The Grand Opening of the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum will be held this Saturday April 12, 2008 from 10 am to 5 pm.
The new museum is located at 500 S. Third Street in Hamburg, Pa. just off PA Route 61 one mile south of Exit 29 of I78.
To mark the opening a community event called a BEE Line Festival will be held. The mission of the BEE Line Festival is to provide a community event that will generate awareness of the Museum’s large collection of Reading equipment, artifacts and ephemera..
The Reading Railroad Heritage Museum is part of the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society (RCT&HS). Through dedication and hard work over the last 32 years, RCT&HS has amassed the largest railroad collection in the United States dedicated to a single railroad.
In addition to food, music and family fun the museum will offer several special programs. Former Reading employees will engage in round table discussions on life on the Reading. A former operator will demonstrate the functions of the control panel from the Reading’s Lebanon Valley Junction Tower. Operating HO and G Gauge layouts and a station agent’s office circa 1934 can be viewed. Caboose and locomotive cab tours will be offered. A variety of Reading diesel horns will be sounded and a storyteller will relate railroad ghost stories.
Admission is $10 adults, $5 children, maximum $25 for a family.
Here is a link to the museum's web site.
http://www.readingrailroad.org/museum/index.html