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Missouri History Museum Model Railroad Layout

Photos of the Missouri History Museum Model Railroad Layout

The Gateway Division designed, constructed and donated this recreation of the "St. Louis Central" model railroad layout for the Missouri Historical Society. This operating train layout was part of an exhibit on models and miniatures at the Missouri History Museum the Winter of 2002-20...
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Missouri Historical Society Model Railroad Layout

Missouri Historical Society Model Railroad Layout

This train layout was part of an exhibit on models and miniatures at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park (Saint Louis) October 5, 2002 to January 21, 2003. This layout is no longer on exhibit at the museum, but you can still explore it through the approximately one hundred phot...
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Model Buildings and Structures on the Missouri History Museum Train Layout

HO Scale Model Buildings and Structures on the Missouri History Museum Train Layout, Part 1

Factories, hotel, freight house, brewery, retail businesses, and bridges on the Missouri History Museum model railroad layout....
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Model Buildings and Structures on the Missouri History Museum Train Layout

HO Scale Model Buildings and Structures on the Missouri History Museum Train Layout, Part 2

Warehouses, restaurants, freight house, grain elevator, retail lofts, concrete and brick streets, and figures on the Missouri History Museum model railroad layout....
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Model Buildings and Structures on the Missouri History Museum Train Layout

HO Scale Model Buildings and Structures on the Missouri History Museum Train Layout, Part 3

Freight depot, interlocking tower, catalog showroom, auto parts store, team track, transformer, speeder shed, crossing gates, trackside shanty, and billboards on the Missouri History Museum model railroad layout....
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Missouri History Museum Model Railroad Layout

Saint Louis Central 2002 Missouri History Museum Exhibit

This model railroad layout is based on the Saint Louis Central 2001 Model Railroader project designed and built by St. Louis area members of the National Model Railroad Association during the July 2001 National Train Show in downtown St. Louis. We’ll call this one "Version 2.002" beca...
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Custom Building Signs With Your Computer

Make Custom Building Signs With Your Computer

We assembled the Walthers Cornerstone "Lakeside Shipping" 933-3084 kit as two separate buildings on the History Museum layout. Only one problem - the roof of the warehouse section had a notch out of it to fit the other building in this kit. Trying to match and patch the roof would tak...
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St. Louis Central 2002 Begins

We’re going to be a part of the History Museum! At the May Division meeting, members approved a budget of $2,000 to build a 4’x8’ layout for a forthcoming exhibit at the History Museum in Forest Park. The exhibit, entitled “Our World in Miniature: Trains, Dollhouses and Other Miniatur...
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