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Have you ever seen a CN rail police vehicle? Come discover this and many more machines, trucks, and trains at our Touch a Truck, Touch a Train event, here at the Elgin County Railway Museum, on May 27th from 10-3. Only 16 more days to go!

Here comes Thomas! Start planning your summer family fun! Day Out With Thomas - THE FRIENDSHIP TOUR 2017 will be in St. Thomas, Ontario July 15, 16 & 21-23! For tickets and info click: http://www.ticketweb.ca/venue/st-thomas-elgin-memorial-centre-st-thomas-on/24955?pl=thomas16&REFID=ecrmfb Event Details: Hosted annually by the Elgin County Railway Museum, at the St. Thomas-Elgin Memorial Centre (80 Wilson Ave.) for more than 12 years! • Tickets are $25 + hst per person (age 2 and up) and include; • A 25-minute ride led by Thomas the Tank Engine! • Meeting Sir Topham Hatt, Controller of the Railway • A Thomas & Friends Imagination Station; featuring temporary tattoos, hands-on arts & crafts, play dough, train play tables, and coloring. • Storytelling, video viewing, live children’s entertainment featuring music, magic & puppet shows • Bubbles, Misty Island cool mist tents, creatures and small animals, inflatable bouncers, model railway displays, and more! • On-site accessible parking, and FREE parking lot adjacent to event site • Event tickets also include free admission to the Elgin County Railway Museum located at 225 Wellington Street.

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Counting down to our Touch a Truck, Touch a Train event here at the Elgin County Railway Museum. Only 18 more days until May 27th! With many machines to discover - including this massive Heavy Tow Truck provided by Loveday's Towing - it will be a fun day out for the whole family!

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Start planning your summer family fun! Day Out With Thomas - THE FRIENDSHIP TOUR 2017 will be in St. Thomas, Ontario July 15, 16 & 21-23! For tickets and info click: http://www.ticketweb.ca/…/st-thomas-elgin-memorial-c…/24955… Event Details: Hosted annually by the Elgin County Railway Museum, at the St. Thomas-Elgin Memorial Centre (80 Wilson Ave.) for more than 12 years! Tickets are $25 + hst per person (age 2 and up) and include; • A 25-minute ride led by Thomas the Tank Engine! • Meeting Sir Topham Hatt, Controller of the Railway • A Thomas & Friends Imagination Station; featuring temporary tattoos, hands-on arts & crafts, play dough, train play tables, and coloring. • Storytelling, video viewing, live children’s entertainment featuring music, magic & puppet shows • Bubbles, Misty Island cool mist tents, creatures and small animals, inflatable bouncers, model railway displays, and more! • On-site accessible parking, and FREE parking lot adjacent to event site

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Come and hop aboard the London Knights bus at our Touch a Truck, Touch a Train event, on May 27th from 10am-3pm! Only 21 more days to go! Special thank you to Badder Bus Operations Ltd. for supporting our event with this epic coach.

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23 more days to go until our Touch a Truck, Touch a Train event, on May 27th from 10-3! Come check out this awesome 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor, graciously provided by St. Thomas Ford Lincoln.

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Only 25 more days until our Touch a Truck, Touch a Train event, taking place on May 27th from 10-3! We have gathered some exciting vehicles to discover, including this amazing Tanker Truck provided by Dowler-Karn Limited.

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CONTEST TIME! Like and tag who you would bring for a chance to win TWO Family 4-packs of tickets! Contest closes 5pm, May 11th. Start planning your summer family fun! Day Out With Thomas - THE FRIENDSHIP TOUR 2017 will be in St. Thomas, Ontario July 15, 16 & 21-23! For tickets and info click: http://www.ticketweb.ca/venue/st-thomas-elgin-memorial-centre-st-thomas-on/24955?pl=thomas16&REFID=ecrmfb Event Details: Hosted annually by the Elgin County Railway Museum, at the St. Thomas-Elgin Memorial Centre (80 Wilson Ave.) for more than 12 years! Tickets are $25 + hst per person (age 2 and up) and include; • A 25-minute ride led by Thomas the Tank Engine! • Meeting Sir Topham Hatt, Controller of the Railway • A Thomas & Friends Imagination Station; featuring temporary tattoos, hands-on arts & crafts, play dough, train play tables, and coloring. • Storytelling, video viewing, live children’s entertainment featuring music, magic & puppet shows • Bubbles, Misty Island cool mist tents, creatures and small animals, inflatable bouncers, model railway displays, and more! • On-site accessible parking, and FREE parking lot adjacent to event site • Event tickets also include free admission to the Elgin County Railway Museum located at 225 Wellington Street.

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It's National Volunteer Week! A special thank you goes out to all of our wonderful volunteers! You are the backbone of this museum and we appreciate everything you do to keep us on track!

Railway City Tourism

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MEDIA RELEASE - Railway Museum to receive $327,125 from Canada Cultural Spaces Fund towards roof replacement For Immediate Release April 10, 2017 - St. Thomas, Ontario: Visitors to the Elgin County Railway Museum will soon be able to experience more railway heritage. For more than twelve years, the organization has been unable to realize the full potential of its magnificent facility, because of the deteriorating condition of the century-old concrete paneled roof that is original to the building. The Museum, located in the former 1913 Michigan Central Locomotive shop currently has only 30% of its available floor space is accessible to the public for safety reasons. This limits visitors’ access to displays, and to the impressive collection of rolling stock railway equipment. Full replacement of the concrete roof with a modern metal system is needed. The organization has broken the project into sections, mirroring the stepped roof-line of the building, make the project and fundraising more manageable. This fall, the Museum plans to replace the roof over the centre section of its heritage building, which will increase the publicly accessible floor space by 35%, to a total of 65% of the extensive 52,000 square foot facility. This will open up an additional 18,200 square feet of cultural space that the Museum can offer to the community for programming, while increasing space available for exhibitions. This project will improve conditions for the protection of the largest artifacts the Museum has been entrusted to preserve and display, and support an improved environment for volunteers to work on rail equipment maintenance, restoration, and exhibit construction. “The public, and tourists the Museum attracts will benefit from an improved visitor experience, as their distance from our impressive rolling stock collection of coaches, cabooses and engines will be significantly reduced”, says Executive Director, Dawn Miskelly, “They will finally get the up-close experience so many of them have been asking for.” The total budget for the project is anticipated to be $654,250. The Canada Cultural Spaces Fund will contribute $327,125 in matching funds to the project, and the Museum’s fundraising efforts and contributions towards the project are $147,250 to date. According to the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Canadian Heritage, “Cultural spaces like the Elgin County Railway Museum bring people of all backgrounds together. By supporting the renovation of cultural infrastructure, we are creating jobs, strengthening communities, and putting arts and culture within reach of all Canadians.” The organization will actively continue fundraising the remaining $179,875 for the roof replacement through to its completion. Donations can be made through the Railway Museum’s Managed Fund at the Elgin St. Thomas Community Foundation, online at www.ecrm5700.org, or by calling or visiting the Railway Museum. This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada.