Conroe Students Take Skype Tour At Tomball Depot

WOODLANDS, TX - From the desk of Tomball's downtown railroad depot: A recent tour of Tomball’s historic downtown railroad depot took to the Internet as students from Stewart Elementary School used SKYPE to virtually travel back to 1907.

Through the use of SKYPE, an instant messaging app that provides online video chat services and video conference calls, Depot staff was able to give the tour and answer railroading questions from the Conroe ISD students of Pamela Petty’s 4th grade class who watched from their classroom on-campus.

Volunteer trainman John Lockwood of the Tomball Depot conducted the tour while Tomball Marketing Assistant Larryssa Roberts handled the mobile phone camera.

Tomball’s historic downtown 1907 railroad Depot is at 201 South Elm Street in downtown Tomball, and is open for actual tours every Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission and parking are free. For tour information, email mbaxter@tomballtx.gov.

Relive the past as the City’s newest attraction, the T&W Model Railway of “O” gauge Lionel trains, comes to the Tomball Depot later this fall. Vintage cars and several hundred feet of track will wind through a detailed landscape inside the Depot’s restored caboose.

Tomball is just 28 miles northwest of downtown Houston on FM 2920 at State Highway 249. Visit tomballtx.gov or “Tomball Texan For Fun” on Facebook.

Image via Tomball’s historic downtown railroad depot