Augusta County Railroad Museum
The new PERMANENT HOME of the Augusta County Railroad Museum
2024
Our new, permanent location in
downtown Waynesboro
We’re pleased to announce our new permanent location in downtown Waynesboro.
We will have several layouts running and some displays ready during this early stage, and throughout the holiday season. We will begin building toward a full Museum in the New Year.
AUGUSTA COUNTY RAILROAD MUSEUM
413 W Main St.
Waynesboro, VA 22980
FREE ADMISSION
December Hours:
Saturdays: 10am to 4pm
Sundays: 1pm to 4pm
Winter Hours (January - March 2025):
Saturdays: 1pm to 4pm
So we can begin building and refurbishing displays and layouts, we will be opening only on Saturdays, 1:00 - 4:00 pm, for open houses. We hope soon to be able to offer some public workshops on the basics of trackwork, layout design, scenery and structures at other times; these will be listed here as they are developed.
Our Mission
The mission of the Augusta County Railroad Museum is to encourage interest in the history of railroading and to promote the hobby of model railroading. This is accomplished through museum displays and operating model train layouts that are open to the public free of charge, and through educational outreach.
Mission Statement, 2015
2024
Shenandoah Valley Model Train and Railroading Show
Our History
The Augusta County Model Railroad Club was founded in 1993 with nine model railroaders who soon began using a small building on the grounds of a cement plant in Staunton. They built layouts, brought their own trains to operate, and at Christmas they had a free open house for the community come to see the trains run. As they grew they relocated to Waynesboro. In 2013 we began hosting the Shenandoah Valley Train Show and by 2014 we were operating in Waynesboro and in Staunton, moving to the Staunton Mall the next year and staying until the Mall closed in 2020. For all those years we had a tradition of regular (usually weekly) open houses when trains were operated for the public free of charge, opening more frequently during the holiday season, offering workshops, talks, and assistance with model train questions as well as hosting special openings for school and other groups as well as developing a collection of real railroad artifacts, a large library on railroads and model railroading. In addition, we take displays and layouts to the Augusta County Fair and other places. In our new home we will be able to resume all of this, starting after Thanksgiving 2024 with some layouts and displays.
ACRRM Volunteers at the Fall Festival
2023