From RUTHERFORD B. HAYES PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY & MUSEUMS
For people who need help troubleshooting problems with their model trains or people wondering how to best care for their trains, there are two opportunities to receive help at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, Spiegel Grove, Fremont.
Model train enthusiasts will offer a train clinic from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6, to help visitors get their trains ready for Christmas.
The clinic will be offered again on Saturday, Jan. 3, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission to each clinic is $5 per person ages 6 and older and free for ages 5 and younger. Admission can be purchased at the museum front desk the days of the events.
Veteran model train hobbyists will examine model trains that guests bring in and help them with advice. Those who bring trains to the clinic can also run their trains on the “Hayes Train Special” model train display track. The track fits standard, O-gauge and G-gauge trains.
“The Hayes Train Special” is Hayes Presidential’s annual model train display, where model trains run through a Victorian holiday scene.
Visitors and train clinic participants can watch the trains wind through tunnels and villages in this multi-tiered 12-foot by 24-foot exhibit. People can get involved by pushing buttons that run one of the trains, blow the train whistle, and more.
The train clinics and “Hayes Train Special” are part of “A Presidential Christmas,” a series of holiday events at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. Partial funding for “A Presidential Christmas” is by Wright Leather Works.
The “Hayes Train Special” is sponsored by Croghan Colonial Bank and the Knight family.
For information on “A Presidential Christmas” events, visit https://www.rbhayes.org/news/2025/10/30/general/a-presidential-christmas-all-the-holiday-info-you-need-here/.
