This holiday season the Haddam Historical Society will host “All Aboard for the Holidays” at the historic Thankful Arnold House Museum where visitors will enjoy trained themed rooms featuring history exhibits, train displays and holiday gifts.
The kitchen will feature an operating display of vintage Lionel trains and accessories from the mid-late 1940s, recreating that classic era of toy trains. A train-themed holiday tree will be featured, as well as train-related artifacts from both historical society and private collections.
For such a small town, Haddam had no less than five train stations. All are long gone now, but now these stations live on in miniature. Noted local modeler (and HHS board member), Bill Schneider, has recreated ALL FIVE stations in HO scale (1/87 full size). Bill’s work has been featured in several magazines including Railroad Model Craftsman and Great Model Railroads as well as in several hobby books. These custom-built, one-of-a-kind model displays will be available with all proceeds benefiting the Haddam Historical Society.
The Society gift shop will be packed with a variety of goodies including themed gifts to capture the spirit of the holidays including trained-themed gifts, old-fashioned candy, Colonial -period toys, locally handcrafted goods, kissing balls, holiday cards with scenes of area landmarks and so much more. In addition, visitors can enter our holiday raffle for fabulous prizes including tickets to the Essex Steam Stream and Riverboat, Melissa and Doug train set, and area historic train maps. This is an event not to be missed.
The museum will be open to the public on the following dates for “All Aboard for the Holidays”
Admission is free and will be open to the public on:
Saturday, December 3, 2023, from 10 am to 4 pm
Sunday, December 4, 2023, from 10 am to 4 pm
Saturday, December 9, 2023, from 10 am to 4 pm
Sunday, December 10, 2023, from 10 am to 4 pm
The museum is located at 14 Hayden Hill Road, Haddam, CT
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