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Colorado Model Railroad Museum The Mission of the Colorado Model Railroad Museum is to provide a model railroading experience that e The featured element, a 5,500 sq.
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Colorado Model Railroad Museum, formerly known as Greeley Freight Station Museum, houses America's largest HO Scale prototypical model train layout. The building has 9,500 square feet on the main floor and another 2,000 feet in mezzanine, storage and break room space. foot HO gauge model railroad layout, has ten separate wiring systems, 20+ scale miles of mainline track, hundreds of buildings (many of which have been scratch built), thousands of hand made trees and scenery never before attempted on a model railroad. The layout is configured so that it might operate automatically in a “show” mode (called docent mode), and in manual “operational” mode for train running sessions. The wharf areas feature ships that are fully operational “in the field”, along with a full-scale model of the 729 foot ore carrier, Edmund Fitzgerald. The museum displays over 1,100 railroad artifacts from across the United States. Signals, signs, keys, locks, photos, tools, towels, passes, timetables, lanterns, etc. The largest “artifact” is the last wooden caboose from the Colorado and Southern railroad to be operated on that railroad's system: C&S caboose 10583, which was retired in 1974. The caboose is fully furnished inside and out and is open for public inspection when the museum is open. The museum is located between two actual railroad properties: the Union Pacific on the east and the Great Western on the west, so visitors can also “train watch” during their visit to the museum.

Safety SundayDid you know the weight ratio of a freight train to a car is about 4,000 to 1? It’s no contest. Never try t...
10/11/2026

Safety Sunday

Did you know the weight ratio of a freight train to a car is about 4,000 to 1? It’s no contest. Never try to beat a train.

10/11/2026

Testing~!

10/11/2026

Testing

Gas was 21 cents a gallon. Tune ups were 9 dollars and 25 cents. And Tubby was absolutely living his best life on that r...
10/11/2026

Gas was 21 cents a gallon. Tune ups were 9 dollars and 25 cents. And Tubby was absolutely living his best life on that rooftop.

Welcome to just two of the hundreds of stories hiding inside the Colorado Model Railroad Museum in Greeley. A vintage service station run by the most enthusiastic tiny businessman you have ever seen. A neighborhood grocery store where fresh fruits and vegetables are always on sale and the sidewalk crowd never goes home.

This is 1:87 scale America at its absolute finest and it is waiting for you inside 5500 square feet of miniature world that photographers, families, and first time visitors cannot stop talking about.

Come find your own favorite corner.

OPEN
Monday Thursday Friday Saturday 10 AM to 4 PM
Sunday 12 PM to 4 PM

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away nobody expected to find it on a model railroad layout in Greeley Colorado.But h...
10/10/2026

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away nobody expected to find it on a model railroad layout in Greeley Colorado.

But here we are.

Let us just say that a certain galaxy's most iconic characters are now in 8:87 scale, and have made their way into our world and they look right at home among the trains, canyons, and miniature towns of the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. Can you find them on our Sci Fi scavenger hunt?

We cannot say more than that. You know who you are. You know what you need to do.

Come find them.

OPEN
Saturday 10 AM to 4 PM

Sunday 12 PM to 4 PM

680 10th St Greeley CO

10/09/2026

Friday is the first day of the weekend with a live dispatcher. What kind uncommon activities will this weekend’s dispatcher have to accommodate?

Sci Fi Days at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum runs October 9th through 11th and brings together the magic of science fiction and the wonder of model railroading in a way nobody saw coming. Sci fi themed trains rolling through our incredible layout. Arts and crafts for every age.

Whether you are a lifelong sci fi fan, a family looking for something genuinely unique, or someone who just wants to see what happens when trains meet the cosmos, this is the event for you.

October 9 & 10
10 AM to 4 PM
October 11 12-4
680 10th St Greeley CO

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Every great layout tells stories. Some of them are more complicated than others.Somewhere on the edge of a canyon in our...
10/08/2026

Every great layout tells stories. Some of them are more complicated than others.

Somewhere on the edge of a canyon in our 1:87 scale world a situation has developed. Police cruiser lights flashing. Two officers managing the scene. A group at the picnic table keeping a very low profile. A no dumping sign that clearly was not enough of a deterrent. And those tires did not roll themselves down here.

This is one tiny drama playing out in one tiny corner of 5500 square feet of miniature world at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum in Greeley. Every visit reveals a new scene. Every scene has a story.

How many have you found?

OPEN
Monday Thursday Friday Saturday 10 AM to 4 PM
Sunday 12 PM to 4 PM

680 10th St Greeley CO

10/07/2026

Trains. Aliens. Arts and crafts. October 9th through 11th in Greeley.

Sci Fi Days at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum is three days of out of this world fun featuring sci fi themed trains on our layout, arts and crafts for the whole family.

Ready to explore? We will see you there.

October 9 through 11
10 AM to 4 PM
680 10th St Greeley CO

Even 1:87 scale worlds need cleaning and maintenance. Tuesdays and Wednesdays we are closed. Our awesome volunteers are ...
10/07/2026

Even 1:87 scale worlds need cleaning and maintenance.

Tuesdays and Wednesdays we are closed. Our awesome volunteers are hard at work cleaning every scale mile piece of track, deep cleaning sections of the layout, and performing maintenance to keep this world running.

The museum has been open to the public since 2009 and the volunteers are what has kept it going this long! We are grateful for all the hard work and time spent on the layout.

Address

680 10th Street
Greeley, CO
80631

Opening Hours

Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

Telephone

(970) 392-2934

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