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Rail Festival Rides Into Carillon Historical Park This Week

Dayton History volunteer Norm Gibson   engineers the mini-train ride around Carillon Park.
Jerry Kenney
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WYSO
Dayton History volunteer Norm Gibson engineers the mini-train ride around Carillon Park.

On Saturday and Sunday, June 22 and 23, Carillon Park’s Rail Festival returns, and thousands of train enthusiasts will be there to enjoy it.

Rail Fest is a wildly popular event featuring miniature train rides, model train displays and a whole lot more. To get the details on this year’s event, WYSO's Jerry Kenney sat down with Dayton History Media Coordinator, Leo DeLuca. WYSO listeners will know Leo from the Community Voices reports he has produced for the station. Our conversation was a lot of fun this year mainly because of where it took place...

For more information on this year's Carillon Park Rail Festival, visit https://www.daytonhistory.org/events/special-events/carillon-park-rail-festival/

 

Jerry Kenney is an award-winning news host and anchor at WYSO, which he joined in 2007 after more than 15 years of volunteering with the public radio station. He serves as All Things Considered host, Alpha Rhythms co-host, and WYSO Weekend host.