Grandparents Day at the Virginia Museum of Transportation on Saturday - Augusta Free Press

Admission is discounted to $5 per person: grandparents, museum members, and children age two and under get in free. Thanks to AARP, there will be a free gift for the first 250 children, and free ice cream for everyone from , while supplies last. Parking in the Brandon lot in front of the Museum will be free for the day. Train rides are provided by the Roanoke Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society pulled by the chapter’s historic T-6 Alco Diesel Locomotive (not J 611). Train rides are $3 per person per ride: children age two and under ride free. Learn from a member of the engine crew what it takes to operate the steam locomotive. The Roanoke Valley Model Engineers located in the Museum’s basement will welcome guests to their Open House. Learn how to make a model tree to “plant” at the Museum, to help the forest in the Museum’s O-Gauge layout grow. Open for visitors to see and/or sit in: 1995 Hummer H-1, 1981 DeLorean DMC-12, 1963 Chevrolet Impala, 1962 Studebaker Lark, 1950 Studebaker Land Cruiser, and 1932 Ford Model B Pickup Truck. Dash Dupree and the Queen of Steam is a special children’s story book that tells a fanciful story of one child’s love for the Class J 611 steam locomotive. Source: augustafreepress.com