Durham Museum 2018

We also went to The Durham Museum this weekend which is a train museum in downtown Omaha. After Amtrak was created, Union Pacific Railroad closed its Union Station in Omaha, but the station was preserved as it was for a museum.

Outside the museum

Checking the schedules or mugging someone

The Benson trolley

James is going to drive the trolley

Can't be worse than me driving a car

Miranda's turn!

Getting on the Union Pacific train

 

Inside the train

 

Fancy part of the train

Kevin found the bar cart

Toy train village

Omaha tribe tipi

James likes it

Miranda disappears inside

Love the buffalos!

New York Transit Museum 2015

On Saturday we went to the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn because everyone says it's a kid-favorite. It was pretty reasonably priced, and it was very kid friendly in that there was a lot of space where kids could run around and there were multiple buses and subways to play on so that sharing was not a huge issue.

Don't let the pigeon drive the bus!

Now boarding!

Kevin teaching him to pump gas!

The concept is pretty cool: the entire museum is housed inside an old subway stop. Be warned though, there's no coat check so if show up with ten million layers you'll be stuck carrying them. You also don't want to deal with stroller on the subway steps.

So many model trains!

Wrong lesson here.

Outside an old subway train.

Inside an old-timey subway train.

Going for a pretend ride underground.