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Fall 2017 RPO, Vol 25, No 3

The Fall 2017 Issue of The RPO is Now Available Online

The Fall 2017 quarterly members newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA, The RPO, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....
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Modern Traction Power and Light Rail Systems – Gateway NMRA Meeting May 15, 2017

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 15, 2017 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Carl Wessel will present on traction power (e.g., Metrolink), electrically powered rail systems using overhead wires. Some the topics Carl wi...
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History of the East St. Louis & Suburban Traction System – Gateway NMRA Meeting Apr. 20, 2015

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 20, 2015 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. John Carty will present "A Brief History of the East St. Louis & Suburban System" - a look at the Great East Side Electric Railway S...
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Building a Mobile Substation for the Day Lines

Building a Mobile Substation for the Day Lines

A mobile substation car provides power to the overhead traction wire in order to keep trains running while line crews conducted repairs to a substation or other power source. Since I model the East St. Louis & Suburban Railway System in HO scale, such a car provides a unique piece of ...
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Summer 2013 RPO, Vol 21, No 2

The Summer 2013 Issue of The RPO is Now Available Online

The Summer 2013 quarterly members newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA, the RPO, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....
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Jacob Libhart's City Streetcar Model Railroad Diorama

Jacob Libhart’s City Streetcar Model Railroad Diorama

Jacob Libhart found this model railroad diorama (in very poor condition) in an antique store in Cuba, Missouri. The layout had no engines, cars or paperwork and was not running. This 12 year old modeler completely refurbished the diorama, adding motive power, cars, new track - and rew...
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Overview of St. Louis Interurban Railroads

Overview of Interurban Railroads

The background, history and modeling of interurban railroads, with special emphasis on St. Louis prototypes....
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Spring 2009 RPO, Vol 17, No 1

The Spring 2009 Issue of The RPO is Now Available Online

The Spring 2009 quarterly members newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA, the RPO, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....
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San Diego Trolley

San Diego Trolley and The Coaster

For the Microsoft TechEd 2004 conference, I stayed at a new hotel directly across the street from the San Diego Convention Center. Well, also across working railroad and trolley tracks. And the view allowed me to rainfan from my hotel room window. So here's some shots of BNSF, the Coa...
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