The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, December 17, 2018 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, Illinois. Bring it and Brag - Bring your favorite model and tell the group why it’s a favorite. Tell us about the techniques you used to arrive at this masterpi...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 15, 2018 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, Illinois. Illinois Valley Division member Thomas Ose will continue his clinic series on Arduinos and Model Railroading. Arduinos are inexpensive, small computers...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 17, 2018 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Glenn Koproske will present an interactive clinic on the Digitrax LNWI WiFi Interface module for LocoNet. There will be audience partic...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 16, 2018 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. David Lowell will present a clinic on his methods for applying decals. He'll provide a brief instructional presentation followed by a hands-...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 18, 2018 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, Illinois. Pete Smith will take us on a photographic tour of his layout while discussing the design concept and some of the modeling techniques he used. Our monthly ...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 21, 2018 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Dave Roeder MMR will present his techniques of prototype modeling railroad, vehicle, structure, WWII tank, and dune buggy models. This includ...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 16, 2018 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, Illinois. Illinois Valley Division member Thomas Ose will present "Arduino and Model Railroading." Arduinos are inexpensive, small computers that have many differe...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 19, 2018 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Carl Wessel will discuss how he got onto the Kankakee Belt and a bit of it's history, the materials he has to base the layout and operation...

On December 16, 2017 the Gateway Division hosted their first “Model Railroading 101” class open to the public at the Museum of Transportation. Greg Gramlich demonstrated how to build a simple layout using Bachmann EZ-Track on a 42"x60” piece of 2" thick extruded foam board. The hands-...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 16, 2017 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, Illinois. Adding signals to your model railroad layout not only looks nice, but it also helps with realistic operations. When configured properly, signals help y...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 18, 2017 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Gary Hoover will present a clinic on why and how he changed his layout from the Santa Fe in 1951 to the N&W in the mid-50s. Slides will...

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, August 21, 2017 at VFW Post 805 in O’Fallon, Illinois. Gregor Moe will conclude the basics of model railroading series with a clinic on Terraform to create the land part of your scenery. He will demonstrate ...