VISITOR INFORMATION
Schedule / hours: 2017: Usually open to the public on the last three Sundays and Family Day Monday in February, from 12 noon to 4:30 p.m.
Admission price: 2017: $8/adults, $5/seniors, $4/children (cash only).
Address: 171 East Liberty Street, Suite B1 in the basement below the Casalife store (go around the east end of the building and walk 200 feet).
TorontoPhone: 416-536-8927
Website: www.modelrailroadclub.comNearby restaurants: • You’ll many food options in Liberty Village, surrounding the Model of railroad Club of Toronto. With young kids, you might prefer the Liberty Village Market & Café (further west on Liberty Street, at Jefferson). it is a cafeteria-style restaurant with a nice vintage feeling in the back.
While you are there: • Try to spot the funky benches along Liberty Street, part of the BENCHmark project. One of them, at Liberty Street and Fraser, is a giant working xylophone!
Age group: 2 - 12 years old
Attraction suitable for:
Toddlers
Preschoolers
School
Preteen
The genius of miniaturization
Here, railcars that measure 40 feet in reality barely make 10 inches. It is the world of "O" scale. The entire set, installed on a huge raised table, is inspired by the styles of the 1955-62 period and comprises the equivalent of 10 miles of track. The small locomotives pull long strings of railcars through villages, mountains and a harbour. All the kids in our group kept changing locations to capture every angle of the fourteen moving trains. It took them more than one hour to get their visual fill! This is the result of 180,000 hours of work by passionate people, members of the Model Railroad Club of Toronto. Installed at the centre of the set, you can see some of them, remote controls in hand, playing the switchmen to direct the miniature railway traffic.
