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Gateway NMRA

The Gateway Division NMRA is the greater Saint Louis area chapter of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA), the world's largest organization devoted to the development, promotion, and enjoyment of the hobby of model railroading. You'll want to bookmark this model railroad web site for future visits.

Featured New Website Content & Articles

New GatewayNMRA.org website under development
We are working on a significantly enhanced upgrade of the GatewayNMRA.org website. It is designed with simpler navigation, support for mobile devices (phones and tablets), and will allow us to publish new content quicker and easier. If you have comments, please email us at website@gatewaynmra.org.
Download the Spring 2013 edition of the RPO (pdf 1.7MB).
Download the new Spring 2013 edition of the RPO (pdf 1.7MB).
2011 Model Railroad Contest Winners YouTube Video.
See sixty photos of the winning models and photographs from the contests at the November 2011 Gateway NMRA Train Show or watch them on our new YouTube channel.
See 12 photos of Mike Wise's Scale Sugar Creek Valley HO scale model railroad.
Mike Wise's completely sceniced HO scale Scale Sugar Creek Valley model railroad is a point to point switching district design with a 78-foot mainline run set in St. Louis in 1966 featuring a large "Anheuser Busch" brewery. See 12 photos of this detailed layout.
See 14 photos of Rene LaVoise's Sedalia & Warsaw model railroad.
Rene LaVoise's operations-oriented 1929-era Sedalia & Warsaw is based on a Missouri Pacific branch line in western Missouri extending 43 miles from the connection with the Missouri Pacific at Sedalia to the Osage River at Warsaw. See 14 photos of Rene's model railroad.
See 14 photos of Jerry Jungers's Western Arkansas model railroad.
Jerry Jungers' Western Arkansas Railroad is a 1968-era freelance railroad operating primarily in western Arkansas from Texarkana to Gateway. Industry structures and other details are constantly being added. See thirteen photos of this railroad.
 

Gateway Central Small Model Railroad Layouts You Can Build

Cement Industry Model Railroad, the Gateway Central 14 project layout.Here's a sneak preview of our Gateway Central XIV (2007) train layout featuring a cement plant, factory and team track. Subscribe to our RSS feed to automatically get announcements of major website additions (and when the photos of this model railroad go online) delivered to your e-mail.   Gateway Central 13 project HO train layout.Click to see the in-construction appearance of this easy to build small model railroad. The Gateway Central XIII model railroad is a shortened and customized version of the "The Stocking Valley Railway" originally published in Model Railroader magazine.
Riverport industrial model railroading, the Gateway Central 12.The Gateway Central XII (2005) HO model railroad features a small river port with an oil terminal, grain elevator, dock and a lift bridge. Click for dozens of detail photos.   Build an urban switching railroad, the Gateway Central 10.View our photos of the Gateway Central X project railroad. See details of each of the finished structures (Buildings Page 1 and Buildings Page 2) used on this railroad and the "photo tour" of this small HO train layout (4'x6').
 

Model Train Layouts

Article on the Gateway Central 2009 HO scale switching model railroad.Read about our newest project railroad, the Gateway Central 2009 HO scale switching layout. Three articles are now online, Designing the Gateway Central 2009, Buildings on the Gateway Central 2009, and Gateway Central 2009 Home Edition Track Plan.

G-gauge garden railroad at the Missouri Botanical GardenPhotos from the Missouri Botanical Garden's "Gardenland Express" G-gauge garden railroad Winter 2003-2004 flower and train show.

  Scene from the Missouri Historical Society HO Scale model train layout.See online the second edition of the "St. Louis Central" model railroad the Gateway Division designed and built for the Missouri Historical Society as part of their Winter 2002-2003 exhibit at the History Museum on models and miniatures, "Our World in Miniature."

This 4'x8' layout is built on a sheet of 2" extruded foamboard supported by 1"x4" framework. It uses Atlas Code 83 track and structures from a variety of manufacturers. It is designed to have the "look and feel" of 1950s era St. Louis. Dozens of vehicles and hundreds of figures and added details enhance the various scenes on this model railroad.
 

A Model Railroad You Can Build

Gateway Central 9 - a small HO scale model railroad you can buildThree of our recent project model railroads were designed to be only 4'x6' - the minimum size for an HO scale train layout with a continuous run loop of track. We have 31 photos of this small model railroad layout you can build.   Model Railroader Magazine St. Louis Central HO Scale Train LayoutThe original Saint Louis Central 2001 Model Railroader magazine layout was constructed by Gateway Division members at the St. Louis National Train Show. See how the work progressed with 68 step-by-step photos.
 

Model Railroading Events and Activities

Visit us at one of our Monthly Model Railroading Meetings, which are open to the public. Come and meet other model railroaders, talk trains, show your railroad models, participate in a modeling clinic, and have a nice evening sharing the hobby.

Model Railroad Scenery, Operations, Wiring, Techniques

We have lots of articles on model railroading in our expanded Online Model Railroading Library. Are you starting your first plastic structure kit? Check out a "how to" article on plastic structures and two more articles on building specific HO scale plastic model structures. New articles are constantly added here. Our newest articles are Essence of Operations and Vintage Color Signs. The latest electronics updates included recommendations for wiring a railroad for DCC, a table of HO scale DCC decoder installations with photos of 20 DCC installations, and specific information on replacement light board decoders for Atlas and Kato engines.
We have lots of other model railroading topics - click on the categories at left to go to that area of our site or enter a topic on our search page. Check back regularly for exciting new content we are constantly adding to this site. Go to the updates page to see what's new!

Contact Information

The public is invited to visit at any of our general monthly model railroading meetings.  Information on upcoming meetings and events is available on our Division Meetings page. The membership of the NMRA is a diverse group of individuals unified by their love of model railroading. We represent a wide variety of interests and wish to improve and expand the hobby through mutual effort. Our local members are from St. Louis city and county, southern Illinois, and Jefferson and St. Charles counties in Missouri. The Gateway Division has members from all over the United States.

Gateway Division NMRA
PO Box 510305
St. Louis, Missouri 63151-0305
email:  info@gatewaynmra.org

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Next Meeting

Please visit us at our Monthly Model Railroading Meeting. The next meeting is Mon., May 20, 2013 at 7 pm at Trinity Lutheran Church in West County. Click for map and directions.

 

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Latest Issue of Our Newsletter

Gateway Division RPO
Spring 2013, V21, N1
(PDF Format, 1.7MB)
 
RPO Backissue Archive

 
St. Louis Model Railroading

2013 St. Louis Train Show

November 2, 2013
Clinics & Seminars
Layouts on display
Model Contests
Photo Contests
Swap & Vendor Tables
Home Layout Tours
Door prizes
Fun for the whole family
2013 St. Louis Train Show Information

 

Featured Photo Set

Two pages of photos of the Museum model railroad designed and constructed by members of the Gateway Division (more photos).
Click for photos of the Missouri History Museum model railroad layout.

 

What's New

New Website Updates

Read about Greater St. Louis Area Model Railroad Layouts, Santa Fe Super Chief photo by Ken Patterson
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