Kids Day Camps
Train-Themed Day Camps at Auburn Heights
Does your child ages 10-15 like playing with trains? Have them come play with ours this summer!
These immersive camps are limited to just 10 participants, ensuring each camper gets hands-on time in every activity. Spots fill up fast—don’t miss your chance to let your child have a memorable experience!
Camp Date: Monday, July 28 – THREE SPOTS LEFT
Step into the boots of a train engineer for a day at our Train Engineer Express one-day camp! Designed for youth ages 10-15, this hands-on experience brings railroading to life as campers take on real tasks of a locomotive crew.
Highlights include:
- Learning how to fire up and ride our 1/8-scale steam-powered locomotive
- Handling authentic vintage train tools, including trying to drive railroad spikes and lifting railroad ties
- Playing interactive games to master engineer responsibilities such as learning train signals and wheel configurations
- Finally, getting to drive our 1/8-scale diesel locomotive around the property!
Model Railroading – One-Day Camp experiences
Intro to Model Railroading – Tuesday, August 5 – SOLD OUT!
Perfect for beginners! This one-day camp introduces youth ages 10-15 to the exciting world of model railroading. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to improve your layout, this immersive experience provides easy and affordable tips to build and maintain your own model railroad.
Highlights include:
- Building a scenic diorama to use in a current (or future) layout
- Learning modeling basics, such as constructing mountains, rocks, trees and buildings
- Getting hands-on laying track and assembling HO and O gauge layouts. Discover how track and scenery come together to bring layouts to life
- Finally, having plenty of time to run model trains!
Advanced Model Railroading – Wednesday, August 6 – ONE SPOT LEFT!
Campers do NOT need to have participated in the Intro to Model Railroading camp to sign-up.
For model railroad enthusiasts who have some experience or have completed our Intro to Model Railroading camp, this advanced session is designed to level up skills with more technical and creative model railroading techniques. By the end of the day, campers will have a deeper understanding of additional techniques and hands-on experiences to apply to their own layouts
Highlights include:
- Constructing realistic backgrounds that bring your layout (or your previously constructed diorama) to life
- Performing basic car maintenance such as cleaning, troubleshooting and replacing couplers & wheels
- Learning how to read and follow track plans to construct an HO or O scale layout
- Getting hands-on instruction in Digital Command Control (DCC) to customize train operations.
- Finally, having plenty of time to run model trains!
Register for Camp
Please note: In order to check out, you will need some medical information and emergency contacts. We apologize for asking all this information up front, but it saves us time in having to bug you for this down the road.