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All Aboard the Silver Streak
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Both Art Deco design aficionados
and rail buffs are drawn to this stream-
lined, vintage Zephyr train (above) with its Key to Floorplan
ground-breaking diesel-electric engine. First level
Main level
Upper level

The Great
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Train Story
Over 20 miniature trains
race past skyscrapers,
through prairies, and over
the Rockies to the Pacific
Docks on 1,425 ft (437 m)
U-505 Submarine
9 of track (above) that
replicate the 2,200-mile
Take a tour around this original 1941 German
U-boat (above). The submarine was captured during (3,540-km) train trip from
World War II and still looks much as it did then, Chicago to Seattle on this
complete with an Enigma codebreaking machine. interactive model railroad.
NEED TO KNOW • The Brain Food Court Museum Guide
serves above-average The museum has two main
MAP F6 • 57th St. & entrances – the Great Hall
Lake Shore Dr. • Metra fare, and has a kids’ zone. (first level) and the Henry
station: 55th/56th/57th • Advance tickets Crown Space Center (for
Sts. • 1-773-684-1414 reserved on the Internet the Omnimax Theater).
• www.msichicago.org or telephone cost extra Head first to tour-only dis-
but are worth it on busy
Open 9:30am–4pm daily weekends. plays (Silver Streak, U-505,
Adm: adults $18, children • Additional Omnimax the Coal Mine) as later waits
for these can be more than
(3–11) $11, seniors $14; tickets are sold at all an hour. Visit the Omnimax
including one Omnimax museum entrances: later – you’ll appre ciate
show: adults $27, children adults $8, children (3–11) sitting down. Strollers can
$18, seniors $21 • DA $6, seniors $7. be rented in the Great Hall.

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