Explore Our Exhibits
Train Station
In 2025, our Train exhibit received an upgrade and a designated exhibit space for the first time since Tommy the Train traveled to us from the Children’s Museum of Eastern Oregon back in 2018. Originally painted in a Thomas the Tank Engine style, we repainted the train and aligned it with our train table full of train tracks and railroad cars. The train and table moved to several different areas of the museum as other exhibits found their permanent homes, before we transformed the Tree House into a Train Station. Today, visitors can:
check their balance and withdraw money from a pretend ATM;
purchase a train ticket and hop on board the train;
operate the train as a conductor;
build with train tracks and railroad cars;
check the time in different time zones; and
check the train schedule on a calendar.
How does the Train Station support play-based education?
“90% of a child’s time is spent outside of school. Meaningful knowledge acquisition and learning skills are developed through self-directed, experimental, and content-rich playful learning experiences which enhance brain structure, facilitate executive functioning, cultivate early math and language skills, and encourage personal-social development.”