Dave’s YouTube videos support his clinic “Building Billboards for the Baden, Vogt and DeSmet” which he recently presented at an Gateway Division NMRA monthly meeting. In both the clinic and the videos, Dave describes why he thinks making your own billboards is a good idea, how to retr...

This year’s contest featured a very simple set of rules. The first rule required the entrant to start with a box car. Entries were divided into models and dioramas. The seven entries provided a nice variety of what can be accomplished with a box car....

As a special member's event, Gateway NMRA and St. Louis NRHS members are invited to visit, tour and operate HO model trains at K-10’s Model Trains, 19 Schiber Court, Maryville, Illinois, on Saturday, October 29, 2016, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Sign up at the next meeting or contact Ron G...

Make sure to attend these clinics which are part of the 2015 Gateway NMRA St. Louis Train Show on Saturday, November 7, 2015....

A photo in the Wabash Railroad Historical Society calendar inspired construction of a 1955-era piggy-back flat and trailer....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, January 19, 2015 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Jim Ables will give a presentation on Modeling In The Computer Age. The presentation will include information on using the internet for r...

Kitbashing an HO scale model of the Radium Mine that was located on the south side of Belleville, Illinois....

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, October 21, 2013 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars‎ Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. John Carty will present "Kitbashing for Dummies." Ready to run, build-ups, and kits provide modelers with a variety of motive pow...

Welcome to hills and hollers of West Virginia and the 1950s on the B&O and Buffalo Creek & Gauley....

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Phil's goal is to capture the character and surroundings of the ERC&L and BC&G and bring them back alive through his layout. The layout will be a never-ending project and hopefully, a constantly improving one....

Inexpensive model railroad building detailing tips and tricks....