{"id":77653,"date":"2026-01-04T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77653\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:50:07","slug":"annual-antique-toy-train-show-rolls-through-south-jersey-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77653\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual antique toy train show rolls through South Jersey museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">DEPTFORD, New Jersey (WPVI) &#8212; Jeffrey Norcross has been collecting and curating a museum of American history for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">And each year, he rolls out antique toy trains from his childhood for all to see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This year marks the 23rd Annual Antique Toy Train Show at The Museum of American History at Deptford, NJ.<br class=\" \"\/>At present, Norcross is displaying three of his timeless trains from the mid-20th century, which still impressively roar across the tracks all these years later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The train show is a gateway to the rest of the two-story museum, which features agricultural artifacts, fossil specimens, glasses and bottles, pieces of Pine Barrens history, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Norcross, an archaeologist, proudly excavated many of the items himself at 161 sites in 16 states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This year&#8217;s train show will run through February 1, 2026. Then, an art show will launch at the museum from March 8th through the 22nd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">To learn more, visit their website at www.southjerseymuseum.org.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/sports-museum-southern-new-jersey-is-big-hit-families\/16058351\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: &#8216;All Sports Museum of Southern New Jersey&#8217; is a big hit with families<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Families can keep score in a scavenger hunt for big league memorabilia at the All Sports Museum of Southern New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEPTFORD, New Jersey (WPVI) &#8212; Jeffrey Norcross has been collecting and curating a museum of American history for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1328,12151,39737,1957,8779,39738,39736,915,69,71,70,11335,8091,27304,7087,21074],"class_list":["post-77653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-activities","tag-antique","tag-deptford","tag-families","tag-fun","tag-jeffrey-norcross","tag-museum-of-american-history","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-show","tag-south-jersey","tag-toy","tag-train","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}