The B&O Railroad Museum welcomes all aboard the annual Magical Holiday Express! The spectacular celebration in the B&O Roundhouse is devoted to trains of all sizes and shapes with holiday festivities and a winter wonderland of family fun and activities. View model trains, walk through a 30-foot Christmas tree, take a train ride, create ornaments and decorations, enjoy live entertainment and special appearances, and much more. There is something to see and do every day at this annual holiday event!
Magical Holiday Express at the B&O Railroad Museum
Where: 901 West Pratt Street | Baltimore, MD
When: Mon-Sat 10am – 4pm/Sun 11am – 4pm through December 31
Admission: $20/adult, $17/senior, $12/age 2-12 (train rides are extra)
Giveaway: For a chance to win Admission for 4 to the B&O Railroad Museum’s Magical Holiday Express, simply leave a comment below telling me your family’s favorite holiday tradition. Get an extra chance to win by entering on the KidFriendly DC Facebook Page, too! This giveaway will run through Thursday, December 13, 2018, then TWO winners will be drawn at random and notified shortly thereafter. Good luck!
One of our favorite traditions is going to the Wolf Trap Holiday Sing-a-long. Also, making cookies, of course!
Gaylord National!
Chinese food and a movie, and cold hike through the local trails.
Visiting Santa!
Our favorite tradition is opening one present each day for the five days leading up to Christmas
Skyping with grandparents while cooking holiday dinner.
Hallmark Channel Christmas movies…as many/often as humanly possible.
Since we moved four years ago from Puerto Rico, we connect with our family during the holiday by Skyping with them while we cook Christmas dinner or decorate the tree. This makes us feel connected in the distance!
Making sugar cookies and decorating them super pretty to give out to teachers, neighbors, the mail lady etc.
Cutting down our Christmas tree in Middleburg!
Our favorite tradition is picking out our Christmas tree and decorating it together!
We do an activity advent calendar – every day the kids see what we will do (like bake cookies for others, go look at Christmas lights, make a craft, watch a holiday movie).
Every year before Thanksgiving we go tag our Christmas tree then my daughter and husband pick it up and we listen to holiday music as we decorate.
We go caroling to a local retirement home and then drive around, spotting Christmas lights.
Every year we buy walnuts, crack them carefully so we could have two shells then we put wishes inside and then glue two pieces with red string back together. And hang all the walnut ornaments on our Christmas tree. And after Christmas dinner we pick any walnut from the tree and get a random wish for the year! It’s so much fun! Have a wonderful holidays!
Christmas Eve children’s mass.
Opening advent calendars together every morning!
Our favorite family tradition is sitting in front of our fireplace as a family telling stories.
Zoo lights!
Advent calendar
Christmas mass even though my three children never sit still but I do love the music, the flowers, the smell, the quiet at times and the community. I love seeing the awe in their face when everyone breaks out in song and it is such a lasting memory.
We decorate the tree and watch Xmas movies!
Our favorite tradition is decorating the tree while singing Christmas songs and ending it with hot coco.
Our families favorite holiday tradition is celebrating Santa Lucia.
My girls ❤️ celebrating St Nicholas Day, and new this year – ice skating! We’ve been every weekend since Thanksgiving. Love your blog!
Our favorite holiday tradition is the train exhibit at the Botanical Gardens in DC. We would love to add the B&O exhibit to our list!
baking cookies and going to see a light show.
Singing Christmas songs
Taking my grandchildren to a Christmas musical performance !
We love baking and decorating Christmas cookies, and listening to Christmas music while we trim the tree!
Seeing the model train display at the botanical gardens
Seeing garden of lights at brookside garden!
Decorating the tree
Our recent holiday tradition is to go to B&O Railroad Museum for their Christmas model trains display!
Our favorite tradition is a family walk complete with toddler and dog!
Gathering with friends on Christmas eve
Visiting flat iron farm in our hometown
We love making cookies for Santa and going to see the neighborhood lights with the grandparents.
This is going to sound strange but our favorite tradition is actually eating Pakistani food (Ravi Kabob in Arlington!) on Christmas Day. My daughter was born on Christmas Eve, and we had Ravi in the break room at the hospital on Christmas Day. 🙂
Favorite family holiday traditions: doing a big puzzle with family over the course of several days, and eating oyster stew for breakfast on Christmas day (yea… stew for breakfast).
Our favorite tradition is visiting Santa!
We love to go out and see Christmas lights and have fun decorating our house too.
watching the Nutcracker!
Our favorite holiday tradition is spanding time with family.
One our favorite traditions is riding around in our car in our pjs looking at lights. Last year we left treats for our favorite houses.
Baking and decorating cookies with the kids!
Visiting Christmas lights
Cutting down our Christmas tree, and seeing the trains at Brookside Gardens
A big Christmas morning breakfast with extended family
We mainly celebrate Christmas by all sharing one gift and spending the day together as a family. Our Christmas consist more of an experience and sharing than of consumerism and we would love the B&O railroad wxperience
We love to drive through the Festival of Lights at Watkins Park and end the evening watching Polar Express while drinking hot chocolate 😊
Our family celebrate from Christmas eve thru Christmas day. We pray at 12:01am and open presents after praying. After opening presents we eat “dinner”- usually the main dish is turkey. And go to bed around 3AM after eating, playing and dancing- Hispanic way….. On Christmas Day we celebrate again – American Way…
Blasting Christmas music (preferably Mariah Carey) and making cookies and salt dough ornaments!
Wolf Trap Sing Along
Baking cookies
Baking cookies, decorating and listening to Christmas music & driving around to see Christmas lights!
Eating “seven fishes” on Christmas Eve
Our favorite tradition is hanging up Christmas ornaments (some were 40 years old)
Cutting down our own tree
Getting the Christmas tree and decorating it as a family is one of my favorite traditions!
Being together
We always decorate the house and visit as many Christmas displays and events as we can.
“Building edible gingerbread houses with my grandchildren……lots of love and laughter.
Our favorite tradition is going to the Christmas Eve service at the National Cathedral.
We decorate x_mas tree and bake cookies . Family get together and watch comedy movies.
Botanic Garden trains
Big meals
Our favorite tradition is driving around the neighborhood, cookies and cocoa in hand, and checking out all the lights and decorations while listening to Christmas music.
Making cookies and watching Christmas movies
Just a quiet Christmas at home for our little family.
Goodmorning!
Our favorite holiday family tradition is wearing PJ’s with Santa/Elf hats out to breakfast.(people love to take pics with us) Have a day of xmas music and just being together. I would love to take him on a train ride! My son loves to help bake. I bake & he decorates. My son is 7 and I have MS, as bad as I want to take him to the zoo lights that would require I limit myself due to how much the cold effects me in so many ways. I would love for him to go back to school after winter break with something to tell his peers. He is doing so amazing in school. I am so blessed and grateful to GOD. Thank you for this opportunity, totally worth a shot. Merry Christmas🙏🎄
Christmas Eve box, matching PJs and movies!
We lost an important relative on Thanksgiving, so it is more necessary than ever for us to be family focused. While every Christmas we visit relatives and exchange gifts, this Christmas I would like to engage the children and I into a church charity. I think it is never to early to start new traditions and I can use this experience to teach the importance of giving back and to hopefully provide needed healing as well.
national harbor
Decorating the tree together