Model Railroading Blog and News

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 16, 2014 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. As a continuation of the Gateway NMRA painting and weathering clinic series, Master Model Railroader and consistent model contest awa...

The second 2014 issue of the Caboose Kibitzer, published by the Mid-Continent Region of the NMRA, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....

John Peluso's beautiful 16'x30' HO scale double-deck Frisco layout features broad curves, rolling tree covered hills, two deck truss bridges, a helix, and five towns: Webster Groves, Rolla, St. James, Dillon, and Dixon....

I am a sucker for “interesting” motive power and rolling stock. Here's how I scratchbuilt an HO scale model of a chlorine railroad car....

Our round-robin railroad group has been working on large 3-rail “O” gauge layout. It has a long (about 8 feet) grade that climbs to cross over a river bridge and mostly parallels an edge of the layout - leaving a problem for the scenery along the edge. We decided to build a Styrofoam ...

Just back from our Spring Railfan trip to Cresson and the Horseshoe Curve area. Weather was atrocious, but had a good time with railroad friends at the Station Inn. Weather hampered photography, but here are five of the better ones in the seven days we were there. Enjoy!...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 19, 2014 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. This extended-length clinic will first review the basic steps to paint with an airbrush. Then participants will have an opportunity to paint ...

The Spring 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, April 21, 2014 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. The clinic will be cover the basics of painting with an airbrush. We will begin with a video in which an expert covers all the steps...