Train and toy show returns to Monroeville Convention Center

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Train and toy show returns to Monroeville Convention Center

Michael DiVittorio | Wednesday, January 2, 2019 7:04 p.m.

The Greenberg Train and Toy Show to pull into the Monroeville Convention Center for a 2-day stop Jan. 5-6. The event has become a tradition over the years for families and train enthusiasits thoughout the Tri-State Area. In November, Roger Schneider, with the Pittsburgh S Guagers, shows young Liam Herrmann of Plum how trains made stops at the station to pick up mail bags. Schneider is a resident of Murrysville.

Thousands of model train and locomotive enthusiasts are expected to pull in to the station that is the Monroeville Convention Center this weekend.

Greenberg’s Great Train & Toy Show returns to 209 Mall Blvd. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

It’s one of the largest and longest running model train and collectible toy shows in the country, and typically comes to Monroeville three weekends a year.

The show was last in Monroeville in November. It featured eight operating train displays and more than 100 vendors. Between 3,000 to 4,000 people attended.

Some displays featured a North Pole Express or a Santa Express complete with a winter scene.

Pittsburgh S-Gaugers had an interactive train display with buttons children used to activate whistles, catch a mail bag, dump lumber and load coal.

Admission is $10 on Saturday and $9 Sunday. Children 11 and younger get in free. Parking is free.

More information is available at trainshow.com/monroeville01.

Michael DiVittorio is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Michael at 412-871-2367, mdivittorio@tribweb.com or via Twitter @MikeJdiVittorio.

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