Additional Information

Please be on time in order to get tours underway. As the museum is located in Fair Park, take advantage of the vast grassy areas to have a picnic lunch and explore the rest of the Park.

The Museum is mostly an outdoor museum. Please ensure that students dress appropriately for the weather. No open-toed shoes. Some climbing of stairways is involved, thus limiting accessibility. Restroom facilities are not available.

Museum Rules

The locomotives, cars, and other artifacts in the museum are rare and valuable. Climbing, touching, and handling of equipment is not permitted, except where access is provided.

No food or beverages are allowed aboard the train.

Please do not handle window shades in the cars. Please do not sit or stand on seats.

Planning Your Trip to the Museum

To make your field trip both educational and enjoyable, we recommend that you prepare your students before their visit to the museum and review your students afterward.

Please review the Educational Guides that the Museum has prepared. Many activities can be done before or after the tours.

Dallas owes its growth and prosperity to the coming of the railroads. See and explore the trains that helped build our city and the nation. The Museum of the American Railroad offers an interpretive display which includes Dallas' oldest depot, once the center of activity in the young little town, and the Big Boy, the largest steam locomotive ever built. The Museum has been preserved in a hands-on interpretive history museum for students of all ages.

Students will get a first-hand look at luxurious Pullman sleeping cars, plush lounge cars, streamlined passenger trains and mighty steam locomotives. Several rare and unique examples of early diesel-electric locomotives are also represented in this walk through exhibit. Instead of finding a collection of artifacts behind glass, you will actually become part of the setting as you climb aboard full size historic trains.

For booking, please contact Art Reach at 214-219-2049 (all year). Teachers receive an Educational Guide with each booked tour. Please provide the teacher's e-mail address upon booking to receive the Educational Guide.

Available Wednesday-Friday between 10:30 am and 3 pm. $3.00 per student; $3.00 per adult; one FREE adult for every 15 students. Tours last 45 minutes.

15 minimum, 100 students maximum

All schools, day cares, and other educational institutions are required to schedule tours at least two weeks in advance. If you are unable to keep your reservation, please cancel at least 48 hours in advance. Please note that our Museum does not have public restrooms.

Bells & Whistles Tours (Grades PreK - 5) A comprehensive tour of our exhibits and our most popular!  Click here for a sample Educator's Guide.

Westward Expansion & the Transcontinental Railroad (Grades 3 - 9) Understanding what moved people to go West - figuratively  and literally!

The Golden Age of Rail Travel (Grades 6 - 9) Fancy travel and great struggles on the rails during the first half of the 20th century!

Train Technologies (Grades 3-8) Discover what makes these immense machines move!

By appointment only, please contact the museum at 214-428-0101.

Available Saturdays and Sundays, 10:30 am to 4:30 pm.

$7.00 per adult, $3.00 per child, under 3 free, plus $30.00 for the guided tour.

Group of 15 minimum. Payment due upon arrival.