The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 20, 2015 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. John Carty will present "A Brief History of the East St. Louis & Suburban System" - a look at the Great East Side Electric Railway S...

Stake bed trucks have been hauling merchandise and supplies for the last 100 years. The Classic Metal Works 1946 Chevy stake bed truck is a great model for all transition-era layouts but a detailed load is needed for this truck to really set the scene....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 21, 2015 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. The focus of this special meeting will be on operations with an opportunity to operate on a local model railroad layout. The activities s...

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

The Litchfield Train Group's 55'x44' HO scale layout depicts the ever-gentle rolling countryside of Illinois from Centralia to Chicago. The scenery of the main room is set in the 50s/60s-era when steam engines were becoming extinct and diesel locomotives were gaining in popularity. Th...