If you’ve got a love of trains, extra time and extra money, you should head on down to EnterTRAINment Junction, north of Cincinnati. They say they have the world’s largest indoor train display and I don’t doubt that. The display goes on and on and on – for two miles of tracks, in fact. It’s only going to get more impressive, too, as one of the signs says the display is only 60% done (more animation and features like subways are coming). They try to make the experience interactive, with several “scavenger hunts” you can try. There’s more, too — a big play area for kids, a cafe, a railroading museum and tons of railroad and Thomas the Train stuff to buy. Even more — a whole other section (separate admission or you can buy a combo ticket) — that changes according to the season. For the holidays, they have a short, interactive walking tour reenactment of “Scrooge” as well as a journey to the North Pole ( if you can find your way through a maze of mirrors and recover from the dizziness of a spinny tunnel you walk through). There’s also a nicely done Winter Wonderland display you can walk in for free — but I don’t think there’s any way you could bring someone to see that without them wanting to see the whole complex. The whole thing was so impressive that my son, who was never much interested in trains, now wants to start building a mega setup in our home. Even my husband was eyeing the trains for sale in the hobby shop a little too closely. I hate to be the one to break it to them but, after seeing the price tags on the trains and accessories (yikes!), EnterTRAINment Junction is the closest these boys will get to a megasetup in their lifetime!
