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Soldiers & Switchmen – Railroad City at War

November 13, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Join the Railroaders Memorial Museum on Saturday and Sunday, November 13 and 14 for “Soldiers & Switchmen.” This unique event will consist of living historians portraying and interpreting different American conflicts and how rail travel was involved in each. Quality displays will be found scattered throughout the immersive environments of the Railroaders Memorial Museum. Coinciding with the thematic and chronological elements of exhibits, each historian will appear in authentic attire pertinent to a certain wartime era, ranging from the Mexican War through the Vietnam War

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