Train Day
Saturday, June 21
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
CanalWay Center
Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation • Cuyahoga Heights
Free!
Can you hear it? It is the clickety clack of the engine rolling down the railroad tracks! The train is headed back to CanalWay Center “depot.”
Experience the sights and sounds of the railroads. Visitors, young and old, will enjoy a variety of activities throughout the day including model train exhibits – featuring G-scale, N-scale and S-scale.
More than 40 trains a day rumble over the nearly 2,000-foot long bridge visible high above the Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation. The bridge, built in the late 1800s, is part of the Cleveland Short-Line Railway.
Join the train spotters listening to engineers talking as trains pass over the reservation and the canal. Children can create train crafts and ride the kids’ train (for a nominal fee), while the whole family can enjoy learning about trains and listening to the sounds of some toe-tapping, train-related musical entertainment. Take a self-led walk along the ‘hobo trail’ or join a hike with staff to the Overlook. Enjoy viewing train memorabilia and more!
Hike along the “hobo trail” to talk with hobos and learn the markings these American travelers used to communicate with other hobos. Over 20 hobo markings will be displayed along the trail, which were used as sources of communication from one hobo to the next.
Hobos along the Hobo Trail
Famous hobo's of yesteryear such as Hobo King, "Cannonball Eddie and his Queen, Box Car Myrtle, along with "Scoop Shovel Scottie" and even "Frisco Jack have flipped a "hobo special" on the "Apple Butter Route" while looking for The Big Rock Candy Mountain, a hobo's paradise. And they found that paradise at CanalWay Center Cleveland Metroparks on Train Day. Join us at the hobo camp where you'll smell fresh blackstrap brewing and be greeted with hobo hospitality, or meet us on the trail for a word of hobo wisdom.
For more information visit: http://www.clemetparks.com/events/train%20day.asp
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