On Saturday, September 6th, 2025, the Watauga Valley Railroad Historical Society and Museum will sponsor a steam train ...

Admission is free on all days. The 200-square-foot layout features trains and scenery ranging from traditional half-timbered houses and windmills to steam locomotives and bullet trains.

Climb aboard a 1928 steam engine used for the Long Island Railroad, which became Long Island’s last steam train after 27 years of service.

On Saturday and Sunday, L&KV will run only steam trains and on Jan. 7 and 8, all the trains will be modern. Most of the year, the museum is open to the public on the third Sunday of the month.

It was short in length -- but long in its reach. The Grizzly Flats Railroad’s steam engines traveled for 70 years along a 500-foot-long stretch of rails next to the San Gabriel home of Betty and ...