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A thankful Junction

November 20, 2018

Here at the Junction we have so many things to be thankful for!

1) First and foremost, we are thankful for the volunteers who created such a wonderful display for all of us to enjoy! Without their hard work and craftsmanship we wouldn’t be here!

2) We are thankful for YOU!! All of our guests and pass holders bring such a JOY to this place. YOU are the reason we do what we do and YOU are the reason we have gotten this far! Thank you for your support and for telling your family and friends about us!

3) Our staff! We have the absolute best staff who have all become like family! It’s amazing to see such a bunch of hard working individuals come together and grow together in the workplace!

4) We love our community and having the support of so many wonderful business and other entertainment venues! Thank you for your partnership over the years and we look forward to many more partnerships in the future!

From all of us at EnterTRAINment Junction we wish you and your family a very happy, restful, and fulfilling Thanksgiving! Don’t forget that we’ll be closed for turkey day, but we will be open Black Friday! Junction Hobbies and Toys has some sweet deals like with every $60 purchase you will receive 2 do-it-all tickets to EnterTRAINment Junction. (Tickets valid Jan-May 2019) AND for every $30 you spend on Playmobil, you get a free mystery figure!

Did you know?

Our highest mountain on display is over 16 feet tall.

Our Train Journey uses 1,968 gallons of scenic colored dirt and grasses costing over $26,000

Our mountains are carved out of 58,000 square feet of spray foam!

We have over 2 miles of G track with 1 mile hidden inside mountains.

There are over 100 scratch built bridges and trestles modeled after real-life structures.

Over 130 talented craftsmen volunteered over 200,000 man-hours to create our display.

EnterTRAINment Junction was conceived in 2003, train construction began in June of 2007 and opened for business in August of 2008.

The entire display is built to be historically accurate showing railroads in 3 distinct time periods.

Opening for business in August 2008, we’ve continuously added more to layouts each month.

Over 1,800 gallons of water is used with 3 storage tanks for waterfalls and rivers.

The control panels that operate each track have over 20,000 solder joints with 8,000 lines of programming to operate multiple trains on the same track.

The walkway through our exhibit is 850 feet long.

Our train display is 25,000 sq. ft. – about ½ of a football field.

Each tunnel leads you into a new time period through your journey.

Our scale is ½” = 1 ft. So, a 6 ft person in life is modeled as a 3” person in our display.

We have hidden 10 dinosaurs in our display – can you find them all?

All of our volunteers leave a personal touch on the items they work on – you can even see a photo of some in their buildings!

The seats in our museum are from Dayton train station from 1900.

We’ve had visitors from all 50 states and 37 countries!

We recently added a Bates Motel to our display – have you spotted it yet?

The tilt in our tilt room is 25 degrees.

During construction, we had to dig into the ground to build the Ames Room.

When you take a picture with flash on a camera of the steamboat, you’ll hear thunder after like it was a flash of lightning.

During your journey, we simulate night and day with 15 minutes of daytime followed by 5 minutes of night.

The switchback line has 2 trains. The one going up the hill has no logs and the train going downhill are fully loaded with logs.

The Coney Island amusement park display is a replica of Cincinnati’s Coney Island as it looked in 1965 – complete with working rides.