The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. CDT on Monday, December 19, 2022. This in-person meeting will also be available via Zoom. Dave Lowell will discuss "Scratch Building Avenue Tower." This is a combination of the history of interlocking towers in general...

Make sure to attend these clinics which are part of the 2019 Gateway NMRA St. Louis Train Show on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Learn about the DCC++ and JMRI, N & HO Scale Locomotive Maintenance, and Scratchbuilding Billboards for Your Model Railroad. Find out more at https://www.gatew...

Dave’s YouTube videos support his clinic “Building Billboards for the Baden, Vogt and DeSmet” which he recently presented at an Gateway Division NMRA monthly meeting. In both the clinic and the videos, Dave describes why he thinks making your own billboards is a good idea, how to retr...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 20, 2017 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, Illinois. Jon Marx will explain and demonstrate how to build a simple structure that can be easily modified, depending on the intended purpose, and show just ho...

David Lowell’s HO scale scratchbuilt Avenue Tower won Best of Show at the 2016 Gateway Division NMRA model contest, receiving an NMRA merit judged score of 118 points. This beautiful online structure has an equally detailed and beautiful interior....

John Carty’s kitbashed Roesch Enamel Range factory won second place in the Online Structures category at the 2016 Gateway Division NMRA model contest and had an NMRA merit judged score of 105. John scratchbuilds intricate interiors using standard wood and plastic stock....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, August 15, 2016 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, IL. John Marx will demonstrate how to build simple shacks from plastic sheet and other items already in your scrap box. Our monthly meetings are always open to th...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 18, 2016 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, IL. John Carty will present his techniques for creating realistic structures and models from photographs. Come see how he creates these fine reproductions of actua...

The Winter 2016 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, Sept. 21, 2015 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Phil Bonzon MMR will take you thru the process of building the three award-winning HO scale steam locomotives that swept the 2012 NMRA Nati...

John Carty describes the steps to create an HO scale model of a Wabash Lima-Hamilton diesel switcher....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, August 18, 2014 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. Master Model Railroader and consistent model contest award winner Dave Roeder will discuss building with styrene and show how he bu...