During each week your child will learn about:
Monday - The Engineer and Fireman, learn how to drive a train
Tuesday - Conductor and Brakeman, learn how to run and stop a train
Wednesday - Signalman, learn flag, lantern, and whistle signals
Thursday - Track workers, learn how to lay track
Friday - Certification and train ride

Each day the child will rotate with their group through each of these stations: crafts, activities, learning time, snack, and loco - motion.

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 Thursday - Saturday from 10am – 5pm through December 31. Effective January 2, 2010, the museum will operate on it's restricted winter schedule (open ONLY on Saturday, 10am – 5pm, each week).

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.