{"id":636,"date":"2021-11-04T12:58:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirrclub.org\/WP\/?p=636"},"modified":"2024-09-28T14:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T18:22:14","slug":"holiday-junction-returns-for-the-2021-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirrclub.org\/WP\/holiday-junction-returns-for-the-2021-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Junction Returns for the 2021 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Holiday Junction, a beloved Cincinnati holiday tradition, pulls in to the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal on Friday, November 12, 2021.\u00a0 This year marks 75 years since the Duke Energy Holiday Trains made their first appearance in the Cincinnati Gas &amp; Electric (CG&amp;E) lobby, much to the delight of generations of Greater Cincinnatians through the years.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The historic O-scale B&amp;O layout\u2019s history in Cincinnati goes back to 1946 when the Baltimore &amp; Ohio Railroad shipped it (by rail of course) to town on loan to CG&amp;E to be displayed in their downtown Cincinnati lobby during the holiday season. And so began one of our much loved holiday traditions, filling generations of Greater Cincinnatians with so many memories through the years. \u00a0The layout has around 1,000 ft. of track, 60 locomotives, and 300 railroad cars which travel approximately 100,000 scale miles in a normal pre-pandemic season.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Don\u2019t forget to check out the no-touch interactive storybook filled with photos and the history of the Duke Energy Holiday Trains!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There is more to Holiday Junction than the Duke Energy Holiday Trains. You\u2019ll find multiple operating model railroads and railroad artifacts throughout the exhibit. Watch one of the earliest electric toy trains, the c. 1904 Carlisle &amp; Finch train, travel around its track. There\u2019s also the winter-themed garden railway layout created by our friends at the Greater Cincinnati Garden Railway Society, Thomas the Train G-scale layout, a 1960s era Lionel Super O layout, and the Lionel pre-war layout for <em>(my favorite to operate)<\/em>.\u00a0 Let\u2019s not forget about the impressive Brickopolis exhibit created by the talented folks at OKILug, filled with operating trains and other scenes made with LEGO bricks in a separate gallery.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Again this year, the children\u2019s train ride will not be operating. In its place is a scavenger hunt for themed items hidden throughout the garden railway layout.\u00a0 Another advantage of the children\u2019s train ride not operating is that adults can now view the entire garden railway layout which just wasn\u2019t possible with the ride operating around the layout. So don\u2019t forget to take advantage of the view!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Santa will be coming back to the Public Landing beginning on Nov. 26<sup>th<\/sup>, where he\u2019ll be looking out his window to chat and take photos with guests from a safe distance.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Holiday Junction runs November 12, 2021 through January 3, 2022 &amp; is open 10:00am-4:00pm Thursday through Monday &amp; some special holiday hours.\u00a0 Admission is free for CMC Members. Non-member admission is $10 each for adults &amp; children over 2 or $5 each if added to regular museum admission.\u00a0 Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/cincymuseum.org\/holiday-junction\">cincymuseum.org\/holiday-junction<\/a> for more details and special holiday hours.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday Junction, a beloved Cincinnati holiday tradition, pulls in to the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal on Friday, November 12, 2021.\u00a0 This year marks 75 years since the Duke Energy Holiday Trains made their first appearance in the Cincinnati<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[38,55,54,33,40,32],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-27","tag-bo","tag-cincinnati-museum-center","tag-holiday-junction","tag-holiday-trains","tag-lionel","tag-model-railroad"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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