The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum is an excellent place for families to visit year-round. A 40-acre historic site containing locomotives, rolling stock, and documents that record the development of early railroading, the museum also has many weekly children’s programs and annual family-friendly events. Children will be delighted in watching toy trains make their way through the G-scale garden layout, and from April through December train rides are available to all. The B&O’s weekly Toddler Time offers stories with classic railroad children’s books. In December, families look forward to the month-long Holiday Festival of Trains, and come spring families hurry to purchase tickets to the annual Day Out With Thomas event, where young children and their parents take a 25-minutes ride with Thomas the Tank Engine, meet Sir Topham Hat, and enjoy storytelling and live music.