After months of hard work, usually a few hours one day a week, the first run of the Tuscola Beltway took place on Wednesday, November 14, 2018. IC 6135 was the motive power, testing the as yet unspiked trackage. Thomas had to crawl underneath and do some last minute troubleshooting, but then it was showtime.…
Lincoln Square Model Train Show Announces Change in Organizing Group, Fun to Stay on Track
Annual Spring Lincoln Square Model Train Show Announces Change in Organizing Group Fun to Stay on Track The Midwest Central Railroad Club and the Illinois Terminal Division of the National Model Railroad Association are happy to announce an agreement to transition management of the annual free Lincoln Square Train Show from the former to…
Having Fun with the Illinois Valley Division Layout at Monticello RR Days
It was a very busy September, but the Illinois Valley Division brought its modular layout to Illinois Terminal Division territory for Monticello Railroad Days on September 15 and 16. Members from both divisions, led by Minton Dings, MMR, set the layout up early Saturday morning so it would be ready for the crowds. Our goal…
Thomas Operates on the Monticello Railway Museum
When model railroaders get together to operate, they usually speak in terms of what the gauge and scale of the layout they’ll be working on happens to be. In this case. Thomas (NOT the famous locomotive, but one of our newest members) decided he wanted to operate some large scale equipment, REALLY large scale, …
Promoting the “Sharing Economy” of Model Railroading
The “sharing economy” might be something you haven’t heard of before. You’ve nonetheless likely experienced something like “…an economic model often defined as a peer-to-peer (P2P) based activity of acquiring, providing or sharing access to goods and services that are facilitated by a community based on-line platform.” (Google definition) Except for the…
End of Year Review
With our annual Business Meeting on May 12 nearly here, I thought I would review this past year of the division. The operating sessions were well attended with three layouts in the rotation providing a good variation of equipment and operating methods. Hopefully our other members take advantage of our standing offer to provide layout…
Lincoln Square Train Show
We manned our annual table at the Spring Train Show in Urbana. Lots of folks stopped by and plenty of good conversation. Check out our table.
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