On train front, I watched the Travel Channel with the great train excursions of the US. Was neat as they went on the American Orient Express, then the Grand Canyon Railroad, and a few others. Also watched a program on the Dennison Depot Museum....someplace in Ohio. Perhaps some of our Ohio folks were in it.
Been there once when they had a train festival. they had a few locos and cars you climb on. If I remember right you could catch the train in columbus and ride it to the festival there was the station/musem and a model train musem in another building.