• Night Trains 2025 – 2026 Season

    Twin City Model Railroad Museum 668 Transfer Road, Suite 8, Saint Paul, MN, United States

    Night Trains® season is a special Holidays tradition at the Twin City Model Railroad Museum.

    $15
  • Lighting of the Arthur Anderson

    Twin City Model Railroad Museum 668 Transfer Road, Suite 8, Saint Paul, MN, United States

    Lighting the Anderson -  50th Anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald Tragedy   Join us for the "Lighting the Anderson” on November 10th during our regular hours from 10am to 3 pm. During this event we will light the newly arrived scale model of the Arthur Anderson ore ship, run several ore trains on our layouts and dim the room lights to give a preview of Night Trains.   After Nov. 10 the Anderson will be lit for all future Night Trains. The Anderson should be an impressive addition to Night Trains as it has 274 LED lights on board.   [...]

    $10
  • TCMRM Model Railroad Garage Sale

    Twin City Model Railroad Museum 668 Transfer Road, Suite 8, Saint Paul, MN, United States

    Help the museum fund our operations and clear out our warehouse of excess items. There will be trains of nearly every scale, buildings, books and other items for sale at hobby show prices! The next garage sale will be March 7th from 10-5 and March 8th from 12-3 at the museum located at 668 Transfer Road, Suite 8 St. Paul, MN 55114. This sale will be located in our event space right next to the main entrance. No admission required for the sale but we do hope you'll visit the museum during our regular hours! Sale excludes items for sale [...]

  • Circus Trains Month!

    Twin City Model Railroad Museum 668 Transfer Road, Suite 8, Saint Paul, MN, United States

    The (Model) Circus Trains Are Back in Town!  Check out the Circus Trains during all open hours in April and September! See our popular O-Scale train (over 60’ long) which consists of animal cars, passenger cars, and special circus flat cars, each loaded with hand-made special circus wagons plus a Parade thru “Hamline” and wagon unloading show on the “big” layout. Additional layouts will each feature Circus trains and / or displays in their own scale.
 This event is inspired by Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Co-sponsors: Ring 80 of Circus Model Builders. What are Circus Trains? Circus trains began [...]

  • Spring TCMRM Hobby Show and Sale

    MN State Fairgrounds - Education Building 1372 Cosgrove Street, Falcon Heights, MN, United States

    Next shows: May 2026 - May 9th, 2026 September 2026 - September 19, 2026 The Museum typically hosts a semi-annual Model Railroad Show and Hobby Sale at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds – Education Building in Saint Paul in May and September of each year. What will you find there? Operating layouts in several scales! Over 200 tables of new and used scale models; Toy Trains HO, O, 027, N, S, & Z scale plus Antiques, Collectibles, Tools, Books, Videos, Toys, Buildings, Magazines, Prints, Posters, Photos and more! Sale Address: MN State Fairgrounds - Education Building 1372 Cosgrove Street Falcon Heights, [...]

    $7