Events and Activities : Talking about Trains July 27 at the Center Point Depot Museum

"Talking About Trains,"

Center Point Depot Museum

2 p.m., Sun. July 27

Need a "safe" conversation topic these touchy times? The Center Point Historical Society has found one-TRAINS.

Everybody likes trains. So there's a free, informal program about local Interurban and Rock Island railroad history Sunday, July 27, at 2 p.m. at the Depot Museum, 700 E. Washington in Center Point.

Come join in the train talk at the 1914 W.C. F. & N. electric interurban railroad depot. Linn County Conservation owns it now as part of the Cedar Valley Nature Trail. The depot has housed the Center Point Historical Society museum for more than 25 years.

The building is on the National Register of Historic Places, thanks to the Conservation Department, which is also having restoration work done on the former mechanical room of the depot this summer.

The Depot Museum is open Sundays 2-5 through October, and by appointment. Admission is free.