Model Railroading Blog and News

After nine months and hundreds of hours of work, I am proud to announce that the new GatewayNMRA.org website is now online. This major update is the third version of the GatewayNMRA.org website, and represents the site's second major revision in it's fifteen-year history....

The Gateway Division NMRA and The St. Louis Chapter NRHS are having a joint picnic on Saturday, October 5, 2013 at the Wabash, Frisco & Pacific Railroad in Glencoe, Missouri....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. The model kits that were distributed to members in the May 20 meeting are to be returned and displayed and/or judged. Prizes will be awarde...

A mobile substation car provides power to the overhead traction wire in order to keep trains running while line crews conducted repairs to a substation or other power source. Since I model the East St. Louis & Suburban Railway System in HO scale, such a car provides a unique piece of ...

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

Ken Kroschwtz has a huge HO layout filling a 60×81 foot railroad room. The layout includes three major railroads (ATSF, UP & SP) that all interchange with each other, two short lines, and five major industries. The ATSF includes a 255' double track main line and a 19 track yard. The U...

Video of the progress on Bill Linson's Paducah and Lake Erie HO scale modern day coal-hauling railroad set in the Allegheny Mountains of southwestern Pennsylvania....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, August 19, 2013 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars‎ Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. Contest Instructions for building a paper diorama will be distributed to members with the completed diorama to be returned complet...

Welcome to hills and hollers of West Virginia and the 1950s on the B&O and Buffalo Creek & Gauley....