Bonus: Two train clinics offered this year – Dec. 6 and Jan. 3

Do you need help troubleshooting some problems with your model train?

Or maybe you’re wondering how best to care for it?

This year, there are two opportunities to get help with model trains at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums.

Model train enthusiasts will offer a bonus train clinic from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6, to help visitors get their trains ready for Christmas.

Then they’ll offer the annual train clinic at its normal date and time of 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan. 3 the Saturday after New Year’s.

Admission to each clinic is $5 per person ages 6 and older and free for ages 5 and younger. Admission can be purchased at the museum front desk the days of the event.

Veteran model train hobbyists will examine model trains that guests bring in and help them with advice and issues. Those who bring trains to the clinic can also run their trains on the “Hayes Train Special” model train display track. The track fits standard, O-gauge and G-gauge trains.

“The Hayes Train Special” is Hayes Presidential’s annual model train display, where model trains run through a Victorian holiday scene and delight visitors of all ages.

 Visitors and train clinic participants can watch them wind through tunnels and villages in this multi-tiered 12-foot by 24-foot exhibit. They can get involved by pushing buttons that run one of the trains, blow the train whistle and more.

The train clinics and “Hayes Train Special” are part of A Presidential Christmas, a series of holiday events at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. Partial funding for A Presidential Christmas is by Wright Leather Works.

The “Hayes Train Special” is sponsored by Croghan Colonial Bank and The Knight Family.

For information on A Presidential Christmas events, visit https://www.rbhayes.org/news/2025/10/30/general/a-presidential-christmas-all-the-holiday-info-you-need-here/.

Hayes Presidential is America’s first presidential library and the forerunner of the federal presidential library system. It is partially funded by the state of Ohio and affiliated with the Ohio History Connection. Hayes Presidential is located at Spiegel Grove on Buckland Avenue.

For information, call 419-332-2081, or visit rbhayes.org. Like Hayes Presidential on Facebook and follow on Instagram at rbhayespres and on Bluesky at rbhayespres.bsky.social.