When my son was a wee little boy, he was obsessed with trains. He decided to enter this world after a bumpy ride on the London Tube - and his first excursions into the world were via the Central Line. Later, when we moved to Chicago, our first apartment as a family overlooked the Metra train: each time it passed was a cause for celebration and the perfect excuse to end a nap.
He still likes trains at age seven - though Thomas and Friends no longer travel our floors with their smiling faces.
If you've got a train obsessed child on your hands, check out the first-ever National Train Day at Chicago's Union Station on Saturday, May 10th. Celebrate all things trains with train driving simulators, train model displays, facepainting, juggling, balloon artists, stilt walkers, trackless train rides and more. Consider taking !!!the train!!! right into Union Station to jam-pack your day even more with...TRAINS!