Lauritzen Garden, Omaha's Botanical Center
100 Bancroft Street, Omaha, NE
(402) 346-4002
www.lauritzengardens.org

Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha’s Botanical Center, features more than a dozen outdoor display gardens on 100 acres, along with a visitor and education center housing an indoor floral display hall, café, gift shop, classrooms and a horticulture library. Also at the garden is Kenefick Park, which features two of the greatest locomotives to ever power Union Pacific Railroad - Centennial No. 6900, the largest and most powerful diesel-electric locomotive ever built, and Big Boy No. 4023, the world’s largest steam locomotive. In 2007, Lauritzen Gardens opened its ever-popular model railroad garden, which features dozens of buildings, tressels and bridges constructed of natural materials and seven G-scale model train lines that run seasonally from April through October.

Visitors may hop aboard the Union Pacific minitrain for free rides through the garden during Railroad Days. Other activities throughout the weekend will include railroad-themed music performed by the Union Pacific Railroad Chorale, three model train exhibits, the newly expanded model railroad garden, children’s train make-and-take projects and more.

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