Model Railroading Blog and News

The Annual Gateway Division NMRA Train Show and Model Contest will be held November 2, 2013, 9 am to 3 pm, at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. The Gateway Division Train Show features clinics on model railroading, swap tables, model and photo contests, and home train ...

The American Flyer S Gaugers of the St. Louis Area (AFSGSLA) model train club installed and maintained a large Christmas train layout in a display window of the downtown Farmous-Barr store for the last 25 years. The layout will now be displayed at the Museum of Transportation in St. L...

The Fall 2013 quarterly members newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA, The RPO, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....

A bunch of us were in the Horseshoe Curve area in April 2012 ... and weather was lot less than optimal. But we captured lots of beautiful trains....

Nearing completion from a total rebuild begun about two years ago, the largest yard of the Springfield & Ozark Railway is a focal point for the oldest model railroad club in the St. Louis area, the Big Bend Railroad Club....

The “Grandt Line Reese Street Row House” kit was the starting point for the 2013 kitbashing contest. The only restriction placed on the contest model was that the base could not be more than one square foot in area. Here are photos of all the models entered in the contest, and the con...

The Kansas City area in the late 60s is represented on Bill's 29’x17’ layout. Red MKT diesels dominate, but there is also a good representation of KCS and Wabash with a little RI also present. A very large city is modeled which contains a scale 450’ steel viaduct. There is also a huge...

Photo gallery of Brian Post's Sierra Nevada and Indian River Railway....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 21, 2013 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars‎ Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. John Carty will present "Kitbashing for Dummies." Ready to run, build-ups, and kits provide modelers with a variety of motive pow...