Nostalgia Station is a museum located in a former Louisville and Nashville Railroad depot and for sales started by Winfrey and Wanda Akins in 1987.

It houses hundreds of antique toy trains and various other types of toys.

So all aboard this week's Tapestry segment celebrating arts and culture is bound for nostalgia.

Station.

I've been collecting trains most of my life.

I think I started when I was three.

My dad bought me my first train in 1947, so I've had trains all my life.

We are a historical museum as well as an educational museum.

We have hundreds of antique toys and trains on display, as well as to operating train layouts.

And this is all presented in an old historic train depot passenger station.

It's a historical presentation of toys that would have been played with children from around 1900 until the 1950s.

We have a lot of toys and trains that were made in the 1920s and thirties.

We have a lot of cast iron.

We have ten, we have windup toys, we have metal heavy, heavily built toys.

We have very few plastic frames.

Most of our toys and trains are metal because they were made prior to 1960 and the predominant material back at that time was metal.

I have an 1890 Sweden steam train that runs on life.

Steam.

We put water in the boiler and alcohol in the burner and you light it and that child would play with this toy.

And I don't know how many houses got burned down by a child playing with a life steam train that used alcohol as the propellant.

And then I'm a closet airplane collector.

I tell people, we got a bunch of airplanes.

I branched out into toys a number of years ago.

A lot of the toys today are impulse buys.

And the toys that we have in here were like utility toys.

They were motorcycles and trucks and cars and and that sort of thing.

They had play value.

Every time I buy a new toy, I have to look it up and learn all about it and find out, you know, who made it and when it was made.

And it's a learning experience.

It's kind of a magical feeling when you're around operating trains, I guess the sound, the smell, the motion.

It's just a fascination.

And the children love it.

The children like to follow the trains around.

And it's just amazing to watch the youngsters and their eyes light up and they giggle and they laugh.

And they had the best time when they come in here.

The older generation people my age from 50 on up can appreciate the trains.

Back then, a lot of people had train sets.

Not so much today.

People have gone to the electronics.

Nowadays.

They can kind of relive their childhood when they come in here because we have the toys that they played with, their parents played with and their grandparents played with.

So they can kind of go back in time when they come through here.

That's why we call it nostalgia stations.

Appropriately named, indeed.

The museum is open in Brussels, Wednesdays through Saturdays to check them out.