Monticello Railway Museum

I made the effort to visit on a steam weekend where #401, a 2−8−0 Baldwin 1907 for the Southern Railway did all the work. SHE is a must see. An extremely RARE #44 built by Davenport Locomotive, 1975 has twin 6 cylinder Cummins diesels which gets just passing glimpses. Purchase the booklet Equipment guide and get the inner skoop on almost all of the rolling stock. I’ve your a railfan, then there is much to see. If someone is working in a particular bldg., them he may invite you to enter to see what is inside. Some of the rolling stock is housed, others are sheltered and others are not protected from the elements. The Pleasant Valley sleeper 1942 Pullman 6−6−4 type, Nickel Plate Rrd #329 RPO/​baggage 1920’s Pullman and the Delaware & Hudson #405 baggage cars are open to the public w/​displays.

It was rail days all weekend at this place and we had never been to this museum. Me & my honey were really looking forward to going and we had a great time. You pay $ 10.00 and we got to ride 3 different trains which was a lot of fun. They have a train that takes you to downtown Monticello so you can go shopping or to dine there. A lot of the engines you can actually go into it and see all the controls. They have old Pullman cars and cabooses that you get to go into as well. We were able to go through there engine house and that was neat seeing all the locomotives being worked on by the volunteers. They have lots of old engines and lots of cars. Everyone is really nice there too and will answer all your questions. This is all ran by volunteers and they all really love the train and the railroad. We got there at 10:30 and stayed there till 3:30 pm. If your looking for something to do one weekend this is a place where you can learn about American railroad history.

This place was so much fun! You board the train and they take you out a little way and stop and then they go backwards through the «haunted forest». Somehow they make it sound like something is hitting the top of the train car. They play creepy music and have ghouls lurking through out the train scaring people. That’s their purpose and sometimes little ones don’t like that. In a case on our train the ghoul took his mask off so the little kid who was crying hysterically could see he was just a person in a mask.
My 6 year old really wanted to go through the haunted train car which doesn’t move. They have about 8 feet of an inflatable thing that is really hard to get through and it freaked her out so we decided not to go through it. She really wanted to so we got back in line. We were the last ones in line from our train ride. The lady operating standing by the entrance offered to turn it off so we could walk through. She did and we walked in and I announced the I had a little girl who really wanted to go through but to please not scare her and they didn’t. They all stayed still and didn’t scare her. That was so fantastic. The people here are great and we had a fabulous time. I will be taking my daughter on the Polar Express train ride in December. We have also done the lunch with Santa twice and I highly recommend that for little one.