Model Railroading Blog and News

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 16, 2018 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. David Lowell will present a clinic on his methods for applying decals. He'll provide a brief instructional presentation followed by a hands-...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 18, 2018 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, Illinois. Pete Smith will take us on a photographic tour of his layout while discussing the design concept and some of the modeling techniques he used. Our monthly ...

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

What model railroad club is eighty years old this year and has been located in the same building for the whole time? It is also the oldest model railroad club in the St. Louis area, and because of this club the building it is located in - a former railroad depot - has been in continuo...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 21, 2018 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Dave Roeder MMR will present his techniques of prototype modeling railroad, vehicle, structure, WWII tank, and dune buggy models. This includ...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 16, 2018 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, Illinois. Illinois Valley Division member Thomas Ose will present "Arduino and Model Railroading." Arduinos are inexpensive, small computers that have many differe...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 19, 2018 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Carl Wessel will discuss how he got onto the Kankakee Belt and a bit of it's history, the materials he has to base the layout and operation...

Joe's freelanced HO scale East Bluff Terminal Railroad models Illinois along the Mississippi river bluffs in 1971. 95' of single-track mainline follows the around-the-walls layout design with a grain complex peninsula, a duckunder at the doorway, and a 13-track single-ended staging ya...

Members of the Gateway Division of the NMRA and the St. Louis Chapter of the NRHS reached across the vast and polarizing isle of railroad related interest camps, put away our differences and embarked on a joint adventure. A day of railroad-related activities at the Iron Spike Railroad...