French Broad e'N'pire NTRAK Club

The French Broad E‘N’pire NTRAK Club is a model railroad organization consisting of 12 members from Hendersonville and surrounding communities who model in “N” scale. Our club has been in existence for over 16 years and meets in a leased building at 229B Washington St. in downtown Hendersonville. We have semi-permanant N-scale layout that fills our 23' x 40' building with 150 linear feet of NTRAK modules. We meet to work on or operate the layout on Wednesday nights from about 7 to 10 p.m. There is a business meeting on the first Wednesday of each month held in the meeting room at the Hendersonville train depot. The club members put on two model railroad swap meets, “Spring Rails and Autumn Rails,” each year in April and October at the adjacent Whitmire Activity Center. We also participate in NTRAK shows from time to time.

Our club gets it’s name from the Greenville and French Broad River Railroad, an actual railroad chartered in 1855 to operate between Greenville and Asheville. The real railroad was never constructed, but lives in history and as interpreted on our model railroad layout as the French Broad River Railroad.

Directions:
Take Exit 49B from I-26 and drive 2 miles west on Four Seasons Blvd. to the light at Church St. (one way south). Turn left and go 8 blocks to Barnwell St. and turn right. Go to the next street (Washington) and continue into the driveway beside the stone church, then turn right. Our building will be straight ahead of you.

Go to www.fbe-ntrak.com or contact Chuck Place at 828-685-2726 or hmp3@blueridge.net for more information.