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Location
What you should know
Best time
Visit on First Friday (5-8pm) or Last Tuesday (6-8pm) evenings to see the model train layouts actively operating. Regular Saturday hours (1-5pm) are also available, but evening visits offer the best chance to watch trains in action.
Visitor tip
Upcoming interactive opportunities include the ability to bring your own trains to run on the layouts during Last Tuesday events, plus workshops on trackwork, layout design, and scenery. Check their event schedule for these special sessions.
Visitor tip
To see the real locomotives referenced in the museum exhibits, visit the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore or the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke for a deeper railroad history experience.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Railroad Museum
- Highlights
- Operating model train layouts in 4 scales, railroad artifacts, Blue Ridge Tunnel exhibit
- Admission
- Free
- Hours
- Saturday 1-5pm, First Friday 5-8pm, Last Tuesday 6-8pm
What visitors say
Free, at least for now. Donations are requested, but there's no pressure, no one you'd have to say no to. Quite a few layouts, some elaborate, guages from N to G. Lots of plans for the future, including the near future, including the…
This is a great place to visit. Free admission, just leave a donation...I strongly advise to leave one, well worth it! They have about 5 layouts or so, of various model train scales/gauges. Only open Sat 1-5PM, and now Friday night…
Polite and welcoming. The creativity and attention to detail is amazing. Definitely worth the walk through. Donate if you can!
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Did You Know?
- Visitors can bring their own model trains to run on the museum's layouts during Last Tuesday evening sessions (6-8pm), creating a unique interactive experience where the public contributes to the operating displays
- The museum features model train layouts in four different scales (G, O, HO, and N gauge), allowing visitors to see the same railroad scenes represented at dramatically different sizes
- The museum operates on a donation-based free admission model with no pressure to contribute, making it accessible to all visitors while relying on community support
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