Model Railroading Blog and News

The Winter 2021 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, November 15, 2021 and will be held online as a virtual Zoom meeting. Our November presentation will be “Easy Weathering Techniques” by Dave Frary and Bob Hayden. They will show you their easy techniques for ...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 18, 2021 and will be held online as a virtual Zoom meeting. Dave Ackmann will present "2 and 1/2D CAD" - how Dave uses PowerPoint as Computer Aided Design software for his model railroad. Advanced Po...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 20, 2021 and will be held online as a virtual Zoom meeting. "The White Pass and Yukon Journey" is a historical documentary following the origins of the railroad from the Klondike Gold Rush era to t...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, August 16, 2021 and will be held online as a virtual Zoom meeting. “Easy Weathering Techniques” by Dave Frary and Bob Hayden show their easy techniques for weathering model railroad rolling stock, flex-track...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 19, 2021 and will be held online as a virtual Zoom meeting. Dave Lowell will present color movies of the C&IM in the early 1950s. Large 2-10-2s, diminutive 4-4-0s, and scenes along the line....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 21, 2021 and will be held online as a virtual Zoom meeting. Peter Weiglin of the Cincinnati Division 7 of the Mid Central region will present "Railway Mail Service and RPO Cars." Learn more about this v...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 17, 2021 and will be held online as a virtual Zoom meeting. David Ackmann will present on Creating Custom Decals. Dave will demonstrate a wide range of applications where they can be integrated into exis...

The Fall 2020 quarterly members newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA, The RPO, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....