What is your clubs name, what do you model there, and where are your clubs located?
Bricktown Model Railroaders Association
We model the East broad Top from the Rockhill shops to where it meets the PRR mainlines out side of MT Union 40’s - 50’s
We are located in Mt Union, PA
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Cochise & Western Model Railroad Club
Sierra Vista, Arizona
Freelance HO and N scale layouts, with members free to run whatever they wish.
http://users.ssvecnet.com/cacole
This Web site will up changed and updated, and put onto a different ISP, in upcoming months.
Southern Niagara Model Railroad. We are located at Moore McCleary’s wearhousing facilities in Thorold, Ontario in a 45 foot trailer. We are HO but we have members who are into N and even G scale.
We encourage new members but we don’t have a running layout at the moment but that will change within months. We railfan, go to each others houses and generally have a good time doing almost anything possible to have fun with trains.
name: Järfälla modell järnvägs klubb, JMJK
model: H0 scale with American prototype
location: Viksjö, close to Stockholm, Sweden
link: http://jmjk.nu/
We have a new link “name” http://jmjk.se/
Saint John Society of Model Railroaders, established 1984 - HO scale modular layout. Read all about us here: http://www.geocities.com/sjsmrr/
Bob Boudreau
Our club is called “The Wrecking Crew”. See us at
http://wreckingcrew.railfan.net
We model the north central portion of Alabama, just NW of B’ham. Our RR is called the Locust Grove and Western, named after two SMALL towns near here, Pleasant Grove and Locust Fork.
The original members were made up of the group that put on the 1988 NMRA National Convention in B’ham.
We currently have a store front in an abandoned mall here, and are planning a permanent addition to our modular layout. Since part of our ability to stay in the mall depends on us being open to the public, we’re designing an addition that will stay in the mall, and be open, when the modules leave for a show.
YMRA- Youth Model Railroad Association
N-G scales Central IA. 18 yrs. and under
The Radcliff Model Railroad Association is located in Radcliff, Kentucky. We are close to Fort Knox and Louisville. Stop at Lowery’s Model Trains and take a look at our layouts in both HO and N scale. We will have our portable N Scale layout at GATS in Louisville in December and Greenbergs Show in January. We hope to debut our new HO modular layout at Greenbergs.
This a great thread for all those clubs out there to sound off!!!
Quote “This a great thread for all those clubs out there to sound off!!!” --SSW9389
I figured that your clubs can get some Free Air Time, you never know who is reading, possibly new members!
Swedetrain,
I wish I could read Swedi***o know exactly what the text was on your clubs website, but from looking at the pictures it is one awesome layout! You must be very proud of it… [:)]
Jacon
Actually, if you go to the site and click on the little British flag in the lower left, text in English will magically appear.
Andre
See the FIX-ME! at www.fcsme.org and in GMR 2005.
I belong to the Great Northern, Eastern, Western, & Southern railroad club, an outreach group of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Kingwood. The Great N.E.W.S. RR club has about 15 members and has built a 12’ x 24’ HO sectional layout. I say “sectional” since the tables are modular (24" wide by either 48" or 96") but the order is determined by the track plan and is not interchangeable. We have two high-speed main lines, an industrial line and a large yard with drill tracks at each end. The curves were laid out using templates developed from John Armstrong’s procedure for laying out transition spirals. Most of our mainline curves are 45" radius with transition spirals and super-elevation. All mainline turnouts are Peco large-radius (60" diverging route radius) electrofrog. Yard turnouts are Peco medium-radius (36" diverging route radius) electrofrog. Wired for DCC, the layout was run for several months on DC to debug. We are presently in the process of ballasting.
With members from all over the country, we plan to run whatever the members have (hopefully to some reasonable standards). The layout is designed with operation in mind, since several members have been exposed to realistic operation and are now “bitten” by the bug. We found out that quite a few of us have European equipment, so we plan to operate that every once in a while.
One member has a large area where the layout can remain assembled during the winter months, but it is too hot during the summer, so the layout is dismantled and stored at the church during the summer, where some of the members can work on it during the day.
Our layout will be on display Nov. 13 and 14 as part of the Houston area layout tours. Interested parties can see our progress to date at 2929 Woodland Hills Drive, Kingwood, Texas from 12:00 - 5:00 Saturday and 1:00 - 4:00 Sunday.
Mark C.
I belong to 2 clubs:
Port Townsend Southern (was Milw. Rd.), Port Townsend, WA HO- individuals homes - lost our fixed layout space, dismantled layout.
North Olympic Peninsula Railroad, Sequim, WA HO- Modular
Right at the tippy-tippy top of Maine, where the St. John river separates the U.S. and Canada, there are two communities - Edmundston, N.B. on the Canadian side and Madawaska, Me. on the U.S. side. When you pass by on the upper trans-Canada highway, this looks like one large city as the St.John is a very small river. Here we have the “Temiscouata Model Railroad Engineers” which is an International Round-robin type club with 8 members - 6 of which have large layouts in HO gauge. We get together EVERY Friday evening - year round - and operate or work on each others layouts. At present we have only one U.S. member, but our “doors” are always open. The only requirement is that you have an operating, or nearly ready to operate, layout. We have two members that work with members who have layouts, so we feel they qualify.
Norman
Hi CSXMU
Do you go to the Open Houses and stuff at East Broad Top? If so, we’ve probably talked or something. My Mother grew up in Robertsdale, leaving home in 1944 to become an Army nurse. My Grandfather, his brothers, and his father all worked for the Rockhill Coal Co (2 of them were killed in the mines). I still have two aunts living in Robertsdale, and visit there often. When I was a young boy, 35 years ago, my Grandfather would take me around to all the mining and railroading stuff in there in Robertsdale.
When my kids go off to college, and I have more time, I’m going to model the EBT and PRR interchange. Now, we have a small, switching layout …Conrail interchange with our own private industrial railroad. I had to do a Conrail layout becuasue that’s all my kids have seen their lives…big blue Conrail engines everywhere.
Jim
Jim
I am the Treasurer of the Clarion Model Railroad Club in Clarion, PA. I have been a member for 20 years, and have seen a lot of changes to the club. We even survived a fire in 1990.
We have been at our present location over 10 years and have 5 scales represented. A combination Lionel/American Flyer S gauge layout (23 x 15), HO double deck layout (34 x 25) representing our former Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion RR (LEF&C), A N scale layout (25 x 6) double deck layout and a G scale layout around the ceiling of the room.
We meet every Wednesday night from 7:00 to 9:00pm. We also have a Hobby shop!
BOB H Clarion, PA
Otterville Area N Scalers
Otterville, MO
membership=1, me
Ron
i belong to the olde newburgh model railroad club. the club meeting hall is in walden ny. it has a fixed ho layout and a traveling modular ho layout. we also have an n scale layout under construction. the modular layout will be operating at the newburgh mall tomorrow. there are about 12 members and the layouts are freelanced with the members running whatever equipment they wish.
Grand Rapids Model Railroad Historical Society
We model Pere Marquette in the 1940-50 era
Grand Rapids, MI