Join Us For Trains & Troops!

RJ Hamster

6 hours ago

Join our salute to American railroads and the United States military, service men and women, during the 24th annual Trains & Troops at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania on Saturday, November 2 and Sunday, November 3. Trains & Troops is sponsored by A. P. Murray.

The Red Rose Veterans Honor Guard will present the colors at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday and at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. The Lampeter-Strasburg Community Bandwill perform a repertoire of Americana and patriotic music on Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The Victory Society will present a period fashion show on Saturday at 2:00 p.m.

A fascinating array of military, railway and homefront vehicles, uniforms, equipment, field gear, maps, books, photographs, memorabilia and collectibles will be on display. Visitors also will encounter military, railroader and civilian living history re-enactors from various eras in our nation’s history throughout the Museum. Scheduled for Trains & Troops at press time were the:

● 2nd Infantry Division Korean War Re-enactors

● 8th Air Force

● 19th Century Firearms

● 28th Division 110th Infantry L Company

● 45th Infantry Division

● 325 Medical Battalion, 45th Infantry

● 724th Railroad Operating Battalion

● Company L, 109th Infantry, 28th Division

● East Coast Waves

● Fort Mott

● Fox Company, 506th, 101st Airborne Division

● General Grant Headquarters Camp at City Point

● Kilroy’s Homefront Commandos

● Larry Alexander, Author

● Medical Trains

● Miss Victory on the Homefront

● Office of Strategic Services

● Quartermaster Officer in World War II

● Railroad Operations on the Homefront

● Railway Artillery, Army Ground Forces Association

● Remembering the Korean War

● Stahlhelm’s Military Collectibles

● The Big Red One

● The Cold Warrior, U.S.S. Mullinex

● The Urban Island, Operation Vittles

● The Victory Kitchen

● The Victory Society

● U.S. Chaplain Corps

● U.S. Military Railroads

plus various roaming re-enactors.

Bring a new and unwrapped toy to donate on behalf of children who benefit from the U. S. Marine Corps Toys For Tots program!

Tickets are available for the 1940s Swing Dance, featuring the Moonlightersbig band performing live on Saturday night!

Purchase Your Swing Dance Tickets Here.

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is home to a world-class collection of about 100 historic locomotives and railroad cars, a vast research library and archives, a working restoration shop, an immersive education center and programs, a Museum store and special events and exhibits.

A Smithsonian Affiliate, the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania is one of 24 historic sites and museums administered by the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission as part of the Pennsylvania Trails of History®, with the active support of the nonprofit Friends of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

300 Gap Road, PA Route 741, P. O. Box 125

Strasburg, Lancaster County, PA 17579

RRMuseumPA.org • (717) 687-8628