Get off your caboose and head to the train show

By: Mike Conley | McDowell News
Published: February 18, 2009

Friday and Saturday, model railroad enthusiasts will get together in Asheville for the 19th Annual Model Train Show.
The train show, sponsored by the WNC Model Railroaders, will be held at the Asheville Civic Center. It will feature working model railroad layouts in both HO and N scales. These detailed layouts include numerous trains, towns, mountains, tunnels and bridges. Model railroad enthusiasts and collectors will be there to demonstrate equipment and answer questions.
Dealers from throughout the Southeast will be there with a wide assortment of model locomotives, rolling stock, buildings and scenery for layouts. More than 100 tables will be set up at the event. Dealers will sell books, posters and videos about trains. Some of these will feature the trains and railroad landmarks of western North Carolina and McDowell County. You can expect to find books, videos and old photographs of Andrews Geyser, the tunnels and loops at Altapass and the Marion and Old Fort depots. Dealers will also have engineer caps, whistles and toys for the young.
The event will be held Friday from noon to 7 p.m. It will continue on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission will be $5 for adults. Children 13 and younger will be admitted free with an adult.
To get to the Civic Center, take Interstate 40 to I-240 East. You will get off I-240 at Exit 4C and take a left turn at the end of the ramp and follow the signs.
The WNC Model Railroaders is a non-profit club devoted to the hobby of model railroading.
For more information about the train show, contact Fred Coleman by calling (828) 699-0983 or by emailing tsinfo@landofskydiv.org.

Get off your caboose and head to the train show

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