It is more important ever to become aware of our beginnings so we can better understand the present and chart more surely our future course. We feel that with the establishment of this museum on Hamlet, a town once bustling with many passenger trains and still humming with freight trains around the clock, we have the unique opportunity to both preserve a heritage and help create a sense of history, not only within the City and surrounding community, but in the nation as well. Our model train layout is an effort to represent the Seaboard Air Line Railway as it was in another time. We include such premier trains as the Orange Blossom Special, and the Silver Meteor. Railroads which became a part of SAL are also represented on our layout.
Realism is our goal.
When you see our Mallet and Mikado pulling a heavy freight train, you hear the sounds of a byegone era - the drivers churning, the steam escaping, and the steam whistle blowing the crossings. A sentimental look at railroad history is brought to you in HO gauge. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroads merged in 1967 to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, which became and is now CSX Transportation, a member of CSX Corporation. The Museum's purpose is to preserve railroad history and promote that history in modern-day railroading. Our exhibits include photographs and maps, displays, a model railroad layout, four pieces of rolling stock and a gift shop for your convenience.