Links to Interesting Places and information!

Our good friends over at the Saluda Historic Depot. The Saluda grade was once the steepest, standard gauge, mainline railway grade in the US.

The Carolina Mountain Division is the local chapter (division) of the National Model Railroad Association. This division will be hosting the regional conference in 2026. Hop on over and see what's happening.

The N.C. Transportation Museum is a historic site, once home to Southern Railway’s largest steam locomotive repair facility in the southeast, and a museum featuring all types of transportation history – railroading, automotive, aviation, and more.

Historic structures include Barber Junction Depot, an authentic train station built in 1898 that serves as the museum’s Visitor Center.  The Bob Julian Roundhouse is the largest remaining roundhouse in North America and is home to locomotives, passenger rail cars, and a full-size replica Wright Flyer.  The massive Back Shop, where steam locomotives were once completely overhauled, now houses rail cars of the past, antique automobiles, fire trucks, and the restoration of the Piedmont Airlines’ Potomac Pacemaker DC-3.  The Flue Shop houses the museum’s Bumper-to-bumper automotive exhibit.

Plan your visit today for a trip into the past at the museum that moves you!

Come out and visit us! The NCRM operates the New Hope Valley Railway so that visitors can experience a ride on our historic railroad. Also affectionately known as the “Triangle’s Train”, it travels along 4 miles of historic railroad track through piney woods and over a trestle on an hour-long, round trip from Bonsal to New Hill and back. In addition, on some ride days, we also offer food and drinks for sale. Steam locomotive rides are not available at this time but our diesel locomotives travel down the same route and offer the same exciting excursions. Join us as a member and help us maintain and operate the railway and help us with education and sharing the technological heritage of railroads! Please review the Plan Your Visit page for important information regarding your visit. Buy tickets online.

The Rocky Cove Railroad at the North Carolina Arboretum is a G-scale (garden scale) working model train that commemorates the coming of the railroad to western North Carolina. Expertly-crafted scale modeling recreates a depot and surrounding houses and buildings to simulate a late 19th or early 20th century town scenario much like Best or Old Fort. Starting in April and continuing through October, Rocky Cove Railroad will operate on Saturdays and Sundays from noon until 4 p.m., weather permitting.

Visit our 1800 sq ft warehouse. We have a LARGE assortment of O gauge (Williams, K-line, Lionel, MTH) engines, O gauge parts, rolling stock, passenger cars, transformers, track, and accessories. We also have many HO trains - engines, box cars, loose cars, buildings, building kits, track, and transformers. We have a nice variety of N-scale engines and rolling stock. 
We have a small selection of American flyer/S gauge, standard gauge, and G gauge. 

Email us for information at        CarolinaTrainShows@gmail.com