Train Expo, and Imagination Junction.
Train Journey
Travel through three distinct time periodsof U.S. history captured in a 25,000 square foot model railroad display.
Railroads had an incredible effect on the world in every way from transportation and engineering through industry and economics. Our journey begins in the 1860’s with the earliest days of steam engine railroading. Different pieces of American history such as mining, logging, family farming and the Civil War are represented. The next areayou enter into is the Middle Period focusing on the 1940’s and 1950’s. This takes you back to the days of street cars, trolleys, the transition from steam trains to diesel trains and interurban lines. Finally, we reach the Modern Period representing the 1970’s to the present. Here you can focuson subways, advanced locomotives and more modern forms of transportation.
Our G-scale train layout is the largest interactive indoor layout in the world and features over two miles of track, 90 locomotives and more than1500 cars. Train tracks surround the visitor at heights of 2’ to 11’. Carefully hand-crafted cities, towns, working saw mills, factories, forests, bridges, mountains, valleys, trestles, tunnels, trolley cars, subway trains and a state-of the-art sound and light display add a dimension of wonder to the entire experience. While traveling through the layout you will appreciate the 70,000 hours of hard work and labor that volunteers have put into crafting and perfecting the Train Journey.
The American Railroading Museum
An imaginative, interactive display and theater that depicts the fascinating story of the growth, history and development of the United States. Much of the focus is the large partthat the railroading industry played in connecting the United States and modernizing transportation over the years. Throughout the museum, you can enjoy facts, pictures allwhile enhancing your knowledge of early transportation and appreciating how far traintechnology has come. Actual train equipment and implements are displayed and railroad folklore is revealed with exhibits, interactive trivia kiosks and video theater.
The Coney Island Amusem*nt Park Display (Cincinnati, OH)
Up on the mezzanine is a 1/24 scale replica of Coney Island just as it was in 1965. There is a fully functioningShooting Star roller coaster, merry-go-round, ferris wheel, tumble bug, rocket ship, Wild Mouse, haunted house, Lost River, sky ride and much more. You have to see it to believe it!
The Great Train Expo
Housing artifacts and collectibles including Neil Young’s Touring O-Gauge Display, the Volunteer Workshop, a replica of the Mt. Adams Incline and other rotating train exhibits. Plus visit the Cincinnati Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society library with railroading history books, videos and magazines.
A-Maze-N FunHouse
Enjoy our A-Maze-N Funhouse that includes, Curtain Chaos, Clown College, Outer Limits (Journey to the Black Hole), the Mirror Maze and Crazy Caper which will challengethe senses of children (as well as adults) in a world of dramatic scenic design, sensory elements and theatrical lighting.
Special pricing for groups of 25 and up!
There are also special weeks for Home Schoolers!
For more information, a curriculum packet, or to book your field trip call Daniel at 513-676-0077 or contact us online now.
Did you know?
Our highest mountain on display is over 16 feet tall.
Our Train Journey uses 1,968 gallons of scenic colored dirt and grasses costing over $26,000
Our mountains are carved out of 58,000 square feet of spray foam!
We have over 2 miles of G track with 1 mile hidden inside mountains.
There are over 100 scratch built bridges and trestles modeled after real-life structures.
Over 130 talented craftsmen volunteered over 200,000 man-hours to create our display.
EnterTRAINment Junction was conceived in 2003, train construction began in June of 2007 and opened for business in August of 2008.
The entire display is built to be historically accurate showing railroads in 3 distinct time periods.
Opening for business in August 2008, we’ve continuously added more to layouts each month.
Over 1,800 gallons of water is used with 3 storage tanks for waterfalls and rivers.
The control panels that operate each track have over 20,000 solder joints with 8,000 lines of programming to operate multiple trains on the same track.
The walkway through our exhibit is 850 feet long.
Our train display is 25,000 sq. ft. – about ½ of a football field.
Each tunnel leads you into a new time period through your journey.
Our scale is ½” = 1 ft. So, a 6 ft person in life is modeled as a 3” person in our display.
We have hidden 10 dinosaurs in our display – can you find them all?
All of our volunteers leave a personal touch on the items they work on – you can even see a photo of some in their buildings!
The seats in our museum are from Dayton train station from 1900.
We’ve had visitors from all 50 states and 37 countries!
We recently added a Bates Motel to our display – have you spotted it yet?
The tilt in our tilt room is 25 degrees.
During construction, we had to dig into the ground to build the Ames Room.
When you take a picture with flash on a camera of the steamboat, you’ll hear thunder after like it was a flash of lightning.
During your journey, we simulate night and day with 15 minutes of daytime followed by 5 minutes of night.
The switchback line has 2 trains. The one going up the hill has no logs and the train going downhill are fully loaded with logs.
The Coney Island amusem*nt park display is a replica of Cincinnati’s Coney Island as it looked in 1965 – complete with working rides.
