My (also single) girlfirend and I get a joint annual memebership-$55.00 and both of us use the pass to see the exhibits we like and take new friends with us as a guest. At Christmas we have gone to see the tree for 25years with our children, who are now grown and still go with us to see the tree. There are great art exhibits visual quirky and history/memory exhibits...all well worth more than just the price of admission.

The Pulitzer exhibit that they have there currently is worth the admission alone. This is a very powerful display of photographs that everyone should go see. The rest of the museum is very neat as well with many different train types and local history of the area.

We like old train stations in major cities and have visited stations in NYC, LA, St. Louis, and many more. They are all similar yet different. This one is oustanding. The most unusual thing is that it is incorporated with a small museum. This results in a small admission fee, (We went on $5.00 Tues after 5). The station is nicely restored and features some informative plaques and a few bronze statues of passengers, customers etc. We spent some time in the station and were prepared to leave when we decided to peak into the permanent museum (not the dinosaur show or whatever may be rotating). Pleasant surprise. Small managable museum that had a couple of old trains (not just the locomotive) that you could walk through, a few unusual old vehicles and quite a few displays of western history, mainly 1800s-1940. Great way to spend a couple of hours.