Bellingham Railway Museum

They had four trains that were operable and some educational info around the space. Also two wood train train tables. The Lionel train set has two buttons that kids can push to operate the trains. The larger train set is remote operated and allowed to be operated by kids who are 7 and up. Considering the number of trains I didn’t think it would interest my five year old for long but we were there for about two hours and only left because I gave her a time limit. They also have a large library of books to look through. Parking is street parking for two hours but it is free for most of December after 1:00pm. Admission was $ 4 for me and $ 2 for my daughter.

Needs some cleaning. But has good play area for smaller kids lots of wooden trains and tracks for smaller kids and toddlers. It was dead there. Better marketing to mny groups might bring in more people and money and interest in trains from an early age.

I’ve always been a fan of model railroads, so when I stumbled onto the existence of the Bellingham Railway Museum, I knew I had to stop in and check it out.
It’s not a large place, but they have some interesting historical exhibits, as well as a nice model train layout complete with detailed landscaping, and two trains actively circling through the layout.
There are also some toy trains stuff in the back area, I’m assuming this is for little kids that come in that need to be occupied.
There is a $ 4.00 suggested donation — which I happily paid. $ 4.00 is a small amount to enjoy their train set up and historical exhibits. I was offered the opportunity to pilot the trains around the tracks — but I declined. I was content to watch and observe.
Definitely come in here and take your time to read through the exhibits and enjoy the trains!

I sort of felt like I was making a donation to the old man’s model railroad club charity more than paying admission to a museum, but for only four bucks, it’s worth stopping in if you’re looking for something to do. This is a very small place, but they do cram in a fair amount of things into it — some historical background on the train system in Bellingham, a few old artifacts from that railroad past, and a couple of model railroad setups, some of which you can operate yourself. There is a small, but nice library of related books for a variety of ages.
I think the best activity for this museum is, as they advertise, a place to throw a children’s birthday party, it’s definitely a fabulous place to do that for a small to medium size group of kids (over age 6 would probably be best). There are a few toys for very young children set up.

FUN.
This place is a train loving boys dream museum. Most places you can watch train set ups, the men running the trains don’t let you try it out — here they do. They want you to run the trains & check everything out.
There is a huge track w/​sawmill & tons of scenes (inc. Dorothy & flying monkey’s in the trees) & a smaller set that the kids can actually control.
There is also a train driving simulator, antique trains & railroad memorabilia.
The man running the place was great, very friendly & encourages the kids to play & have fun.
If you have a train obsessed kid — take him here.