For a schedule of our regular hours, please click on Live-Steam Train Rides.  We are open most weekends April-December.

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Please check back for additional special events that may be planned for this year.

2009 NORTH POLE EXPRESS
Fridays: Nov. 27, Dec. 4, 11, 18, & 25; 6pm-9pm
Saturdays: Nov. 28, Dec. 5, 12, 19, & 26; 5pm-9pm
Sundays: Nov. 29, Dec. 6, 13, 20, & 27; 5pm-8pm
Admission: Purchase a train ride ticket or give a donation.
Train rides are $2 for adults and $1 for children.
Santa Claus will be here Friday, November 27th, from 6pm-8pm. Bring your camera!

This is our most popular, feel-good-all-over, family event. Bring everyone out to take a magical little train ride around our track decorated with sparkling lights and holiday decorations. Warm up inside our museum between rides (oh, yes, the kids will want to ride more than once, and at $1 per ride you can afford it) with reasonably priced hot chocolate, fresh-popped popcorn, made to order hamburgers, or hot dogs. See faces light up as they watch holiday-themed toy/model train layouts go 'round and 'round. Take a stroll down rows of beautifully decorated Christmas trees. And do some shopping in our railroad gift shop stocked with items for big and little train enthusiasts. (Visa and MasterCard now accepted.) Remember that our coaches are open sided, so please dress warmly with hats, scarves, and mittens.

Northwest Ohio Railroad Preservation, Inc., located at 11600 County Rd. 99 in Findlay, is easy to find between N. Main St. and I-75 Exit #161 (northeast corner of interchange), just west of Reineke Ford (formerly Findlay Ford). Call 419-423-2995 if you have questions.

FISH FRY FUNDRAISER
Saturday, December 5th, 2009 from 5pm-7pm
$7 adults, $5 children 10 and younger
Serving delicious fish and two sides. Also enjoy the North Pole Express running that same evening. Train ride tickets only $2 adults and $1 children

2010 FLAG CITY TRAIN SHOW
March 21, 2010, 10am-4pm (Sunday)

MODEL TRAINS, TOY TRAINS, RAILROAD MEMORABILIA FOR SALE Admission: $3 for adults. Children 12 & under are free with adult. (NOTE: Must pay admission in order to ride train at this event.) Food service available, free parking, handicap accessible This will be OPENING DAY for our quarter-scale steam train rides - just $1 per passenger, all ages. Also enjoy operating layouts of HO and Lionel trains, antique Erector sets, as well as other exhibits.

Northwest Ohio Railroad Preservation, Inc., located at 11600 County Rd. 99 in Findlay, is easy to find at the northeast corner of I-75 Exit #161, just west of Reineke Ford. NWORRP is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation established for the preservation, promotion, and education of local railroad history. All proceeds from the event will be used toward completion of our railroad museum and the restoration of the relocated Hatton depot.

Attention: Sellers/Dealers - If you are interested in renting tables at our show, please click here for a form to print.

2010 TRACKS TO THE PAST
September 11 & 12, 2010 - Saturday 9am-7pm and Sunday 10am-5pm
Admission:  $2 adults and $1 children 12 and younger
Train rides:  $1 all ages
(NOTE:  Must pay admission in order to ride train at this event.)

On September 11 & 12, Northwest Ohio Railroad Preservation will host its 8th annual TRACKS TO THE PAST antique power show and fall festival. In addition to train rides powered by their quarter-scale coal-burning steam Engine 901, there will be exhibits of gas engines, tractors, and steam traction engines; tours of a 1920s era B&O caboose; operating layouts of HO model trains and Lionel toy trains; demonstrations of shingle cutting, blacksmithing, and sawmill operations; antique cars, military vehicles, and fire trucks; calliope organs and hammered dulcimers; woodcarvings, including demonstrations by the Millstream Woodcarvers; military re-enactors; small flea market; and more! There will be a kids’ play area with a big sand pile and the Elmwood FFA will hold a Kiddie Tractor Pull Sunday at 1:00pm. Take a ride in a little buggy pulled by miniature horses. The Sunlight Alpaca Farm will show some of their lovable alpacas. Wind Beneath My Wings will display their Birds of Prey exhibit.

At the food tent, volunteers will be serving hamburgers, hotdogs, shredded chicken sandwiches, chips, and drinks. The Lugibihls will be serving their homemade ice cream.

An all-u-can-eat breakfast of pancakes and sausage will be served from 7am-9am Saturday and Sunday. Breakfast is $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and younger.

The show runs 9am-dark on Saturday; 10am-5pm on Sunday. Daily admission to the show is $2 for adults and $1 for children 12 and younger. Train rides are $1 for all ages. A donation is requested for miniature horse and buggy rides. And a donation to the Elmwood FFA is requested for participation in the Kiddie Tractor Pull. Parking is free. Northwest Ohio Railroad Preservation, Inc., located at 11600 County Rd. 99 in Findlay, is easy to find at the northeast corner of I-75 Exit #161, just west of Reineke Ford (formerly Findlay Ford).

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Photos from our 2004 Flag City Train Show: