Holiday Train Show at Western PA Model Railroad Museum Takes Viewers Into Past

Show at Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum in Gibsonia highlights the glory of the 1952 railroad system in Pittsburgh area.

Editor's Note: It's that time of year when families travel to the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum at the corner of Route 910 and Lakeside Drive in Gibsonia to delight in the annual holiday train show. We wrote about the display in December 2011 and thought we'd share it with you again ... with updated info about schedules.  Fifty years ago, people in the city of Pittsburgh would have seen trains ambling over bridges, following railroad tracks along rivers to take passengers and goods to their destinations. Those halcyon days might have been forgotten, had it not been for the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum. The museum has been in existence since 1938 when it was founded in Downtown Pittsburgh. It moved from place to …

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Watch: Trains Chug Through Western PA Model Railroad Museum in Gibsonia

The train display is open to the public only during the holidays.

Families have traveled to the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum during the holidays to delight in the sights and sounds of the model trains for years. This YouTube video gives you a preview of the show. The museum opened Saturday for its 25th annual display. For times and dates when the museum is open, click on this link and then click on "Holiday Train Show" on the left side of the page. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter  

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Holiday Model Train Show Captures Pittsburgh Area's Railroad History

Show at Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum in Gibsonia highlights the glory of the 1952 railroad system in Pittsburgh area.

Fifty years ago, people in the city of Pittsburgh would have seen trains ambling over bridges, following railroad tracks along rivers to take passengers and goods to their destinations. Those halcyon days might have been forgotten, had it not been for the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum. The museum has been in existence since 1938 when it was founded in Downtown Pittsburgh. It moved from place to place with no real home until 1986, when organizers built its current headquarters at 5507 Lakeside Drive in Gibsonia. The museum hosts a holiday show every winter to highlight its model layout of the massive Mon-Valley system that ran from Pittsburgh to Cumberland, MD back in 1952. This year marks the 24th holiday show for the museum, …

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Brian O'Malley

10:39 am on Saturday, December 10, 2011

This is a great museum here in Richland Township. Glad we can share this with our friends and family when they are in town around the holidays!   more ›