David Bufka's modern-era model railroad is located in a finished 12'x15' attic room in his 100-year-old farmhouse. Union Pacific, Illinois Terminal and BNSF trains pass through the countryside, cityscape, and downtown yard scenes on this HO scale railroad. Dave has been working on his...
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 next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 18, 2013 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Dale Jenkins, the President of the Illinois Traction Society, will present a prototype clinic on the history and operations of the Illinois...