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National Train Day – AND – Mother’s Day Weekend
May 10 @ 10:00 am - May 11 @ 5:00 pm
National Train Day is observed this year on Saturday, May 10, also the 156th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike and ALSO it’s a day before Mother’s Day, May 11! IDEA! Hey kids! Bring your mom this weekend. She gets in free, that’s right, notta, nothing, a freebie! Thank you, Mom(s)!
Dad snapping a pic of mother, Gertrude, her ’54 Roadmaster and (ever the railfan) UP Challenger 3935 near Lostmyhat, NE, 1955.
And since we are a “transportation museum,” dad’s pic of mom as a “stew” for United at Midway with a DC-6, 1955