Model Train Clinic 2025

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

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

Model train enthusiasts can help at the Model Train Clinic at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. The clinic is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, in the museum auditorium.

Admission is $5 per person ages 6 and older. Kids ages 5 and younger are admitted for free. Tickets can be purchased at the museum front desk the day of the event or online below. 

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 clinic is 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.

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.

Tickets are non-refundable