News Room
Nov.5.2009
From Roads to Rails Custom Model Train Display Open Daily November 14-December 31, 2009
“All Aboard!” This year’s model train display is scheduled to depart the Tuckerville Station at the Antique Auto Museum (AACA) at Hershey on Saturday, November 14th, 2009. It is another opportunity to cruise through time on rails and roads at the AACA Museum during the Holiday Season.
Travel back in time as trains take you to “Tuckerville USA”, the Museum’s vision of small town America in the 1930’s through the 1950’s. You will see a farm, community of businesses and homes, a working railroad yard, and a lumbering operation. Interactive features include a drive-in car-hop restaurant, gas station, playground, locomotive overhaul shop and a construction site equipped with an operating bulldozer and backhoe. A new and expanded display for this year includes an operating drive-in movie theatre, a saw mill lumberyard and four additional sidings for the storage of freight and passenger rail cars.
For our younger visitors, Thomas the Tank Engine and his Friends will be running again on the min-line providing enjoyment for all. Also, on a separate display, Thomas the Tank Engine Wood Railway will be available for “hands on” use.
The rails at Tuckerville feature trains by Lionel, Williams, Rail King and Bachmann in both O and HO Gage sizes.
Ed Maloy, one of the Museum’s founding Board Members and “Crew” leader, has said “The display has its origin through the donation of an extensive train collection by the Cammack family of Virginia and the services of over 20 Museum Volunteers - the ‘Crew’- who have devoted hundreds of man hours to its design, construction and maintenance” of the display.
In addition to the model railroad display, the Museum is currently featuring a special Camaro & Firebird Exhibit, Jewels from the JWR Museum Collection, Fast from the Past: Competition Motorcycles of Yesteryear and some other very special and diverse vehicles: 1953 Cadillac LeMans Dream Car, Allegheny Ludlum Stainless Steel Cars, GM Futurliner #10, 1956 Packard Caribbean Concept Car to name a few. Visit our website for all the details on these great exhibits as some will one be on display for a short time.
With the help of our sponsor, Members 1st Federal Credit Union, and hundreds of volunteer hours, the Museum’s staff looks forward to presenting another great Holiday Season to our visitors this year!
The Antique Auto Museum at Hershey, a member of the Smithsonian Institute Affiliations Program, displays beautifully restored automobiles, buses and motorcycles in unique life-like scenes representing the 1900’s – 1970’s in a cross-country journey from New York to San Francisco. This Museum, a 501 © (3) non-profit organization, is one of the nation’s newest and largest automotive museums. Special exhibits change several times a year and focus on a variety of eras and types of vehicles. The Museum is located just off Route 39, one mile west of Hersheypark Drive in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Regular admission $10, seniors age 61 and older $9, juniors age 4-12 $7, children age 3 and under are FREE. The Museum is open daily from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The Museum will be closed on November 26, December 24, 25 and January 1-8, 2010. For further information, please call 717-566-7100 or visit www.aacamuseum.org.
