Another Train Display Close to Home
According to TouringOhio.com, Across the road from Veterans Memorial Park is the Railroad Heritage Park has a 1905 Shay Train Engine (Serial Number 1568) built at the Lima Locomotive Works for the Tioga Lumber Company in West Virginia. Also included is the attached tender and caboose along with a 100 year old lumber office building and inside, plenty of artifacts and memorabilia.
I dressed the kids up to head over to Harrod, Ohio to check out this park that is featured in the Allen County Travel Guide. If you have never picked up a copy of this magazine from the visitors bureau, you should! Doesn't matter what county you live in, every county in Ohio has one. Go check it out.
So in the magazine what this Railroad Heritage Park that was only about 20 minutes away. I wondered as we drove there if it even existed because I hadn't ever heard anyone talk about it. Wow, for the train lovers, I ask....why aren't you talking about it? Do you know it exists and children can climb on it and explore? It was amazing for my train lover and his sister.
The engine allows kids to jump on and pretend they are driving. Isaac and Olivia reenacted the scene from polar express, throwing coal into the coal car and pulling down on the emergency break. The caboose is cool too. I wish we were able to walk through it, but it was locked. I'm guessing they open it up when people are there to watch.
This park is complete with a ticket booth place and railroad crossing sign. Isaac was in heaven. So if you have a die-hard train lover like I do, be sure to take the short drive to Harrod, OH to check out the Shay Engine and Caboose.
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