Tickets & Gift Certificates | Entertrainment Junction

Christmas at the Junction!

November 16 thru January 5

This ticket includes all our great attractions! Plus Christmas Journey where you become wrapped in an amazing winter wonderland on the way to the North Pole. At the North Pole where you can visit with Mrs. Claus and get some one-on-one time with Santa himself. (Santa goes on vacation after Christmas).

SPECIAL EXTENDED HOURS on some days from December 20th^th thru December 30^th when we will remain open until 8pm. The Junction closes at 4pm on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve and is closed on Christmas Day. This ticket may not be used with other discounts or specials.

Kids 2 & under are FREE!

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Christmas at the Junction tickets include:

The World’s Largest Indoor Model Train display
Imagination Junction – children’s interactive play area
American Railroading Museum – how railroads have changed our lives
Expo Center – The World’s Most Complete Collection of Marbles, Neil Young’s Lionel Traveling Train Display, the Greater Cincinnati Railway Society’s historical library and more.

PLUS THE A-MAZE-N FUNHOUSE

Crazy Caper
Mirror Maze
Clown College
Outer Limits
Curtain Chaos
And Christmas Journey

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Special Events

EVERYTHING THOMAS

Open February and August Thomas the Tank Engine is in every direction. Junction Hobbies is selling every Thomas item in our huge selection at an amazing 15% OFF! Kids can play on Thomas play tables, push buttons to run our Thomas electric train sets, or enjoy Thomas crafts.Then, find Thomas and Friends hidden throughout our train layout. Kids can also ride our special indoor train ride in February or ride both our kid’s outdoor train rides in August.

JACK O’ LANTERN JUNCTION

Open mid-September through Halloween Visit the area’s only indoor Pumpkin Patch where kids get a free mini pumpkin! Trick or treat as you wind your way through our no-scare Halloween maze with friendly ghosts, skeletons, and more. Plus, enjoy our Halloween coloring and crafts, try your hand at our Jack o’Lantern scavenger hunt, or ride our outdoor kid’s rides with special Halloween themes!

CHRISTMAS AT THE JUNCTION

Open mid-November through December Experience a warm holiday glow that your family will never forget! Enjoy Christmas train displays FREE!! See how many Santas you can find hidden throughout our train display. Then, head to the North Pole and go through our Christmas Journey in our amazing winter wonderland, get a cookie from Mrs. Claus and of course, stop by to visit Santa! Santa goes on vacation after Christmas.

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Available for purchase at the ticket window.

Audio Tour

Want to know more about the World’s Largest Indoor Model Train Display? Our iPod Audio Tour takes you on a trip through our 25,000 sq. ft. display with 31 stops filled with historical facts, information about the people who built it, and even details on how it all came together. Please leave at least 45 minutes for this audio adventure!

$2.00 per person

V.I.P Backstage Tour

Take a guided tour takes inside the mountains to see what happens behind the scenes. Learn secrets about the World’s Largest Model Train Display and how it began. You will also learn about the construction, train computerization, see projects in the works, and interesting facts.

12 minute tour – $10.00 per person

35 minute tour – $20.00 per person

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.