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Texas Transportation Museum
11731 Wetmore Road, San Antonio, TX 78247
(210)490-3554

Come ride the rails of Texas!

School & Organized Group Visits

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Education is the main purpose of the Museum. We are open every Thursday and Friday mainly so organized school groups can visit the museum. Other groups, such as from day cares, or churches, are very welcome, too. It is very important to book such groups in advance, to make sure we have enough docents available. Its hard to calculate the educational value the children will get from their visit. It'll be some of the most cost effective dollars you will ever spend on their education.

Weekday School Group Visits

The museum has a well thought out tour for every age group. They will be given a guided tour of the museum by knowledgeable docents, who will provide age appropriate information as they show the museum to group members.

The cost is only $3.00 per child! Teachers and chaperones free!

(To ensure we cover our costs, however, there is a $60.00 minimum per group.)

Weekend Group Rates

TTM welcomes groups on the weekends as well. From boy scouts to bus tours, y'all are welcome!

Because such groups are more social in nature than purely educational, TTM does not provide tour guides and docents on the weekend. Once you are on the property you are free to roam our forty acre site and ride the train at your own pace.

The cost is only $3.00 per person, with no minimum group size!

We do ask that only one person comes to the ticket office to pay for the whole group. For folks arriving in buses this should not be a probelm as the tour leader will be in charge. For groups gathering at the museum from individual vehicles, folks can either come in one by one and pay regular admission or, to get the reduced rate, nominate one person to make a head count and pay for everyone at once. This person will then be issued with admission stickers to be issued to group members plus walking tours that describe the museum's collection with a map to show where everything is.

TTM provides an educational experience you won't find in any book or computer!

Train rides are included in admission, except for really small weekday groups. For many youngsters, this will be their very first train ride. Reading about railroads in books or on the internet cannot compare with the real live experience of riding the rails or seeing a genuine traditional depot and walking through old fashioned passenger cars that became sleepers at night as even what we consider to be relatively short journeys today sometimes took days in days gone by.

There is a great deal to be gained from breaking away from the confines of the class room and experiencing what you are learning about first hand. Travel by railroad is no longer a regular experience for the majority of us and yet they were so instrumental in making this country what it is today. Our docents will take the time to guide groups through our huge facility and give your students an incomparable educational experience.

Not only did the railroads open up the western frontiers, and move countless millions of people and tons of material, they created many characteristics of modern life we take for granted now, like standardized time. They were also at the very beginnings of the telecommunications era. Telegraph wires followed the railroads and made instant communication across the continent a reality with very efficient telegram services.

Of course, we have other exhibits too, including our automobiles, fire trucks and horse carriages. We have several operating model railroad layouts which provide children with a stimulating perspective on the size and scope of what railroads still do for the country. One of the layouts is a large scale outdoor operation which again gives your students an opportunity to be outside while still learning.

To make a booking or for more information, please call us during
regular business hours on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at:

(210) 490-3554
For additional information about groups tours at TTM except availability or bookings

click: Group Information

PLEASE NOTE QUESTIONS ABOUT AVAILABILITY CANNOT BE ANSWERED BY E-MAIL
AS THE WEBMASTER DOES NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE BOOKING DIARY AT HOME.

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A Word About Safety

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Everyone at Texas Transportation Museum wants your visit to be a pleasant one. But we also care that it is a safe experience, too. Railroads, by their very nature, are both fascinating and dangerous. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP A TRAIN QUICKLY. Even going at the slow speed we use at the museum, even in an emergency, a train will travel many more feet than a car would at the same speed. In addition, it is simply not possible for the engineer to see everything that is happening "behind" the train.

PLEASE HELP US TO KEEP OUR VERY SUCCESSFUL ACCIDENT PREVENTION RECORD BY FOLLOWING THIS IMPORTANT RULE :

KEEP OFF THE TRACKS AT ALL TIMES!

Keep an eye on your kids. Don't let them wander off on their own. Keep them away from the tracks and from the roads. We try to keep our exhibits out where you can see them, but much of it is both rare and easily damaged.

Please keep small hands away, so everything and everyone is safe.

Site Navigation & Links

Many of the pages below will have sub-directories of their own.

•Main Page•
•Hours of Operation & Location•
•The Longhorn & Western Railroad•
•S.A.G.R.E.S. - San Antonio Garden Railroad Society•
•TTM'S Road Vehicle Collection;
•A.M.R.E. - Alamo Model Railroad Engineers•
•The Longhorn Chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society•
•Private Parties at TTM•
•School & Private Group Visits•
•Santa's Holiday Depot;
•Big Engines, Small Engines•
•History of San Antonio Transportation•
•Links to Other Related Web Sites, Books, Videos, Etc•
•Contacting the Museum;