Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum
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The official Facebook site for the new and growing Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum in Newton, NC. Welcome to the official Facebook page for the Southeastern Narrow Gauge and Shortline Museum! We are located in Newton, NC at the former junction of the Southern and Carolina & North-Western Railway. Our museum is operated by the Newton Depot Authority and the Alexander Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, and currently uses the Newton Depot, a Welcome Center next door (at 1111 N. Main Ave.) and a Pavilion across the railroad tracks from the Depot. We have a wide spectrum of railroad-related displays; from locomotive headlights to an 1877 narrow gauge boxcar; from model layouts to the active Norfolk Southern railroad operation that runs through the middle of our campus!
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RECENT FACEBOOK POSTS
facebook.comInstagram post by SE NG&S Museum • May 10, 2017 at 8:11pm UTC
Firing up the model trains for this weekend... How's THIS for a view?!?!?! 🛤️🚂 #TBT #NationalTrainDay https://www.instagram.com/p/BT7Lz_pjVsJ/
Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum
We're set up and running at the Hudson, NC Depot this morning and at our Museum. Model trains everywhere!!! We're also selling our merchandise at both locations...so you get twice the railroad dosage today... ;)
Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum
Here's a #FBF to last year's Town of Hudson Butterfly Festival, where we help run the Hudson Depot/Museum and bring some operating model railroads. We're doing it again TOMORROW, so come see what we're all about!!! We'll have some model railroad layouts set up on the front porch of the Hudson Depot near downtown...and don't forget that we're open from 9-4 at our Museum in Newton as well!
Alexander Chapter of the NRHS Meeting tonight in our historic Newton Depot at 7:30...come find out what we're all about and learn how to become involved!!! More information about our upcoming events as well...
National Train Day Celebration!
The Southeastern Narrow Gauge & Shortline Museum will host a celebration for "National Train Day" on Saturday, May 13th! The Museum's historic Newton Depot, Model Railroad Center, and Alexander Railroad Pavilion will be open. In addition to regular Museum activities, there will be a hotdog sale, films and presentations about the Museum's rolling stock will be shown, and much more to be announced! And for the first time ever, visitors and guests will be able to pose for pictures on the Museum's historic ET&WNC Motorcar #2! Admission is free, so don't miss out on this fun, train-filled day!
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#TBT to 11/22/16 where we see NS #4001 passing the "Local" train P95 less than a half mile from the Museum here in Newton. The #4001's empty coal train was heading west on the NS S-Line and P95 was waiting for it to pass so it could get off the South Newton Lead (Former Carolina & North-Western) and go west as well. As many railfans know, the specially-painted #4001 was recently heavily damaged (and possibly beyond repair) at a wreck in McVeytown, PA. *Most importantly, we're glad that the crews were unharmed in the wreck.*
Instagram post by SE NG&S Museum • Apr 20, 2017 at 8:59pm UTC
While our Newton Depot was open for Kiwanis' Port-a-Pit BBQ, some of our dedicated volunteers from the Alexander Chapter of the NRHS were busy at the New Jersey Museum of Transportation.... Why, you ask? Stay tuned for an update on Monday... https://instagram.com/p/BTHxfqRDbpF/
Instagram post by SE NG&S Museum • Apr 20, 2017 at 4:07pm UTC
Port-a-Pit BBQ chicken plates are selling fast...Come get some while you can!!! It's not every day that you get to have lunch in the historic Newton Depot... https://www.instagram.com/p/BTHP-eXDel6/
Instagram post by SE NG&S Museum • Nov 10, 2016 at 10:03pm UTC
Our local Kiwanis International Club is hosting a Port-a-Pit BBQ tomorrow at the Museum starting at 11:00 a.m. TOMORROW, Thursday, April 20th. Come by and support Kiwanis while you have a meal and get to tour our historic Newton Depot!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/BMpUvGCjUMk/
One week ago today at our Hickory Train Show... Our Museum Coordinator talks to vendors and groups at the show that make it so special. If you've never been, take a look!!! Trains, trains everywhere... Special thanks to Joseph F Photography for producing the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f20-CFZFbg&t=3s
Click here to support Norfolk Southern 375 Caboose Fund organized by Tim Carroll
Have a look at the campaign to restore original N.S. caboose #375, sister caboose to our #376!!! Great work being done... https://www.gofundme.com/4uc3v3vx