Model Railroading Blog and News

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20, 2014 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Dave Roeder, MMR, will present on the techniques used for his scratchbuilt and kitbashed models of the depots at Ferguson and Webster Groves...

The third 2013 issue of the Caboose Kibitzer, published by the Mid-Continent Region of the NMRA, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....

Bob's Illinois Southern model railroad is an HO scale freelance merger of the Illinois Central and GM&O set in southern Illinois in the 1950s. The walk-in, loop-to-loop, single-track layout features a 153-foot mainline run, Digitrax DCC, and a Masonite and drywall backdrop....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, December 16, 2013 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars‎ Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. Bring your “Paper Diorama Contest” entry for judging and display. Judging will be by popular vote with awards made in two catego...

On Saturday, October 5, 2013, the St. Louis Chapter NRHS and the Gateway Division NMRA held their 6th Annual Picnic at the Wabash, Frisco and Pacific Railroad, Glencoe, Missouri....

Mike Wise’s completely sceniced HO scale model railroad is a walk in loop to loop, single track main, point to point switching district design with a 78-foot mainline run. This freelance layout, set in St. Louis in 1966, features highly detailed city and industrial areas filled with c...

The St. Charles Central is the large 23'x33' HO scale layout of the St. Charles Model Railroad Club. This completely sceniced, 1970s-era, freelance railroad is set in eastern Missouri and northern Arkansas. If features a 400-foot mainline, over 130 detailed structures, and a Masonite ...

The annual Gateway Division holiday party will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. A pot-luck dinner will be served and members are asked to bring a side dish or dessert for the dinner. The meat, beverage and utensils are furnishe...

John's 2-rail, O-scale Rock Island Lines captures the St. Louis to Kansas City route through the Ozark Mountains of 1948 to 1952. Using an around-the-walls with peninsula Walk-in with duckunder design, the layout has a 170-foot, single-track mainline that regularly runs 35-car freight...