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Experience the Northlandz Model Railroad Exhibit with Rich Velten – Mar. 17, 2014 Gateway NMRA Meeting

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 17, 2014 at Trinity Lutheran Church in West St. Louis County. Rich Velten will be presenting a program on Northlandz, an operating model railroad exhibit located in western New Jersey about halfway bet...
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John Garavaglia's Missouri Pacific Eastern Division Railroad

John Garavaglia’s Missouri Pacific Eastern Division Railroad

John Garavaglia loved the MoPac as a child and has captured it in his O scale 30'x25' layout. This layout models the Missouri Pacific from the downtown St. Louis yard to the small town of Pacific, Missouri and features the city of Kirkwood in 1955....
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Three Southeastern Box Cars

Three Southeastern Box Cars

I recently finished three Southeastern-prototype box cars for railroads represented by the ACL & SAL Historical Society—the Georgia Railroad, the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, and the Western Railway of Alabama. These railroads were occasionally referred to as “the Georgia Roads” a...
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Bob Lenz' Colorado Western & Aspen Junction Model Railroads

Bob Lenz’ Colorado Western & Aspen Junction Model Railroads

Two railroads operate on Bob's beautiful layout, the HO standard gauge Colorado Western and the HOn3 narrow gauge Aspen Junction. Each railroad is based on the prototype Colorado Midland. The standard gauge Colorado Western runs from Leadville through Hellgate past Thomasville, where ...
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Winter 2014 RPO, Vol 21, No 4

The Winter 2014 Issue of The RPO is Now Available Online

The Winter 2014 quarterly members newsletter of the Gateway Division NMRA, The RPO, is now available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format....
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Gene Coffman's Mound City & Western Model Railroad

Gene Coffman’s Mound City & Western Model Railroad

Gene Coffman has spent 10 years creating a layout based on his childhood experiences. His 20x30 foot HO scale Mound City & Western represents the areas around St. Louis, East St. Louis, and Rolla....
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Easy Model Railroad Backdrop Painting – Gateway NMRA Meeting February 17, 2014

The next monthly meeting of the Gateway Division will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, February 17, 2014 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in O’Fallon, Illinois. The clinic will be a step-by-step video, "Easy Backdrop Painting," which covers the painting of sky color, mountains, valleys, an...
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Dave Lyon's Downe & Audt Line Model Railroad

Dave Lyon’s Downe & Audt Line Model Railroad

The HO scale Downe & Audt Line Railroad takes two rooms of Dave Lyon's basement. This detailed railroad uses radio DCC control to operate trains through mountain, town, and city scenes that display Dave's modeling skills and humor....
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