Wednesday, June 19, 2013
By Joe Phelan jphelan@centralmaine.com
Staff Writer
Model Railroad Celebration, at the Maine State Museum on State Street in Augusta, features displays by two clubs; the Great Falls Model Railroad Club and the Maine 3-Railers Club. Members have set up five layouts running O, HO, N and Z-gauge model trains.

Jaden Desmarais, 7 of Searsport, doesn't like the smell of the smoke coming off a model train running through a display on Friday at the Maine State Museum in Augusta.
Staff photo by Joe Phelan

A Thomas the Tank Engine model train runs through a Christmas time display on Friday at the Maine State Museum in Augusta.
Staff photo by Joe Phelan
The show will be open Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. and there is also free admission to the museum that day.
The model railroad display is in the Cultural Building atrium outside the Maine State Museum. It just south of the State House near the corner of State and Union Streets.
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Justin Widen, 10 of Wilton, takes a closer look at the model railroad displays on Friday at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. Staff photo by Joe Phelan |
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