Trains Trains Trains

After reading about the Danbury Railway Museum on a parents' list some months ago, we have been looking for the opportunity to go.  Danbury is only about 45 minutes north of White Plains so on Saturday, GG and Grandpa joined us for the adventure.  It wasn't exactly on the way home, but at least it wasn't the complete opposite direction :)

So we arrived and after about fifteen minutes, we'd seen the entire interior portion of the museum.

If you are 3 years old and train obsessed (yes, that's you Finley), you were in heaven.  The rest of us were only mildly entertained, but thankfully GG and Grandpa had purchased us all train tickets and soon we heard the bell ring alerting us that it was time to board the train.  Finley didn't need to be told twice and he took off!

We boarded the train and began the short, slow trip across the rail yard.  Finley enjoyed every second!

Dagny enjoyed it, too.

Finley even got his ticket punched by the conductor.

The train stopped and we all got to "ride" the only working turntable in all of Connecticut! Again--if you are three, this experience equaled totally awesome fun.

We then rode the train further across the yard and back again while conductor talked to us about many of the trains in the yard (but sorry, Granddad, I don't remember much of what he said).  Afterwards, we got to explore the assorted trains parked in the yard and it was great fun.

A rare mommy-baby picture that I adore :)

Inside the caboose, Finley knew it was where the train crew got to ride and thought it was funny to see a kitchen and bathroom in there.

We checked out the mail train and then made our way to the big locomotive.

Finley tried out being the engineer!

It was pretty cold and windy by that point, so we made our way back inside the museum.

GG and Grandpa were great sports to tag along with us and Finley had a blast.  He's asked to go back again already...yikes...maybe next time his rail-buff Granddad is in town!