Model Railroading Blog and News

Chris Oestreich organized Division operating sessions on John Schindler’s St. Louis Junction Railroad and Bob Johnson's Pseudo-Soo Lines in November. It was a great evening of enjoying fine layouts and the fellowship of others with similar interests. Here are 21 photos from the St. Lo...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, January 16, 2017 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Dave Lowell will discuss techniques he uses to create his highly detailed gondolas. Techniques include how he adds dents and creases to m...

The new Iron Spike Model Railroad Museum in Washington, Missouri has made amazing progress. The large building, which began life as an 90'x75' automobile dealership, features HO, N, and G scales is various stages of completion, a “hands on” switching puzzle, and a play room for the li...

The Fall 2016 quarterly members newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA, The RPO, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....

David Lowell’s Chicago & Illinois Midland Railroad is a 10’x16’ oval with a 15-foot shelf extension. It depicts the southern two-thirds of the Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway’s 121 mile route between Peoria and Taylorville Illinois in the mid 1950s....

The fourth 2016 issue of the Caboose Kibitzer, published by the Mid-Continent Region of the NMRA, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....

As a special member's event, Gateway NMRA and St. Louis NRHS members are invited to visit, tour and operate HO model trains at K-10’s Model Trains, 19 Schiber Court, Maryville, Illinois, on Saturday, October 29, 2016, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Sign up at the next meeting or contact Ron G...

This year's Division Holiday Party will be a catered event at a new location. The party will start at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, November 21, 2016 at the Ballwin Golf Course, 333 Holloway Rd., Ballwin, MO 63011. The event will be catered by Callier's Catering. Cost is $11 per person. Please...

The Gateway Division NMRA leadership team has completed review of the results of our member survey and we’re starting to work on implement the findings. we’re going to need your help implement the changes. We sent out 214 surveys and received 68 responses. Please review the findings a...