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Are you hungry from your run through the A-Maze-N FunHouse? Did the Imagination Junction kids’ play area wear out your kids and you? Need a break after only making it halfway through Train Journey and the Railroad Museum

There’s shopping and eating aplenty at EnterTRAINment Junction! Food and gifts of all kinds for everyone in the family.

Junction Cafe

Stomach rumbling like a freight train coming down the tracks? Then check out Junction Cafe on Main Street! Enjoy lunch with hot dogs, chicken nuggets, pizza, specialty sandwiches and thirst-quenching beverages. Or, enjoy your favorite snack items—nachos, soft pretzels, chips and ice cream. Relax and eat on Junction Cafe’s landscaped patio.

West Chester Station Gift Shop

Be part of the in crowd with gifts featuring logo’d merchandise from the area’s newest family entertainment center. Hats, post cards, patches, and T-shirts in today’s popular colors and styles make perfect souvenirs from this unique Cincinnati attraction…Plus railroad themed-gifts for every train enthusiast.

Junction Hobbies & Toys

EnterTRAINment Junction brings you a great new Hobby and Toy Shop . Stop in and see our incredible inventory of G-Scale and HO trains and accessories, our great selection of Doll Houses and miniatures in both 1” and 1/2 ” scale, and the largest selection of Playmobil toys and Thomas the Train merchandise in the region. We also have Papo collectables, a unique Cobi line of toys (compatible with Lego brand) and wide variety of hobby supplies and building materials. Plus check our our new line of educational and novelty toys!

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.