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Location
Accessibility
Restrooms available in museum building, water faucets for washing hands, benches along paths, covered seating areas and pavilion
Visitor tip
Plan your visit to catch the live train pass-through around 4-4:30pm, which adds a special highlight to your experience. The station is still an active Amtrak stop for the City of New Orleans, making this a unique opportunity to see working trains in action.
Visitor tip
Bring a picnic lunch and take advantage of the free admission and newly installed pavilion with covered seating. This venue is specifically designed for families to combine education with outdoor recreation and dining.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Railroad Museum & Historic Park
- Highlights
- Historic steam engine, rolling stock, train-shaped playground, history-engraved stepping stones
- Admission
- Free
- Special Feature
- Amtrak City of New Orleans train passes 4-4:30pm daily
What visitors say
We absolutely loved our time at the Railroad Museum. The people who volunteer their time are such excellent guides. You can tell they are very knowledgeable and love what they do. You can go through as fast or as slow as you want. It's…
You can visit anytime, it’s a park. There is a darling plays cape with a slide, it’s shaped like a train, and the covered seating area for adults watching their kids looks like a little train station waiting area.
This is a simple but fun lil park we take our kids too and it has so much history to be learned here but its also a beautiful scenery for photo shooting!!! You can do what I call “the walk of history”, there are stepin stones that has…
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Did You Know?
- The station remains an active stop for Amtrak's City of New Orleans, a long-distance passenger train route, making it a functioning transportation hub alongside its museum operations
- The museum features a historic 'Walk of History' with engraved granite stepping stones documenting the evolution from railroad operations to local and Mississippi history
- The original McComb railroad depot was destroyed by arson but the museum preserves its history through exhibits and artifacts including a steam engine and Illinois Central rolling stock
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