Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke

This is a great way to kill a couple hours or more if weather prevents you from doing more outdoor activities. The museum has a nice mixture of different types of transportation on display, but not a lot of each. They have real planes, trains, and automobiles on display here just not a lot. What they do have is very interesting and unique. The model ships and boats are exceptional and displayed well for everyone to see. There’s a simulation plane that you climb in the cabin, sit, and look around. The rail yard is really impressive with 3 locomotives that you can go out and look at if you choose. The automobile inventory, thought limited, is still impressive and worth checking out.

Really fun museum. It seems to be geared more towards kids, but I enjoyed seeing the old cars and trains anyway. Really liked the few trains that they had built up a little entrance so you could go inside of them. The caboose was a really neat example of that. Ticket price is a little high for what it is, but then it can't be cheap to run such a museum.