Foley Railroad Museum, Alabama, United States

5Deb62862 5:00 PM Nov 15, 2021

Awesome model train exhibit
This was one of the best things we saw on a recent trip to the Alabama Gulf Coast region. The model trains only run on certain days and at certain times, so check their website or call before visiting. There's really three parts to this. There's a train that you can ride around their sort of town square area. There's a train museum, showing some of the history of the area and its relationship to the railroad in the area. And, there's the model train exhibit, which is massive. Its a huge room with four large trains, at least one smaller train and a trolley running through the exhibit. Then men running it are very knowledgeable about the exhibit and are happy to answer any questions you may have. They also have a scavenger hunt sheet that you can use to spot specific items in the exhibit. We'll definitely tour it again when we return to the area. Note that its free, but they do accept donations.

5journalmytrips 5:00 PM May 19, 2022

Great fun
My first thought about stopping here was that the visit would be short but in fact we stayed about one hour. The small museum was of some interest with the history of Foley but the model trains were the main attraction. We were there on a day and time when the trains were running. There were two freight trains, two passenger trains, one Thomas the train, a streetcar and a N gauge train circling a park. If you wished you could also do a sort of scavenger hunt finding all the buildings etc. in the village. This helped one to concentrate on all the details in setting up the model train exhibit.