There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” If you haven’t heard yet, Kevin Anderson is officially MMR #752! Congrats Kevin! Last weekend Rick and Kevin helped with doing evaluations at Lowell’s house. Before that Bob helped prepare Lowell for our arrival so we […]

Kevin Anderson is the newest MMR in our Division. He is also the last one awarded the honor in 2023. He is MMR #752. I believe I personally signed off on every certificate and award. He worked hard to achieve this accomplishment. When he joined our division he had been […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” Among other things, I’ve been working on a new Free-mo module. I know, I still have to “finish” my other ones but I like having lots of projects going on at once. Before getting the track […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” As I anticipated, we rode a number of trains while on our trip. In fact, on one of the trains it showed we were traveling at 299Km/h which I calculate to be 186 mph! Now that’s […]

We want to remind everyone that this weekend is our annual train show that we host for the public. It is also a chance for some of the local clubs to display their portable layouts. I know the OT&W have been making progress on their club HO layout that is […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” This month’s selfie is a 2-in-1. I took one when we started running trains at the Fall Festival in Saratoga Springs at Shay Park, then another on 25 one of the last runs of the night. […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” This month’s selfie finds me in the Machine Shop in Evanston running trains! We had a large HO Free-mo layout with a couple groups from out of state as well as a good sized N scale […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” The hot days of summer are winding down and there is a lot of model railroading to look forward to. Next week is the NMRA National Convention in Texas, the week after that is the National […]

There’s so much more to this hobby than just “building trains in your basement!” If you have never been to the Colorado Model Railroad Museum you should put it on your bucket list! I had visited once before and when given the opportunity to go back and be certified as […]