Model Railroading Blog and News

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...

Went to Eureka looking for snow pictures. Not much snow, and what there was, was dirty snow. Here are four shots from the trip. A good afternoon at Eureka. Enjoy....

Bob has created a beautiful fully-sceniced modern-era BNSF N scale model railroad empire in the two-car garage and lower level of his split-level home. The layout features a single-track mainline with hidden staging and an industrial branchline that leads to a highly detailed, very im...

Railroad friend Hank Kraichely and I went looking for trains. Found some. The first two shots are at Dozier Crossing, about two miles east of downtown Pacific, plus two more shots in Pacific. Rounding out this collection are three more local trains I have shot the last couple of weeks...

A joint group visit and operating session for members of the Gateway Division National Model Railroad Association and the St. Louis Chapter National Railway Historical Society will take place Saturday, March 7, 2015, to see and operate trains on the Litchfield Train Group's great HO s...

St. Louis modeler and photographer Gary Hoover is nationally known for his beautiful model railroads and amazing model photography skills. He is currently in the third major rebuild of his 24'x49' basement model railroad, and the design goals and philosophy, new track plan, and his mo...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 16, 2015 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. Lonnie Bathurst and Mark Lewis will show photos of the Litchfield Train Group layout and describe the various scenes and towns. T...