Visiting Kyiv’s Railway Museum sends me on a nostalgic journey back to my childhood, when every train ride was a wonderful and memorable event. The Railway Museum before me now brings to life the old steam locomotives, long carriages for passengers and freight, hand-powered cars, inspection cars, even a semaphore, plus many other interesting machines and mechanisms made and used in a different era (beginning with The October Revolution of 1917 to the late USSR). Steam locomotives bring very special and unforgettable feelings. They are visitors from the past, fast and powerful, like fire-breathing monsters from the Industrial Revolution. 
Experience the museum now by walking on the passenger wagons, while imagining how people traveled one hundred years ago. There is also a very unique carriage that Stalin traveled about in. This impressive carriage has everything, including a conference room, master bedroom, bathroom, and even a kitchen!
Ukraine has, along with fast express trains that can reach any of its big cities in six hours or less, slower trains called night trains. They are not fast and involve traveling by train at night, so that while you sleep, the train carries you to your destination, arriving early that morning. Night trains are very popular because they are so convenient, arriving in the morning so you can do your business or walk around town during the day, then returning in the evening by night train, this time in the opposite direction. That’s how my parents traveled and how they traveled with their parents before me. 
I love traveling by night train, gazing out my window at the fast-fleeting stations, dark forests, and pastoral rural countrysides, while slowly falling asleep to the clicking sound of the wheels on the rails.
People will say that a new, high-speed train is much better for traveling. Perhaps this is true, but for me there will always be an alluring feeling of magnetic romance and magical attraction in traveling on the old trains.
The museum is located at the Kyiv Railway Station. Entrance fee is about $2.00
