The museum is pretty small but very interesting to see all the old railroad station pieces. We had a nice time and the employee was very friendly.👍🙂🚂

This is definitely a diamond in the rough. Here is the game plan. Grab a bite to eat at one of the local places, have a brew and walk to the Depot Museum. OK, if you don't have time or not into history skip, ignorance is bliss, really, a biblical truth. I recommend you walk around this place, go inside and learn some history, talk to the museum curator, it is OK, he will not bite you. Learn something. Think about a simpler time when everything was not at your fingertips (it is not now, you are fooling yourself) and life was something to live and enjoy however you chose. Oh OK, I get it. Stop by this wonderful point in time and enjoy the nostalgia. Truly Americana, whether you agree or not, a fact. Learn where you came from, it is not so bad. RTR

It's thanks to volunteers like the ones operating the Cookeville Depot Museum that visitors depart with long-lasting cheerful memories.

Great place! only bad thing was that one of the vistors was a little bit too exited at the trains. he kept telling me about all how them steam trains run and all that. but i'm not really sure what he ment by 2-6-2 layout with an automated tender.

This was once an active railroad station on the line between Eastern Tennessee and Central Tennessee but it's since been converted to a museum. I was here at 6:30am - well before opening - but there are still things to see outside including a locomotive and a caboose. Interesting for sure. The marker here reads, "A locomotive on the Nashville-Knoxville Railroad first steamed into Cookeville in 1890. The Tennessee Central bought the line in 1902 and built this depot with its distinctive pagoda design in 1909. Soon six trains daily brought visitors, shoppers, and salesmen to town and took natives to distant places. Also, freights loaded with lumber, hogs, corn, and tobacco rolled to faraway markets." It was erected in 1976. It's not a very large museum but it's well worth a stop if you're traveling along I-40.

This was really cool. Highly recommend!

This is one of the best places to take children or anybody you don't have to be little a child at heart can even enjoy this and the lady that worked at the Depot on this day I did not get her name but she was the sweetest thing the sweetest and we were there on Wednesday and we loved it everyone should stop in and see the Depot in Cookeville Tennessee

The tour guide was fantastic do knowledgeable and enthusiastic the whole museum was clean and fantastic loved every nook and cranny will go again

Love this place. It has the ice cream shop called Cream City they have lots of flavors and there very friendly people. It is family owned and runned. There is alot of small shops we went in . We found a lot of good bargins.

Very small museum but very helpful staff about this museum and other places in the neighborhood to check out

Very nice small town place.

Wish it had been open. But got nice photos from outside. It was pouring down rain. Remnants from hurricane that hit the Carolinas. Will try to visit again when I'm in the area.

Fun little outing and the store keeper gave the kids a train whistle. There is also an ice cream place directly across the street. Good way to kill a couple of hours

Nice little museum. Saw minitrain in action too. Free to enter with donation option.

FANTASTIC host and a great little place. LOVED the HO scale model as well... lots of work went into that!

The place was closed. Why are these tourist attractions closed on Sunday and Mondays?

The boys loved all the trains and had a blast seeing the trains