Education

Summer Camp

Educator: Olga Cortes

Summer Camp

All aboard for railroad fun& adventure! Combine fun with learning and relive the "taming of the Wild West", while exploring our gigantic model railroad layouts. Besides arts, crafts, and stories of railroad heroes, campers build models of the first steel rails across the Sierra Nevadas, create their own dream layouts and have a ball on field trips to ride real trains and trollies!

Camps are for grades 1 - 8

Operation Lifesaver

Operation Lifesaver, started by a concerned railroad employee in Idaho in 1972, is a national, non-profit education and awareness program dedicated to ending tragic collisions, fatalities and injuries at highway-rail grade crossings and on railroad rights of way.

The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is proud to participate in this program through bilingual exhibits and educational training. The museum's education department meets weekly with a group of elementary school students to inform them about rail safety. Since its inception, this program has spread the message of rail safety to thousands of children throughout San Diego County.

Every year hundreds die and thousands are injured in nearly 3,000 highway-rail grade crossing collisions and 900 trespasser injuries or fatalities. Many tragic iincidents can be prevented if you follow these simple tips:

Know what your warning signs mean

Expect a train at anytime

 Don't get trapped on a highway-rail grade crossing

Never drive around crossing gates

Watch out for a second train

Get out of your vehicle if it stalls

Never race a train

Don't misjudge the train's distance and speed

Trains can't stop quickly, you can

Operation Lifesaver reminds you to Look...Listen...and Live

For more information call (800) 537-6224 or email: general@oli.org