FREE public open house events have been an important aspect of BMRC since its beginning. The practice of holding monthly open houses has been going on here for nearly 30 years. And we are somewhat unique in that most clubs have no more than one open house per year and they dread even that. Naturally, model railroaders love to show off their work to other model railroaders and the general public. But we also know that there are many folks out there who love railroads, trains, and the way they operate as much as we do. Interestingly, we have found that there are many former or current railroad employees who attend our open houses. Our members enjoy open houses as much as our visitors do and that always makes for a very friendly event.
Most open house events have 6-8 trains of our members’ favorite railroads operating. The trains vary a lot in the era in which the prototypes operated. We usually have steam trains of the 1940’s running with very modern diesel-electric trains so your railroad memories are probably represented. And our Appalachian Mountain scenery usually gets as much attention as our trains do.
We schedule monthly 2-day open house weekends from September through April. Future open house events in the 2024-25 season are as follows:
Nov. 9-10, 2024
Dec. 14-15, 2014
Jan. 18-19, 2025
Feb. 22-23, 2025
Mar. 15-16, 2025
Apr. 19-20, 2025