Model Railroading Blog and News

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, December 15, 2014 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. This meeting features a swap meet and videos on model and prototype railroading. Dig out your surplus equipment, clean in up, and...

We have all visited beautiful layouts boasting meticulous track, detailed motive power and rolling stock, hundreds of citizens, large swaths of beautiful trees, and lots of buildings. Somewhere along the line, you start to recognize some of the structures as kits everyone has purchase...

The Gateway Division NMRA sponsored this contest to encourage member model building and skill improvement. Grandt Line Reese Street Row Houses kits were distributed at the June 21 Division meeting for this year's contest. Completed models were brought to the November 17 holiday party ...

The third 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 next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, November 17, 2014 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. We will have our annual pot-luck dinner and the display and judging of the "Kitbashing Contest" models that you built from kits distribu...

The Annual Gateway Division NMRA Train Show and Model Contest will be held November 1&2, 2014, 9 am to 3 pm Sat and 11 am to 3 pm Sun, at a new location this year - OC Joseph Chrysler in Belleville, Illinois. The Gateway Division Train Show features clinics on model railroading, swap ...

The Fall 2014 quarterly members newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA, The RPO, 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, October 20, 2014 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. This meeting is a "Bring it and Brag" session. Bring an interesting model or diorama that you built and give a brief presentation ...

An easy-to-make one-hour project: a Steak 'n Shake billboard of the 50s using a gift card and some plastic strips....