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May-October: Open Saturdays and Sundays 10am-4pm |
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November-April: Closed
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The Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum Presents
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M E T A L F E S T 2 0 1 3
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SATURDAY MAY 4, 2013
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The Connecticut eastern Railroad Museum will once again host its annual opening day ‘Metal Fest’ to be held Saturday May 4, 2013. Yes the ‘Metal fest’ is coming to the railroad museum located at 55 Bridge Street, right next to the railroad tracks in downtown Willimantic, CT.
Come on down and spend a couple hours or spend the whole day. Come smell the burning coke, listen to the hammers hitting the white hot steel on those large heavy anvils. Spend time watching the numerous blacksmiths demonstrating their unique skills. Tour the museum grounds, visit our various railroad buildings in Columbia Junction, or pretend you are the engineer and sit up in the cab of a New Haven Railroad passenger locomotive, or try your luck on a replica 1850 hand pump car.
Throughout the day listen to band music or listen to the roving Barber shop quartet, if you get hungry purchase some food and beverage or visit of gift shop and purchase some railroad gifts and garb. If you get tired take a ride on our train to Bridge Street and back and ride along a section of the Air Line once travelled by the famous Ghost Train.
Please stop by and spend time with us and leave as a friend of the railroad.
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Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum
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55 Bridge Street, Willimantic Connecticut
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10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Admission Adults: $5.00 Children 8 - 12: $1.00 Under 8: FREE
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* Please Note Food, Beverage, and Train Ride Extra Fare
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Historic Museum Moment: First official excursion pulls out of station
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Photo by Robert A. LaMay
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The
April 2013
Issue of the
Ghost Train Journal
is now available online!
Make your name a permanent part of the museum:
Purchase a personalized engraved Roundhouse Floor brick!
(Form is about 720kb)
Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader - get it free
here
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