The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 21, 2014 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Gregor Moe will present a clinic on the use of static grass to achieve realistic scenery on your model railroad layout. The clinic will incl...

Jerry's amazing N scale Great Empire layout is an enormous 22'x46' with a 17’x6’ addition that serves as the passenger/freight yard. The double-track mainline is a scale 15 miles in length and the curves are a broad 30” and 36” radius....

The first annual Gateway Division Paper Diorama Contest concluded at the January 21, 2014 division meeting. Tom Trotter, Tim Stout, and John Carty describe the construction of their contest winning models....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 16, 2014 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. As a continuation of the Gateway NMRA painting and weathering clinic series, Master Model Railroader and consistent model contest awa...

The second 2014 issue of the Caboose Kibitzer, published by the Mid-Continent Region of the NMRA, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....

John Peluso's beautiful 16'x30' HO scale double-deck Frisco layout features broad curves, rolling tree covered hills, two deck truss bridges, a helix, and five towns: Webster Groves, Rolla, St. James, Dillon, and Dixon....

I am a sucker for “interesting” motive power and rolling stock. Here's how I scratchbuilt an HO scale model of a chlorine railroad car....

Our round-robin railroad group has been working on large 3-rail “O” gauge layout. It has a long (about 8 feet) grade that climbs to cross over a river bridge and mostly parallels an edge of the layout - leaving a problem for the scenery along the edge. We decided to build a Styrofoam ...