On our vacation, we went to see trains....

I took this information from the One-Tank Trip Blog! This is a super cool place that we visited on our vacation. Conner loved standing on his stool and watching the trains in the huge display. He also loved riding on "Thomas" and riding the "Silver Streak" train, which was a pedal train that one propelled with his hands. Conner tired out quickly on that and was assisted the rest of the way by a helpful staff member with a "pushing stick". The Children's section on this was amazing and Conner would have stayed there for a really long time just playing with the train legos and the train table. He didn't get to play on the playground, because he wasn't wearing socks, so don't forget the socks.
EnterTRAINment Junction is the brainchild of Don Oeters, a model train hobbyist, who, after a successful business career, has turned his energies toward creating a train-themed tourist destination in this Cincinnati Suburb.

What was once a huge furniture warehouse has been converted into a Disney-like structure that features several train-related attractions under one roof.

As you enter the building you find yourself in a replica of a small-town American village of the 1890’s. Old-fashioned street lights line a cobblestone street that leads to a train station. The street is lined by stores that offer train-related hobby material and food, all disguised with facades from another era.

The main attraction is the exhibition hall where the massive model train display is running. For starters the trains are all “G” Gauge, sometimes known as “Garden Trains”. Each car is about the size of a loaf of bread and the scenery, buildings, cars, trees and people are all modeled in the same scale. The display covers 25 thousand square feet which means it’s nearly the size of five NBA Basketball Courts.

There are winding aisles that wander back and forth across the display tracing the nearly two miles of tiny railroad tracks that wend their way through man-made mountains, tunnels, past rivers and lakes and beside a towering 11 foot tall waterfall. At any given time there are over 1,200 railroad cars making up some 90 trains that are running, circling the display, crossing bridges and trestles, passing through tunnels and whistling through small villages. The trains can be seen mostly at a waist-high level but they also soar up to 11 feet above the walkway in some of the mountain exhibits.