WOW! You guys are GREAT! We love our supporters and guests so much! We have been overwhelmed by calls, letters, e-mails, and comments since the announcement that we were cancelling this event for this year due to construction issues. However, with such amazing support we cannot find it in our hearts to disappoint so many people. SO... We have brought the event back to life. It will be somewhat downsized due to a lack of available space but we are going to make this happen and Santa is so happy that he will be able to meet all the childern at the roundhouse.
Santa to make Whistle Stop Visit Next 3 Saturdays at Sioux City’s
Railroad
Museum
Sioux City, IA - The Railroad Museum - Sioux City
announces Santa will be
making his 2013 Whistle Stop Tour at the Milwaukee
Railroad Shops Historic
District on Saturdays, December 7th, 14th, and 21st.
Admission to the Railroad
Museum will be free during Santa’s Whistle Stop
Tour.
COLD TEMPERATURE ADVISORY - The Railroad Museum advises visitors to
dress
their children and themselves warmly and appropriately layered for the
colder
weather ahead, as the interior of the buildings will be very
cool.
Additionally, everyone is encouraged to wear shoes appropriate for
rugged
terrain and long distance walking between the roundhouse building and
the
model railroad exhibit center.
Santa will arrive by diesel
locomotive and caboose at 1:15 p.m.; and will
greet visitors in the Preservation Gallery of
the roundhouse building from 1:30 to 3:30.
Santa and his train will depart
the Railroad Museum at 3:30 p.m.
Visitors are welcomed to bring their
own digital device or camera to take
photos of Santa and his young believers.
In addition, the Railroad Museum will
take pictures for $5 each for those who
do not have a camera and wish to have
a photo print before they leave the
railroad museum complex.
Pending availability, Santa may bring a special
guest with him from the North
Pole – The Conductor - if he is not making a
train run. The Conductor will
do a special story book reading from The Polar
Express in the roundhouse atrium.
Motor Car rides
may be purchased for $1 per person during Santa’s Whistle
Stop Tour. This
“ride on the rails” is the Railroad Museum’s version of
a Christmas time
horse and sleigh ride. Visitors are encouraged to be bundled
up for the ride
with the much colder temperatures expected.
Santa, small electric trains
and Christmas are a natural holiday coupling.
After visiting Santa at the
Railroad Museum, children and grownups will have
the opportunity to watch and
enjoy the operations of an HO-Scale model
railroad exhibition featuring the
Nebraska Central Railway. In addition, there
may be an O-scale and N-scale
layout operating in the Model Train Exhibit
Center.
The Railroad
Museum - Sioux City is located in the Milwaukee Railroad Shops
Historic
District at 3400 Sioux River Road, along State Highway 12 – Loess
Hills
National Scenic Byway – in the north Riverside neighborhood of
Sioux
City.
