Old Dominion Rail Operations

03/29/2026

With the arrival of spring and pleasant weather, come join us at the Old Dominion Chapter Hallsboro railyard for our Open House on Saturday, May 23. Explore historic locomotives, tour the railyard, and enjoy the fun for train lovers of all ages.

Bring your friends and family—admission is free, and adventure is on track! 🚉

01/31/2026

Hey folks, dejavu again this weekend. Due to the predicted winter weather revisiting us the Richmond Railroad Museum will be closed on Saturday and Sunday. The tough decision was made to make sure both our guests and volunteers remain safe during this crazy winter weather. But rest assured, we will do everything we can to be back open next weekend to hear stories about January's exit strategy and February's wild entrance 🥶😄👍!

01/24/2026

Hey folks, just wanted to get this message out that the Richmond Railroad Museum will be closed on Sunday due to the winter storm coming through Richmond. Be back open next weekend to hear stories about January's exit strategy 🥶😄👍

11/04/2025

Just a few pictures from our open house on Saturday. Enjoyed seeing everyone out on a great sunny Saturday. Many thanks to food truck for coming out and serving some excellent lunch for us. We are reviewing options for another general public open house but nothing firm yet. So again thanks to those who were able to come out and hope y'all had a great time walking through passenger cars and riding our caboose hop to the crossing and back. See ya next time 😁.

10/20/2025

Coming up this November 1st! From 10:00 - 4:00 we will be having our open house for the enjoyment for the viewing public at our Hallsboro rail yard.
Come and see our rolling stock and locomotives at 1611 County Line Rd, Midlothian, VA 23112

10/16/2025

Coming up this Monday 20th 7:00 PM will be our monthly members meeting. We will be having a presentation and slide show for you about the RF&P railroad. Also a nice bonus if you are a member of the Old Dominion Chapter is you can always get access to our monthly newsletter. We have a sample you can look at in the link below.

10/03/2025

Good news!! After a summer of hard work by our members at the Hallsboro Yard, we completed many projects. With those accomplishments behind up, we are hosting an open house for the public to showcase these efforts and interact with our members. Mark your calendar for Saturday November 1st between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm and come on down to the yard at 1611 County Line Road Midlothian, VA (entrance is on County Line road just north of the railroad crossing). More details to come as we get closer to the open house.

A suggested donation of $5.00 per person ($15 max per family - kids 6 and under are free) will be collected to help fund our on-going projects. One item I can promise is that we will clean up and look a lot nicer than the picture here (taken on Saturday after finishing up a few projects in the rain).

09/26/2025

09/23/2025

In the meantime while work progresses at Hallsboro yard, we'd like to show the progress on our workhorse GP-7 RF&P 101 of what has been accomplished. Many thanks to Devin Grey and the French Lick Scenic Railway (FLSR) for all the work being accomplished. Having an enclosed shop building is so nice. One day we hope to have the same at Hallsboro yard here in the Richmond area. And if anyone is interested in helping with equipment projects, we have several ongoing at Hallsboro yard 😁👍.

09/22/2025

While we are still looking for a place to run excursions, wanted to show everyone some of the work we are actively doing on our yard at Hallsboro. And always looking for some new folks interested in helping with the yard and museum 😄!

08/17/2025

I know there aren't any excursions running right now but if you are interested, the ODC group is having members picture night at the Richmond Railroad Museum in downtown Richmond Monday August 18 beginning at 7:00 pm. If you are interested, come on down and bring 10 to 12 of your favorite rail related pictures to share. We will have a slide projector available and if you have digital pics on a thumb drive, we can do that too. Look forward to seeing some new faces tomorrow 😁👍