Celebrating the 140th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike of the transcontinental railroad between the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific.
Features this year include:
Amtrak Superliner equipment on tour!
Exhibits! Florida Coalition of Rail Passengers,
National Association of Railroad Passengers,
Friends of Tampa Union Station, Tampa Bay History Center, TBARTA, HART, TECO Line Streetcar, Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library/Burgert Bros. Collection, Operation Lifesaver/CSX, City of Tampa, Amtrak, Florida Railroad Museum and ACL & SAL Railroads Historical Society
Operating Model Railroads! HO scale display from the Suncoast Model Railroad Club and an N scale modular display from Plant City Historical Society
Live music! "Bad with Names" rock band
Special guests! Tampa Bay Lightning Girls and Thunderbug, Radio Disney remote
With a special reading of the poem "Epic of Union Station" by Tampa's Poet Laureate James Tokley
And much much more!
FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
FREE ADMISSION
Click on link below to see pictures from last years NTD http://www.flickr.com/photos/26476957@N03/
National Train Day Main Website: http://www.nationaltrainday.com