Model Railroading Blog and News

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 17, 2016 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, IL. We learned how to lay track and ballast it at our June meeting. Now, our “Basics of Model Railroading” series continues with Brian Post's discussion on how t...

Small, family-owned IGA grocery stores are a part of small town main streets across the United States. Woodland Scenics has perfectly captured this type of store with their J. Frank's IGA grocery model....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 19, 2016 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Jeremy Janzen will demonstrate the computer-aided drafting program called XTrkCAD. This free computer software can help you plan your n...

I model the transition era of the late 1950s. It was a time of distinctive automobiles, many of which are now classics. When you see early Thunderbirds and Corvettes, classic Chevy Bel-Airs and tailfins you immediately know the era. The 1958 Edsel advertising said "Once you've seen it...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, August 15, 2016 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, IL. John Marx will demonstrate how to build simple shacks from plastic sheet and other items already in your scrap box. Our monthly meetings are always open to th...

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

The Gateway Division NMRA sponsored an Operations Night Saturday, April 30, 2016. Operating sessions for NMRA members were available at three area model railroads. Jason Janzen and Dale DeWitt share their experiences of the event....

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

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 18, 2016 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Gary Brandenburger will present an LED lighting clinic which covers both the electronics basics that folks need and how to do things with LE...