The Chocolate, Railway & Music Festival takes place July 21, 22, Saturday & Sunday throughout the whole town of Smiths Falls. At the Smiths Falls Railway Museum, we've got a whole line-up of railways, music (but only a bit of chocolate).
There will be some layouts (Z, N, HO, G), handcar and speeder rides, some demos, and lots of railway music.
Saturday features Dominic D'Arcy, the singing policeman, with some of his up-and-coming young stars (Alanis Morrisette used to be one of them). Performances at 11:00 am and 1:30 pm.
Sunday features Ottawa Valley Country Music Hall of Famer, Tom Wilson, and Border Bluegrass with bluegrass gospel music at 11:00 am and sweet bluegrass at 1:30 pm.
We'll have the engineers of CP Rail in attendance and you can ask them all of those questions you never had the chance to ask or were afraid to ask.
On the east side of town in the CP Rail yard (we've got signs to get you from the Museum to the yard), CP Rail will have some of their heavy-haul freight locomotives on display. You can climb up into the cab and sit in the engineer's seat, ask more questions, and kick the tires... er ... wheels.
Regular admissions of $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and students, $2 for children (under 3 free) apply for both days.
So, plan to come out and join us!
Bob M.