Tour 1 – Explore Alone
This self-guided tour allows your group to explore all the history the Birthplace of American Railroading has to offer. Exploring rail history through seven buildings and train platforms, including the magnificent Roundhouse, allows them to see, touch, and hear the most important American railroad collection in the world!

Tour Duration Time: 1.5 hours
Recommended for: youth, senior, adult and preformed groups. This is a great tour for first-time visitors.
Youths: $10 / Seniors: $12 / Adults: $14
Tour operator rates available by calling 410-752-2462 x 205.
Reservations accepted daily from 10am-2:30pm for groups of 20 more. A 20 minute train ride is available Thursday - Sunday, April - December and weekends in January for an additional $2 per person.

Tour 3 – Technology Changes

This guided tour takes your group to the early days of “simple” steam locomotives through all the innovations that allowed trains and their cargo to go faster and more efficiently, and stop more safely. It includes the examination of the technology that improved the way trains were built and repaired and why the caboose disappeared.

Tour Duration Time: 1 hour
Rates: $15 for youths ages 12+, $19 Adults/Seniors
Tour operator rates available by calling 410-752-2462 x 205.
Reservations accepted daily from 10am-2:30pm for groups of 20-50 participants. A 20 minute train ride is available Thursday - Sunday, April - December and weekends in January for an additional $2 per person.

Tour 4 – First, Last, Best, & Only of its Kind

This guided and comprehensive tour takes your group on a nostalgic journey through the magnificent Roundhouse, North Car Shop, and Mt. Clare Station. As your group steps back in time, they will learn how the B&O Railroad spawned an industrial revolution, survived civil and world wars and brought about a museum collection that contains some of the first, last, best and only pieces of its kind.

Tour Duration Time: 2 hours
Rates: $18 for youths ages 12+, $21 Adults/Seniors
Tour operator rates available by calling 410-752-2462 x 205.
Reservations accepted daily from 10am-2:30pm for groups of 20-50 participants. A 20 minute train ride is available Thursday - Sunday, April - December and weekends in January for an additional $2 per person.

Tour 5 – B&O Lunch Buffet & Tour

Your group can enjoy a hot lunch buffet at the B&O. Then take a guided tour of the Roundhouse, Mt. Clare Station, and Exhibit Galleries. Learn how standard time evolved from the railroad, experience the first telegraph message, and marvel at the miniature railroad cars and locomotives of the Smithsonian’s Model Railroad Collection.

Tour Duration Time: 2 hours including lunch
Rates: $37 per person
Tour operator rates available by calling 410-752-2462 x 205.
Reservations accepted Monday-Friday from 10am-2:00pm for groups of 20-50 participants. A 20 minute train ride is available Thursday - Sunday, April - December and weekends in January for an additional $2 per person.

Tour 6 – The War Came by Train

This guided tour allows your group to explore the most extensive of authentic Civil War period locomotives and rail cars in North America. Learn why the B&O Railroad was the most important and influential railroad during the Civil War. See the B&O’s “Iron Horses” that moved hundreds of thousands of soldiers and tons of supplies for the Union war effort. Experience the personal stories of men and women of military and civilian life who lived or worked along railroad lines and of the life and death struggles that affected those along the B&O’s rails.

Tour Duration Time: 1.5 hour
Rates: $14 for youths ages 12+, $18 Adults/Seniors
Tour operator rates available by calling 410-752-2462 x 205.
Reservations accepted daily from 10am-2:30pm for groups of 20-50 participants. A 20 minute train ride is available Thursday - Sunday, April - December and weekends in January for an additional $2 per person.

Tour 7 – Holiday Tour in December, B&O's Magical Holiday Express

Trains are magical during the holidays! There is no better place to be a child than at the B&O Railroad Museum where a spectacular celebration in the museum's historic roundhouse is devoted to a trains of all sizes and shapes, holiday festivities, and a winter wonderland of family fun and activities. Each weekend highlights a new holiday theme, characters, model trains, and train rides with Santa and Frosty! This festive self guided tour is recommended for all ages.

Tour Duration Time: 1 hour
Rates: $14 for youths ages 12+, $18 Adults/Seniors
Tour operator rates available by calling 410-752-2462 x 205.
Reservations accepted daily from 10am-2:30pm for groups of 20-50 participants. A 20 minute train ride is available for an additional $2 per person. For the holiday train ride schedule please click here.