What: The Garden State Central Model Railroad Club, Inc. of Asbury Park will host its 44th Annual Open House this October. The event will feature a huge HO scale train layout with a 300 foot mainline traversing four rooms. A multimedia presentation and white elephant table will also be featured.
The railr oa d features prototype scenes modeled after actual places along the route from Scranton, PA to Jersey City, NJ. Highlights include the huge Bethlehem Steel Mill in Bethlehem, PA and the operating McMyler Car Dumping Machine which lifts entire coal cars into the air and turns them over to dump the loads out. Trains roll behind the the infamous Coney Island Texas Weiners in Scranton, past the well-known blue gas tank in Allentown and call on the docks of Jersey City… all in 1:87th scale!
Where: 607 8th Avenue, on the corner of Deal Lake Drive in North Asbury Park.