Holiday Events 2013

2 Holiday Events and Extended Hours!

Holiday Open House with Parade of Lights

Saturday, November 30th

The Museum will be open from 10am -4pm
Santa will be handing out jingle bells to all the good little girls and boys who visit!
The museum is also part of the Greeley Downtown Shopping Scavenger Hunt.  You can pick up a game sheet at the museum or any shops in the downtown area
Don't miss the 5pm Parade of Lights on 9th Avenue from 16th Street to 7th Street that ends at Lincoln Park for the Lighting Ceremony!

Holiday Night Spectacular

Friday, December 20th. 5-8pm

Come see the museum decorated in Holiday Night Splendor...
There will be music, treats, and trains, trains, trains!!!
Santa will be on hand to hear those last minute Christmas requests.
Admission is $5 for all ages.

Extended Museum Hours!

The museum will be open during the school break daily from December 20th - January 5th with the exception of Christmas and New Years Day.  Come see us!

RIO GRANDE DAYS!!!

October 25th and 26th the museum will be featuring all Rio Grande trains with special guests the Rio Grande Modeling and Historic Society. 

Summer Events at GFSM!

July Events at GFSM:

Open July 4th - 10am-4pm

Gold Rush Days - Friday - Saturday, July 12-13th
Try out the museum's new working telegraph machines and bring the kids for some gold panning fun!

UP844 - July 18th, 20th, and 21st - Catch the Union Pacific 844 as it stops just outside the museum during it's run to and from Cheyenne Frontier Days.  Want to ride? Go to www.cheyennedepotmuseum.org to buy tickets on the Sunday train.  Train schedule can be found at www.upsteam.com

Star Wars Day - Saturday, July 27th
Hunt for Star Wars characters in our eye spy game and meet costumed characters in the museum throughout the day.

August Events at GFSM:

Steam Train Weekend - Friday - Saturday, August 9-10th
The OC&E railroad layout will be showcasing steam trains all weekend long!

Senior Weekend - Friday - Sunday, August 23-25th
Sponsored by the 50+ Marketplace News
Seniors will receive $2 off admission all weekend long!

Holiday Schedule 2012

Start a new Family Tradition this year by attending a Holiday Event at the Greeley Freight Station Museum.  The Christmas Break schedule begins on Friday, December 21st with a special evening event that will include Christmas music, Holiday Treats and Trains, Trains, Trains!  This event will be from 5pm-8pm and admission is $5/person for all ages.

Extended Museum hours for the Winter Break are posted on the front page of the website.  The museum will be open from Friday, Dec. 21st through Monday, December 31st with the exception of Christmas Day. 

The Museum will be open on Christmas Eve - what a great family tradition to start. Come see the trains and then spend the evening at home with family.

K99 Morning Guys visit GFSM!

Brian Gary and Todd Harding of K99 radio visited GFSM and wrote a nice Blog about the museum on their site.  You can check it out here:

http://k99.com/greeley-freight-station-museum/

100,000 Volunteer Hours!!!

In an existence rife with “firsts,” and “milestones” and “one-of-a-kinds” our museum hit another standard of excellence on Saturday, April 7, 2012, as volunteers recorded their 100,000^th hour at the museum since its
ground-breaking ceremony back in the fall of 2003.

        The event was celebrated at 11:15 a.m. by a cake-cutting after the Oregon, California and Eastern Railway operations were brought to a 15-minute temporary halt to commemorate this unique accomplishment.  The museum was open to the public at the time, so visitors were also treated to piece of cake and history.  An operation crew of 32 was on hand for the surprise event and was typical of the number of operators required to allow the massive 22.5 scale mile HO scale railroad to run efficiently and prototypically.

        “You never think of milestones like this when you first start out,” Dave Trussell, designer and builder of the miniature railroad said after the event.  “We’ve gone from nailing a couple of boards together to a project that can be run via CTC, or individually, or by utilizing the finest model railroad computer system in existence,” he said. 

        Typical of what is becoming a Saturday tradition at the museum, the 32 volunteers represented 14 separate communities in Colorado and Wyoming.  More than 88 of these folks are on the museum’s qualified engineer list and a whopping 280 have volunteered at the project over the years. 

GFSM Visitors Post Record Attendance in January 2012!

GFSM got some great news this week: January paid attendance figures jumped more than 200% over the same month last year.

        We’ve experienced a sizable jump in numbers and everyone is running around here with huge grins these days.  Figures for January 2012 totaled 1,443 paid visitors with approximately 80% coming from areas outside of Greeley/Evans.  Last year’s monthly attendance was 554 with about 15% coming from Greeley proper. The museum attracted more than 15,000 paid visitors in 2011, another record for our attraction.

        Our popular non-profit, privately-funded museum will celebrate its third anniversary this coming Memorial Day weekend and we will continue to feature one of the world’s largest, continuous HO scale miniature railroads.

        Michelle added that she just completed a successful trip to Texas to the American Bus Association and is expecting national bus tours to begin scheduling Greeley as a stopping point in the summer of 2013.  “We’re excited about the bus prospects and we’re putting together a 15-20 minute promotional film for bus companies to show their guests as buses approach Greeley for visits.”  Jim Inglis is heading up the museum’s “production company” which will turn out the film.