Hello,
I am visiting New York City/Manhattan and I would visit, if possible an model railroad club.
Are/Is there (a) model railroad club(s) in the surroundings of New York/Manhattan( Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island,…), Newark/New Jersey.
Thank you in advance for the information
Googling “model railroading club+new york city” gave me several hits. Altering the wording may give you others…
The New York Society of Model Engineers Carlstadt NJ.
Gullivers Gate in NYC (Manhattan) is the place to go (Not a train club, but worth visiting).
Model Railroader did a review on it as well.
http://mrr.trains.com/news-reviews/new-products/2017/05/gullivers-gate-model-railroad-exhibit-opens
On Long Island there’s the West Island Model Railroad Club
https://www.westislandmodelrailroadclub.com/home.html
In Union, NJ is the Model Railroad Club. This has a great layout as well.
http://www.themodelrailroadclub.org/
In Northern New Jersey is the Garden State Model Railway Club.
This should keep you busy for a while…
Neal
The big question is whether you will have access to a car or are you confined to clubs that can be visted by public transit?
Please let me know and I will be able to make a few suggestions.
The New York City Transit Museum can be reached via the subway and is certainly worth a trip
Kevin
I went to Gulliver’s Gate a couple of years ago. I enjoyed it, but they had a nice senior discount at the time.
Trainworld might be worth seeing.
Probably not unless you go to the flagship store in Long Island which can be reached by LIRR.
OTOH you can pick up your orders in either stor .
I was going to recommend the Bay Ridge club in Brooklyn, but just learned they were evicted, and are moving up the Hudson. Now, there will be TWO O scale clubs in Kingston.
Or not. The other club hasn’t posted on Facebook since 2017, and I cant find any website.
Hello all,
Thank you all for the info