Fort Erie Railway Museum — Attraction in Fort Erie

If you have a small child, this is one of those places that you’ll only ever leave when you’ve reached the point that you simply need to drag them away screaming (I mean that as a positive, not a negative). It shares a property with the fire station, where they have a small fire truck that your child can get in. At the fire station they gave us a colouring book, plastic helmit, rub-on tattoo, and badge sticker. There’s also a vintage plane on display across the parking lot.

We went when it was “closed” on a Monday. This did not matter, as the only place that was off-limits was the inside of the old train station, which has some displays but was not strictly necessary to enjoy the site.

All-told: your 3-7 year-old will love it. And there are plaques with information around the train that are also interesting to...

This was one of the places we would always stop at when my family and I would travel to the Niagara Region for our summer vacation when I was a kid. Stopped in to reconnect with my youth as well as with the memory of my dad (he used to work as a fireman on 4-8-4s out of Hornpayne back in the day). It was a bit of an emotional visit. Sadly to to preservation work being done/needed you can't enter the locomotive cab or the caboose...

We had a great experience here. It was a bit of a short visit, but my son really loved it. Shout out to the gift shop for having lots of toys at affordable prices. My only warning is that the gift shop only takes cash so I can only spend the few dollars I had in my pocket otherwise I probably would’ve spent more...