Special Guests: The 4-H Inventors

Members of the 4-H Inventors club will showcase their new Rube Goldberg machine at the Open House. They competed in the Rube Goldberg Middle School competition and won 1st place this year!

They will also share a giant harmonograph (similar to a spirograph), with pendulums on all three axes, and other projects they made this year, including a Lightsaber (custom design).

The Inventors also build a float for the Montgomery County Fair Parade and this year they won Champion Float or Walking group.

The Inventors are always looking for new members. They meet once a month plus separately to work on the Rube Goldberg machine. Please contact hamblin.joe@gmail.com with any questions.

Ongoing Activities

• Take a self-guided tour outside & inside the station.
• “Train Spot” under the canopy! See locomotives galore! Wave at the engineers!
• Indoors, enjoy the Rockville Model Railroad Society’s HO Scale Model Train Display.
• Play with wooden toy train sets.
• Visit Station Manager’s ticket office and 1945 telephone booth.
• See railroad photos & memorabilia, including the original B&O “Drumhead,” along with photos & memorabilia of the original Downtown Silver Spring.

This station is in the National Register of Historic Places, a Montgomery County Historic Site, and a gem in Silver Spring’s Arts & Entertainment District.

Please note that because of contractor equipment using the lot, the number of available parking spaces will be limited. There is a special needs space and ramp at the station. Additional parking is available at county garage and lot #4 (8100 Fenton St.) that is one block from the station. Traffic and crosswalk lights facilitate crossing Georgia Avenue at Sligo Avenue in front of the station.

Open House Co-Hosted by Montgomery Preservation & Silver Spring Historical Society