Douglas Railroad Interpretive Museum & Visitor's Center — Attraction in Douglas

What a fine and outstanding example of public works making a tourist destination out of our places we want to go in our own hearts. These carriages, engine, station, and caboose are in outstanding condition. So sorry if I sound corny if my imagination runs wild to think of them pulled into Chicago for that unfinished Agatha Christie sequal set by a park in the park by my boys state city, the innocence of a state fair that I first danced with a real girl, or to most of you a peaceful, honest, prarie town with beautiful churchloving, roller derby cheering folks with a thing for jackqlopes. Yes they are absolutely real! My boy Arlo, said it best of the exhibits - "they are trapped" referring to the boardwalk planplanks that cover a shattered splinter of tracks- and I realize I am trapped-like these trains, but magically these doors are not locked Pooof! instant time travel. Yes clearly this is not the Orient Express, or Indiana Jones, but it is musty and full of hope, we walk around in reverant silence wondering if the ghosts will drop us off in another praire in India, a movie set in Los Angeles or a ornate slab of icy concrete in Moscow, (Arlo was hoping for the North Pole talking about the polar Express constantly) good. What a great place to go, and find the dreams that will arrive, not too late,...

This was so cool! The amount of artifacts was incredible! You can walk in 4 of the 6 cars (due to needing restoration) and see the stuff first hand! We walked in the caboose, the passenger car, the dining car (which also included the kitchen) and the sleeping car. There is a steam locomotive there as well, but you cannot climb it. We have so many pictures from this place! Then in the depot there, Chris, the lady there was so cool to talk to and so informative. The artifacts in there was cool too! Chris gave us a sticker map of the jackalopes in Douglas to go find, we went and found 5 of 16 stickers! The people here are very friendly too. We would give this place more than 5 stars if we...

We were I Douglas just for the jackalopes so we stopped by for the Jackalope Catching license. We were hoping that this place would have good souvenirs. While it was fun to take pictures withe the statue outside, and we did get our license. But the souvenir selection was lacking. There were a couple of shirt designs but the sizes and colors were very limited. Also the person behind the desk didn't seem to like that we were there. I can understand that it might be frustrating that most visitors are more interested in the jackalopes than the trains at a historic train depo and museum but that is no reason to make it an unpleasant...