B&O railroad museum. Magical Holiday Express. Christmas. Музей железной дороги в Америке.

Where: Baltimore, MD; Ellicott City Station.
When: November 21 – January 3.
Admission: $18 for Adults, $16 for Seniors (60+), $12 for children (2-12). Train Rides tickets are $3 for adults, $2 for children with paid admission. For membership benefits, click here. Free parking.

We had a great weekend in Baltimore railroad museum. They have a lot of activities and events for kids before Christmas.

All weekends filled by children activities. 

These events are included in admission, but in any case it's expensive for whole family (about 70$ for 2 adults and 2 kids with train ride), so, you have to find discount coupon online and bring it to cashier before you purchase tickets.   I absolutely forgot about this opportunity, and I had to buy the annual subscription for a family (it is more than $ 30). You can do this in the day of visiting the exhibition.  

We enjoyed Frosty Fest weekend where includes:
- special guests:
photos and  visits with Frosty and Santa;
Train Rides with Frosty the Snowman & Santa. With paid admission, train rides are $3 for adults, $2 for children and FREE for B&O Members. Train rides do not need to be purchased in advance.;

Live Musical Performances (it was The Dan Meyer Choir (1:15pm)). It was good several songs with Christmas term.

 My favourite part of museum became Baltimore Area American Flyer Club. People come with own collections of train and show it everybody. You can see it but you can't buy or play with it. During the Christmas meetings, exhibitions change several times. The train's owners very friendly and love to talk with everybody about their collections.

The museum provide also Holiday Kid Zone Workshop (craft) where With the help of Santa's elves, kids can make and decorate a holiday card with 3-D action. In this part of the museum was a few child, so the drawing area for children was closed early. But they left a paper and pencils for the children and it was possible to write a letter to Santa Claus and send it by mail.

Also the museum has play area with wood train and railroads. It's free and without the crowds.

Every weekend Story & Activity times are held in the reading area of the Choo Choo Blue Kid Zone and give children a chance to hear a classic railroad story and participate in an interactive educational activity. With Choo Choo Blue the museum offers activities for kids all ages.

Indoor carousel ride work every day, but you have to pay for it extra 2$, unlimited rides are 5$/day. 

They have a small cafe inside the museum, but food is not ok, you have to bring lunch by yourself.

Outside there is a small playground for children, where they can run and play with other kids. In the middle of the site there is a huge box with a railroad trains and city's imitation. 

Some days museum offers Breakfast Buffet & Train Ride with cartoon's characters, but these events are not include in the admission. Space is limited, advance prepaid reservations required because tickets sell out very fast.
The museum also offers photo with Santa Claus. It's empty place and without crowd.

And of course, collections of 19th- and 20th-century artifacts related to America's railroads. The collection includes 250 pieces of railroad rolling stock, 15,000 artifacts, four significant 19th-century buildings, including the historic roundhouse, and a mile of track, considered the most historic mile of railroad track in the United States.

We spent about four hours in the museum, and it was enough to see the whole show, and play with the children. Beware about the hours - the museum is open until 4, but the everything but the main building (roundhouse) actually closes at 3:30.

Amazing display of trains and history. We would come back again!

Happy holidays!