Hello, while in York this weekend, I have about 1 hour that my wife & I could spend at the RR museum. Is this too little time to see much of anything ? Thks, Rich
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Well, you certainly won't see it all in that time! However, you could see some cool stuff in that time. I'm guessing you haven't been there before?
@gunrunnerjohn posted:Well, you certainly won't see it all in that time! However, you could see some cool stuff in that time. I'm guessing you haven't been there before?
John, it’s been a long time, maybe 30 years.
@trestleking posted:John, it’s been a long time, maybe 30 years.
Quite a bit has changed in 30 years! 
1 hour isn't a lot of time to fully enjoy the collection, especially if you include the 2nd floor displays and the outdoor collection items. However, it might be enough time to decide you want to come back and enjoy it more thoroughly.
Rich, that is only enough time to watch the model train layout and then leave. A bunch of years back I planned a weekend with my brother, sister, and my two nieces(sister's) in which we got out to Strasburg some time between 11 & 12. The reason for our visit was next door at the Strasburg Railroad, and our tickets were for I want to say around 3:30-4, I can't remember.
We spent the time at the museum until I want to say just after 2, and we did take our time looking at some things in depth, others just a quick read. We had lunch at the Cafe at the railroad, which was pretty good(I've had several meals there mostly lunch, but coffee is good).
I made sure to get our tickets well before our ride on the rails behind #90(I did that before lunch). This way if we took too much time eating, I wouldn't have to worry about the tickets one bit(I ordered online, showed print out to get tickets). With what time we had left I went back over to the museum's gift shop. If we had time we would have hit the Toy Train Museum as well, but I took too much time in the gift shop.
In short to do all of that takes a good mind for time and planning. I've popped out to Strasburg RR as well as the museum during York week(Wednesday museum, Friday when 611 at the RR), and even spent some time at the RR on Saturday. The bottom line is unless you want to speed walk/run through the museum, it is better to take your time. I've chatted with some of the staff a few times as well as other York goers, and that alone(25-30 minutes) was worth it's weight in gold. Take time if possible, and hour is not enough time to take anything in unless you're stuck in an indecisive mode about what gift to get.
Yep, last time I was there we spent about three hours. The guys I went with hadn't been there before, and they were taking lots of pictures. We could have spent more time, but we had fun. We also had another place to hit on the way home.
