Get help troubleshooting model trains

FREMONT — Do you need help troubleshooting some problems with your model train? Or maybe you're wondering how best to care for it? This year, there are two opportunities to get help with model trains at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums site in Fremont. Model train enthusiasts will offer a bonus train clinic from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday to help visitors get their trains ready for Christmas. Then they'll offer the annual train clinic at its normal date and time of 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan. 3 — the Saturday after New Year's Day. Admission to each clinic is $5 per person ages 6 and older and free for ages 5 and younger. Admission can be purchased at the museum front desk on the days of the event. Veteran model train hobbyists will examine model trains that guests bring in and help them with advice and issues. Those who bring trains to the clinic can also run their trains on the Hayes Train Special model train display track. The track fits standard, O-gauge and G-gauge trains. The Hayes Train Special is Hayes Presidential's annual model train display in which model trains run through a Victorian holiday scene and delight visitors of all ages. Visitors and train clinic participants can watch them wind through tunnels and villages in this multi-tiered 12-foot by 24-foot exhibit. They can get involved by pushing buttons that run one of the trains, blow the train whistle and more. The train clinics and Hayes Train Special are part of A Presidential Christmas, a series of holiday events at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. Partial funding for A Presidential Christmas is by Wright Leather Works. The Hayes Train Special is sponsored by Croghan Colonial Bank and The Knight Family. People can visit rbhayes.org for more information.