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February 21, 2019

It’s here!! EnterTRAINment Junction: The Making of a Masterpiece

We couldn’t be more excited to announce that our BOOKS have finally arrived!! They are available for purchase in our Gift Shop and online so we definitely recommend purchasing one! (Or 10!!)

We have been asked since we first opened if we have a “making of” book about the creation of EnterTRAINment Junction so we decided to put one together and it has finally happened! The book will include:

-the background and history behind EnterTRAINment Junction including some hard to believe photos taken during our construction phase. (We were just an empty warehouse at the time!)

-the planning and development stages including never before seen concept drawings

–volunteer highlights and the making of the world’s largest indoor train display.

-info. for the tech. junkies including PLC programming

-incredible photos throughout the layout spanning the different time periods

-unique stories behind different buildings in the layout
Of course there will be a section on our Coney Island display, our expo center, and museum as well!

We love our facility and we are happy to be able to document the progress that we’ve made up to this point. We love even more that we can share it with all of YOU!

This is the perfect souvenir for all of our visitors and out of town guests! So be sure to get one next time you’re at the Junction or order your copy online now!

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.