Model Railroading Blog and News

A group of us made our annual summer journey to Cresson, Pennsylvania (Horseshoe Curve area) last week, and here are a few photos from that trip....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 15, 2014 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Brian Post will explain and demonstrate how to use your smart phone as a throttle to operate your DCC layout. This will be a hands-on c...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, August 18, 2014 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. Master Model Railroader and consistent model contest award winner Dave Roeder will discuss building with styrene and show how he bu...

The Summer 2014 quarterly members newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA, The RPO, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....

Our annual Kitbash Contest kit will be distributed, along with the contest instructions, at the Gateway Division NMRA monthly meeting on Monday, July 21, 2014 at Trinity Church. The kit is an ideal structure kit for kitbashing and is available in HO and N scales....

Patrick brings first-hand railroad experience to model railroading. His HO scale Cotton Belt is a point-to-point railroad designed for operation. The yard represents Jonesboro, Arkansas with East St. Louis, Memphis, and Pine Bluff staging yards....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 21, 2014 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Gregor Moe will present a clinic on the use of static grass to achieve realistic scenery on your model railroad layout. The clinic will incl...

Jerry's amazing N scale Great Empire layout is an enormous 22'x46' with a 17’x6’ addition that serves as the passenger/freight yard. The double-track mainline is a scale 15 miles in length and the curves are a broad 30” and 36” radius....

The first annual Gateway Division Paper Diorama Contest concluded at the January 21, 2014 division meeting. Tom Trotter, Tim Stout, and John Carty describe the construction of their contest winning models....