5-2-2025
This weekend the East Troy Electric Railroad Museum opens
for the 2025 regular season. They will run the trolley on Saturdays for the
first month and expand that to Friday through Sunday in the summer. This is
relevant because the newest experience pass available at the library is a
family pass for the Railroad.
Our pass is a Family +2 pass, meaning it allows six people
entry and rides on the trolley on regular operation days. That means it
excludes their special events such as the Santa train and the dinner trains.
The 2025 schedule is posted in the library, although mainly for the staff’s
convenience so you’ll need to ask for its location. Like the other experience
passes, the checkout period is three days with no holds.
Given the limited days they are open, it should never be
checked out on a Sunday when we are closed or a Monday when it would be due
before the museum is open again. That means Tuesday checkouts for the Friday
train and Wednesday or later for the Saturday or Sunday trains. All experience
passes may be returned using the outside book drop when the library is closed
in order to avoid late fines.
Here’s an open secret. Any materials found in the book drop
when we open the library at 10:00 am are checked in as though they were
returned the last day we were open. Hence a pass (or book or movie) due on
Saturday may actually be returned on Sunday without the hefty $50 late fine. Of
course, that doesn’t work for the fishing poles or telescope as they can’t be
returned via the book drop.
This pass, like the one for the Mitchell Park Domes and the
destination I cannot name in an article or social media post but can post a
sign for on the library windows, are all courtesy of the Friends of the East
Troy Lions Public Library and anyone who successfully bid on a live auction
basket at the fall play. Those bidders enjoyed the wine, cheese or cheesecake
while the rest of us enjoy the passes literally at their expense. So thank you
to all of them as well.
Speaking of the Domes, the trains have left the Show Dome.
Last weekend the spring exhibit began which I have it on good authority
features every color hydrangea imaginable. Miss Maria tells us it smells
divine.
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