Summer Camp
All aboard for railroad fun & adventure!
Combine fun with learning and relive the "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!
Summer Camp activities
These are some of the activities that campers will enjoy during our summer camps. These activities may change or new ones may be added.
*The 1st and 2nd grade campers’ activities include museum tours, Steam and diesel engine mechanics and presentations, train safety presentations, a field trip to ride the zoo train, work pages, railroad history, freight trains, passenger trains, creating layouts in G scale, scavenger hunts, and arts and crafts. At the end of the week there will be an end of camp party!
*The 3rd and 4th grade campers’ activities include museum tours, railroad history, creating a topographic map, workbooks, railroad safety education, a field trip to ride the zoo train, diesel/steam engine mechanics, model railroad electrics, freight car building and weathering, model buildings, and creating layouts in G, and HO gauges. At the end of the week there will be an end of camp party!
*The 5-8th grade campers’ activities include museum tours, railroad history, diesel/steam engine mechanics, train safety presentation, a field trip to the trolley yard, model railroad electrics, freight car building and weathering, model buildings, creating layouts in G, and HO gauges.
Download the Registration Form click here (Summer Camp Brochure)
2010
Dates Grade level Times
June 28–Jul 2 1st & 2nd 9am-12pm
July 5-9 3rd & 4th 9am-12pm
July 19-23 5th - 8th 9am-12pm
July 26-30 1st & 2nd 1-4 pm
August 9-13 1st & 2nd 1-4 pm
Cost for camps is $85.00 (members) & $95.00 (non-members)
San Diego Model Railroad Museum
1649 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92101
ph: 619.696.0199
