Model Railroading Blog and News

On Saturday, September 15, 2018, a joint group of 30 railfans from the St. Louis Chapter NRHS and the Gateway Division NMRA toured Continental Fabricators to learn how boilers, particularly steam locomotive boilers, and other heavy vessels were made. We learned a lot more details and ...

The Fall 2018 quarterly members newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA, The RPO, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....

LEDs are great for model building lighting, but working with and soldering individual LEDs can be tricky. Here is a very tiny (3/8-inch square) single LED module that is inexpensive, installs easily, and can be powered by any 12 volt DC power supply....

As is our tradition, we will not have a meeting in November; rather, we'll be holding our annual holiday party. This year's party will be Monday, November 19th, 6:30 p.m. at the Ballwin Golf Club, 333 Holloway Rd, Ballwin MO. Cost is $18.50 per person. Payment must be received no late...

Make sure to attend these clinics which are part of the 2018 Gateway NMRA St. Louis Train Show on Saturday, November 3, 2018. Learn about the Frisco 1522 steam program, Arduinos and model railroading, and learn hands-on how to decal your models. Find out more at https://www.gatewaynmr...

On September 15, members of the Gateway Division NMRA and St. Louis Chapter NRHS toured Continental Fabricators on Park Avenue in St. Louis. Continental fabricates pressure vessels, towers, drums, and many more items. They have special expertise in fabricating, restoring and rehabbing...

Gregor shows how to create realistic grass, weeds, and wild areas on your layout using static grass through photos of nature, his layout, and the step-by-step process to layer static grass....

Roger Verbeeren, President, Gateway Rail Services, gave an extensive tour of the rebuild shop, fabrication shop, wheel shop and some private rail passenger cars to a group of 24 railfans from the St. Louis Chapter NRHS and the Gateway Division NMRA....

Roger Verbeeren, President, gave 24 members of the Gateway NMRA and St. Louis NRHS an extensive tour of Gateway Rail Services, Inc. We visited their rebuild shop, fabrication shop, wheel shop, and two private rail passenger cars, as well as viewing their inventory of passenger equipme...