Events & Exhibits
TVRM Railfest
For its 50th anniversary, TVRM will host the TVRM Railfest on Labor Day weekend, 2011. The festival will be our biggest party ever, featuring multiple operating steam engines, visiting locomotives and equipment, special musical acts, storytelling, arts and crafts, a hobo camp and more. Ticket price includes unlimited train rides on TVRM’s “local” line and full access to daytime events. Evening concert, dining car, food vendors and special rail excursions are extra.
TVRM Railcamp
T
he most important aspect of historic preservation is passing on the knowledge, skills and passion to a younger generation. In that effort, TVRM hosts Railcamp each summer to provide high school-aged young people the opportunity to get hands-on experience in the realm of saving our nation’s rail history.
Campers will learn about railroad operations, help in the restoration of one of TVRM’s historic cars or locomotives, help prepare the local train for service, ride in the locomotive cab, and learn much more about an industry that helped shape our country.
TVRM Railcamp 2011 will be June 20-25. Call 423-894-8028 ext. 13 to check availability and pricing.
Seasonal Exhibit – 2011: Fifty Years of Steam in the Valley
As part of TVRM’s 50th anniversary celebration, we will premier our latest temporary exhibit: “Fifty Years of Steam in the Valley,” featuring the photography of John W. Coniglio as well as artifacts from TVRM’s history. Visitors will learn about the creation of TVRM in 1961 and the role it played in preserving a vanishing industry and a vanishing way of life. The exhibit will be upstairs in the Grand Junction depot from August 12 until November 5, 2011.