I have been a Wichita resident all my life (a crisp 20 years now) and I'd always seen this museum, ATSF 3768 and the Santa Fe diesel on the Douglas St. Bridge. I'd only been to this museum once in memory. Recently, I went back this last week. What I can say is this little museum is heavily underrated and deserves more attention. Tickets are only 7 dollars for an adult. Right now, the museum needs about 30,000 dollars to pay for a new paint job on the diesel, else likely she'll rust away. Please visit here and say hi to these nice folks. They convinced me, on my first visit after 10 years, to volunteer with restoration projects. Highly recommend visiting.

What a great museum and coection of railroad memorabilia and trains! There are locomotives, baggage cars and cabooses to climb on, go in, and to explore! The staff are very knowledgeable and helpful, and you can certainly learn much from them. A lot of fun for all!

Really awesome train museum. You could go inside almost every engine and railcar and you can watch trains go by the BNSF tracks that run next to the displays.

I have heard of the Transportation Museum but had never went even though I'm a life long Wichitan. I was very pleasantly surprised! There are steam engines and a ton of cabooses that you are allowed to go in. The people who work there are very pleasantly and informed about their trains. You can tell they LOVE their job! There is even a WWII train section. It's a great location, fairly priced, and a gem to the Wichita community. My kids loved it and want to go back! I would highly recommend the Great Plains Transportation Museum. The view is also great!

Very nice gentlemen running the place, they offered our group a tour and it was a great time. They were funny, positive and very informative, it just felt like you were talking to your family so they were very welcoming. There are also actual trains that you are able to walk through, very cool and neat!

If you have a love of trains and want to talk this is a great place to see. The docent was very knowledgeable about the 150 year history of not only Wichita but trains in the US. Kids will love the opportunity to get into a cab of the locomotives and cars they have on site.

This place is AWESOME! My family came here when they collaborated with the Toy Train Museum. I worried my son wouldn't have that much fun. He is a little younger than 3. My worry was unfounded!!! Myblittle boy had a BLAST. He loved looking at all the trains and train cars and he couldn't get enough of being inside them. We will kost definitely be going back! Finding parking was a bit difficult, but other than that everything was great! Our tour guides were delightful. The gentlemen was so full of info and the older lady was just fun to talk to as she told us stories of her husband who had passed away but was a huge train enthusiast. It was an outting I know my son will not soon forget and neither will I or my husband! If you or your kid love trains this is the perfect place to go.

It's a pretty cool place. They have options for birthday parties on a caboose and we're thinking of doing that for our child.

Museum is small for the price you pay to get in. But it’s worth it, staff is very knowledgeable

Nice museum but GPS had tuff time finding entrance that is XC from union station

Fun place to explore when the weather's nice ~ especially if bar hopping in Old Town 🌻

Such a fun experience. Walk upstairs to go outside and see the trains. Mini museum area upstairs, gift shop downstairs. All the staff are volunteers and were very nice.

Great museum! Not the biggest I've been to, but an automatic 5 stars for letting their visitors go inside many of the locomotives and cabooses! A lot of places don't allow that anymore. Also, great representation of key railroading eras from steam to early diesel to later diesel, and up to the modern era by being located right next to a very busy, active freight line. Great exhibits indoors, too, including an eye-opening model that showed what Wichita was like 150-ish years ago. The rest of my family aren't big railroad fanatics like me, but everyone seemed to find something enjoyable about their visit. It's worth the stop.

We've been here a few times now. It's an amazing experience for our son to be able to see and touch the trains he is so obsessed with. Bob walked us around today, he was very patient with us and passionate about train history. Highly recommend for parents of train obsessed children!

Was nice I'd like to see train ride cheaper 50.00 a person for back and forth was pricey but other stuff like getting up in train cars was neat and scavenger hunt for children was nice. Would be neat to have HO train set there. But it was a nice event overall and shaved ice was,awesome. Did not make it to buy bbq as the shaved ice filled us up.