Day Trip tp Tomball 🚂 (FULL EPISODE) S6 E13
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- THROWBACK EPISODE - This episode originally aired on PBS on May 27, 2015. Some of the locations may have changed. Check thedaytripper.com for the most up-to-date information.
While the lights of Houston shine brightly, don’t let them outshine this small Texas town just 30 miles north. True, it’s had a number of names over the years (Peck, TX; Oil Town USA), but today it’s named after the man responsible for bringing the railroad to this rural community: Thomas Henry Ball (aka Tom Ball). If you visit, you’ll find a growing city that’s still connected to its historic past.
If you’re looking for the history of town, head to the renovated Railroad Depot. It sits just a stone’s throw from Main Street right on the tracks and takes visitors to the time when the railroad was king. Suddenly this outlying community was connected to the rest of the world and began to boom. Find relics of railroad days past and a model train at this museum.
The next museum you need to see is the Tomball Museum Center. Rather than one building packed with stuff, this is a collection of historic buildings each filled with artifacts giving visitors a glimpse into an era of Tomball’s history. There is a log cabin, a schoolhouse, a church and many more. My favorite is the 1940’s oil camp house commemorating the discovery of oil in Tomball which made this city’s population triple in a few short years.
If you want to step into a flying museum, then contact the Commemorative Air Force Gulf Coast Wing to see “Texas Raiders” a restored B-17 Flying Fortress. Multiple times a year, they take this gal up in the sky giving riders a once in a lifetime experience.
When you’ve worked up a giant appetite, Tomball has a number of giant options. For Texas tea room that’s nothing like a grandma-inspired tea party, head to The Whistle Stop Tea Room. Here you’ll find amazing sandwiches (jalapeno pimento cheese anyone?), homemade soups and a dessert case that’s worth the stop alone.
For country cookin’ with a Texas-sized competition, head to Mel’s Country Cafe. It sits out in the country, but that doesn’t stop folks from lining up to partake in the goodness. Both the chicken-fried steak and hamburger are considered the tops by Texas Monthly. But the burger that tops them all is the Mega Mel - a behemoth of meat, cheese, and bacon. It you can eat it in two hours, you get immortal glory on the wall…and a T-shirt.
Tomball has a number of great city parks. Spring Creek Park is massive with tall pines and open fields for playing frisbee or having a picnic. In the back corner, you’ll also find a historic marker for a Confederate gun powder mill that exploded on this site killing everyone inside. It left a crater so big that when it filled with rainwater it became a popular swimming hole that many say is haunted.
This important park down the way from Tomball is the site of Sam Houston’s famous “fork in the road.” During the Texas Revolution, he had to make a decision, turn left and run for safety in Louisiana or turn right and face the Mexican Army. Sam took a right and headed toward San Jacinto…the rest, my friends, is history.
Head into this nature preserve filled with acres of towering cedars and pines for a retreat from the busy world outside. You might even find the old cabin of the mystical “Old Kleb”, himself, who lived without electricity in these woods until the 1990’s! Spending some time in this peaceful nature almost makes you want to give up electricity too (I said almost…)
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Sadly that B-17 was destroyed in a mid-air collision at a Dallas airshow on Nov 12, 2022.
You need to come back. Tomball has changed SOOOO much in the past 9 years!
Yeah, it's somehow more cookie-cutter and suburban 🤷♂️
We moved here from california last year and live within walking distance of Mel’s. They had a fire several months ago and will be opening soon. They have been closed and very much missed. Thank you for this amazing video that I’m going to share on my social media page for all my friends and family to get a look at our new hometown.
Ive been by to eat twice in a month and it has been closed. I need an update on the re opening 😊
@@EsmeRosi They say late Fall or early December, due to some glitches in the restoration.
Mr. Ken at the depot has passed away. There is a statue of him at the depot. I remember standing at the end of the runway when the B17 came in for a landing.
We moved to Tomball from The Woodlands just over a month ago and we love it here.
I love your content , This should be on prime time TV like Texas Country reporter used to be
It has been a while since I have been there as I now live in Katy, but Tejas Chocolate + Barbecue is tha bomb.
Lol, Shane from Texas Bucket List finished the Mega Mel..just saying 🤣
The B-17 is truly awesome.
Thanks for your great show!! I may have on the news, get disgusted switch to “Day Tripper” and I start smiling 🙂…Thanks Chet, your crew and Family
Mel's Diner burned down April 16, 2023, but they are building it back.
Their webpage shows that it is now open.
You missed the best breakfast at The Nook.
I miss The Nook. I lived out that way from 2000-2014. I'm currently in Katy. My favorite breakfast place is a little drive over to Patti's in Pattison.
Loving all of your new videos!! Puts me in the mood to explore again. Thank you.
I can watch the incredible dude 😎 all day.
It use to be called Red Bird Airport back in the 70's.
You're right in my backyard
First with an actual comment. Tomball simply rocks…
Chat when you went to the tea room mentioned manners you didn't put your little pinky up when you drink your tea
When was this filmed? My neck of the woods.
Horrible experience at Mel's Diner. Ordered a Ruben and got burnt black bread with maybe two slices of meat, very little in the sandwich. Sent it back to get normally toasted bread and only the top was replaced and the bottom was till burnt black and the sandwich was cold. I was so excited to try this place, but it was a big disappointment. No mention of Tejas Chocolate & BBQ in Old Town Tomball???
No mention of Goodson’s? Blasphemy!
Agreed!
I grew up in Magnolia in the 70's and 80's. Goodson's cafe was awesome. The chicken fried steak is still the best I've had.
No mention of historic Goodson's?
Why bother. Same boring menu for 275 years.
Is Goodsons still open
@pict4119 yes. Same menu as 100 years ago
Originally called Peck
Dork.
Is Mel’s back open? It caught fire not that long ago.
as far as i know..... no..
In 3 to 4 weeks.
It is open. Today is June 1,2024
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