Model Railroad Clubs
Credit Valley Free-Mo Club
The Erin Mills Model Railroad Association was formed in May 1980 as a club to encourage and promote model railroading. At present, the club has about one hundred members ranging from early teens to retirees. While our association does not have a permanent layout, we have two active groups based on portable modular layouts, one for HO scale and one for N scale. These layouts are assembled at train shows in order to form large temporary layouts on which our members operate their trains.
Just as important, you will be able to meet with fellow railroad modelers, many of whom have home layouts, and may be working on their own individual projects ranging from small apartment layouts to large room filling railroad empires. Link to website.
Toronto's only dual scale model railway club. The HO scale layout models 1950s transition era southwestern Ontario. The N scale layout is loosely based upon modern-era Appalachia. Link to website.
Formed in 1965, they have been at their current location since 1985.
Specializing in HO and N scale, they are well known in the community especially
through their annual spring train show attracting hundreds of people from the
surrounding area. Link to website.
"Home to the O scale Central Ontario Railway"
The Club was founded by Borden Lilley and Harry Ebert in 1938. Originally located in Ebert's basement, the Club soon moved to new premises at Torontos Union Station. After World War II, the railways needed the Union Station space. In 1946 the Club moved to its present location, a former munitions factory. Construction on the layout in its present configuration began in 1962 as a three-rail layout. By the late '60s the track was converted to a two-rail operation. Some of the structures from the Union Station days are still in use today. Over the years the layout has evolved as track is changed, structures rebuilt, and scenery upgraded. Link to website.
NOMRE club at Summit Park Mall, Niagara Falls, NY, USA. Meetings on 3rd Thursday of every month, Open house on 1st Saturday & 3rd Sunday of every month.
The WMRC was formed as a result of not having an existing model railroad club in Windsor and Essex County for the past twenty years. Furthermore, there is a growing number of new model railroaders who have shown an interest and emphasized the need for the formation of such a club. Finally, there are numerous model railroaders who simply do not have the available space within their own homes to build layouts. As a result, the formation of the WMRC serves as an outlet to these individuals so that they may have a place where they may be able to bring their trains to run.
As part of the Windsor Club, a new N-Scale club is forming. For interested modellers please email Peter Bechard at pbechard@layoutdepot.com.
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