Model Railroading Blog and News

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 15, 2013 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Swap meet and videos on model and prototype railroading. Dig out your surplus equipment, clean it up and bring it to the swap meet. You migh...

During the transition era, the New York Central operated the second-largest U.S. railroad freight car fleet. A well-balanced freight car fleet on any model railroad should therefore include a selection of New York Central Cars. This article presents appropriate freight car models in H...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 17, 2013 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars‎ Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. Phil Bonzon MMR will demonstrate his technique for turning ceiling tile into rock buffs. This is a quick, inexpensive and effective ...

Scenes need to look realistic in order to be credible. See how to achieve this with a few details along with items from the parts box....

A recent Gateway NMRA meeting clinic on making paper buildings intrigued me enough to try it. Here are my first impressions using this new option for adding structures to my model railroad....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 20, 2013 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Model kits for our annual kitbash contest will be distributed to members to be returned completed for display and/or judging at the September...

August 5th and 6th at the Gateway Convention Center marked the first time the St. Louis RPM community joined forces with the NMRA’s Gateway Division. The RPM and NMRA communities in St. Louis have always worked together in the past, but 2012 was the first year that the two groups publ...

Join a tour in words and photos of the Roundhouse Railroad Museum in Savanah, GA. Seventeen buildings remain from the facility constructed between 1850 and 1860....

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