Tour de Chooch! 9AM-4:30PM
Saturday, November 28, 2026 · 9:00 AM EST · Seashore Trolley Museum · Kennebunkport, ME
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Seashore is once again participating in the Tour de Chooch as a host site! This is a free, three day event, and Seashore is participating on Saturday, November 28 from 9AM-4:30PM. Trolleys will be operating this day on our heritage railway but for a holiday event that requires an advanced ticket purchase (check out Santa’s Magical Trolley Ride if you’re interested in learning more). What is Tour de Chooch? Here’s information directly from the event’s website, and you can learn even more and see a list of all the participating homes and organizations HERE. Written from the perspective of event co-founder, Bruce Robinson: It was 1994 when the idea of Tour de Chooch was conceived in a hobby shop in Groveland, Massachusetts called Bay State Models. Win Nowell, owner of Bay State Models and I were discussing how customers would come into the shop, purchase all kinds of model railroad “stuff” and leave with no hint of where all this material was going or how it was being used. The next logical step was to have an informal open house/layout tour on a convenient Saturday so customers could show off what they building. The open house would be centered on Bay State Models so travel distance wouldn’t be excessive and, besides, every one that came to the shop knew one another. It would be low key and fun. This conversation went on for a couple of weeks at the shop until one Saturday afternoon Bill Borelli came in to hang with the guys at the shop. Upon hearing of the idea Bill, without skipping a single heart beat, blurted out “we’ll call it Tour de Chooch!” In addition to being a model railroader Bill also had an active interest in motor sports. Now we had an idea, a name and a lot of “let’s do it” enthusiasm. Bill took on the creation of artwork for fliers and I started building a flyer distribution display for the shop. Bill’s idea for the flyers was to print a single flyer for each host’s layout with a brief description of the layout, driving directions and an…
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