The Southeastern
Railway Museum announces that the annual Caboose Day event has been
expanded to a two day event celebrating the end of the train and the
folks that lived and worked there. This year’s event will be
Saturday & Sunday, April 5th & 6th. Hours on Saturday are
10am - 5pm, Sunday noon - 5pm
Activities include temporary
caboose tattoos, a caboose hunt, special speakers and food. There
will be a craft corner for kids to create a souvenir to take home as
well.
Through March 29 the museum is open for general
admission ONLY on Saturdays, 10am - 5pm Admission is $8 for adults,
$6 for seniors (65+), $4 for children (2-12). Children under 2 are
admitted free. Effective April 3, 2008 the museum will expand days
of operation for the summer.
About the museum:
The Southeastern Railway Museum has
been in operation since 1970 and is "Georgia's Official
Transportation History Museum". The museum has over 80 other
pieces of retired railway rolling stock including vintage steam and
diesel locomotives, passenger coaches, private business cars, a
World War II army troop kitchen, wooden freight cars, railway post
office car and maintenance of way equipment. Transit history is
represented with a cross section of busses and trolleys from the
early 1900's through the mid 1980's. The museum is also home to
MARTA's historic bus fleet which includes busses from many of the
predecessor systems to MARTA. Many other items from Georgia's
transportation history are also presented on the museum's 35-acre
site.
The museum is open ONLY on Saturdays January
through March. April through December the museum is open
Thursday - Saturday from 10am - 5pm.
The museum is located
at 3595 Buford Hwy in Duluth. Directions: From I-85
northbound, exit at Pleasant Hill Road. Turn left (west), pass
Gwinnett Place Mall, and continue approx. 3 miles to Buford Highway
(US 23). Turn right (north) on Buford Highway. Travel
approx. ¼ mile to Peachtree Road, turn left, cross railroad tracks,
then turn right into museum entrance.
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