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List Of Model Railroad Clubs
This is a list of model railways. The world's first model railway was made for the son of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 at the Château de Saint-Cloud. However, "There is a strong possibility that Matthew Murray, who built the geared-for-safety rack engines for John Blenkinsop's coal mine near Leeds, England, was actually the first man ever to make a model locomotive." List * Carolwood Pacific Railroad - USA * Choo Choo Barn - USA * Gorre & Daphetid (HO) - USA * The Great Train Story (HO) - USA * Miniatur Wunderland — the world's largest model railway and airport (HO) - Hamburg, Germany * Miniature Railroad & Village - USA * Modelbane Europa (HO) - Hadsten, Denmark * National Railway Museum - a railway museum including a model railway (O) - York, United Kingdom. * Northlandz (HO) - USA * Pendon Museum (EM '4mm') - Long Wittenham near Oxford, United Kingdom * Roadside America (O) - USA * Sonoma TrainTown Railroad 1:4 scale - USA * Virginian and Ohio * Grand Maket Rossiya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginian And Ohio
The Virginian and Ohio is both the name of a fictional railroad company created by W. Allen McClelland (1934-2022) and the HO scale model railroad he built near Dayton, Ohio featuring this railroad. The V&O is famous in the model railroading world for setting a new standard for freelanced (fictional) model railroads designed to operate in a prototypical manner and was a major influence upon many model railroaders of the time. He used the words "beyond the basement" and "transportation system" to reinforce the idea of moving freight from shippers and industries beyond the confines of the limited model railroad geography and layout you had in your basement. This required the notion of interchange with other (model) railroads as well. The V&O had a shortline railroad on the layout, the KC&B (Kellys Creek & Bradley, named after his children), to provide a source of interchange traffic. Model railroad Construction on the V&O was started in November, 1961. The era was set in 1957. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix ( ; nv, Hoozdo; es, Fénix or , yuf-x-wal, Banyà:nyuwá) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020. It is the fifth-most populous city in the United States, and the only U.S. state capital with a population of more than one million residents. Phoenix is the anchor of the Phoenix metropolitan area, also known as the Valley of the Sun, which in turn is part of the Salt River Valley. The metropolitan area is the 11th largest by population in the United States, with approximately 4.85 million people . Phoenix, the seat of Maricopa County, has the largest area of all cities in Arizona, with an area of , and is also the 11th largest city by area in the United States. It is the largest metropolitan area, both by population and size, of the Arizona Sun Corridor megaregion. Phoenix was settled in 1867 as an agricultural community near the confluence of the Salt and Gila Rivers and was incorporated as a city i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adobe Mountain Desert Park
The Adobe Mountain Desert Park a.k.a. "The Railroad Park" is a park complex that houses the Sahuaro Central Railroad Heritage preservation Society, Sahuaro Central Railroad Museum, Arizona Model Railroading Society, and the Maricopa Live Steamers. The approximately 160-acre Adobe Mountain Desert Railroad Park is located south of Pinnacle Peak Road on 43rd Avenue in the City of Glendale, Arizona. In addition, it has several World War II-era Internment Camp Houses, originally intended as temporary housing at the Leupp Isolation Center. This was an Indian boarding school on the Navajo Nation, which was converted to house Japanese-American internees considered to be troublemakers at other internment camps, after these and other Japanese-American citizens had been forcibly removed from the West Coast. History In 1989, the Sahuaro Central Railroad Heritage Preservation Society leased an 80-acre parcel of land from the Maricopa Parks and Recreation Department. It created the Adobe Mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Model Railroad Club Of Toronto
The Model Railroad Club of Toronto (MRCT) is an O scale model railroad club founded in 1938 by Harry Ebert and Borden Lilley. History Originally located in founder Ebert's basement, the MRCT soon moved to new premises at Toronto's Union Station. After World War II, the railways annexed the space the Club occupied and in January 1946, the Club moved to premises in the basement of 171 East Liberty Street in what is now part of Toronto's Liberty Village neighbourhood. Since the mid-1960s the Club has built and operated its layout as the Central Ontario Railway. In the spring of 2013, the club's Liberty Village home was overtaken by gentrification of the once industrial neighborhood, and the club has relocated to 11 Curity Avenue, Toronto.. Annual Public Show days The Club hosts Annual Shows (open to the public) on the first three Saturdays and Sundays of February and on the Family Day Family Day is a public holiday in the countries of Angola, Israel, South Africa, Uruguay, Vanua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Live Steam Locomotive Society
The Sydney Live Steam Locomotive Society was formed in 1948 and built a miniature railway along a drainage channel behind houses on Anthony Road, West Ryde, Sydney, Australia. The site has been transformed by the addition of fill from excavation work during widening of the local railway line and the society has grown and now operates a miniature railway on the site with a 400m long elevated track of 2 inch, 3 inch and 5 inch gauge, and two 300m long ground level 5 inch railways. The Society operates miniature steam locomotives which represent prototype engines of the New South Wales Government Railways and other states. One can also see a variety of other prototype locomotives. The locomotives work hard hauling 6 car trains with up to 30 persons. A 10 lever mechanical ex New South Wales Government Railways ground frame operates elevated swing stub points and lower quadrant signals on the elevated railway and a 48 miniature (Westinghouse style) lever frame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotthard Railway Line
The Gotthard railway (german: Gotthardbahn; it, Ferrovia del Gottardo) is the Swiss trans-alpine railway line from northern Switzerland to the canton of Ticino. The line forms a major part of an important international railway link between northern and southern Europe, especially on the Rotterdam-Basel-Genoa corridor. The Gotthard Railway Company (german: Gotthardbahn-Gesellschaft) was the former private railway company which financed the construction of, and originally operated, that line. The railway comprises an international main line through Switzerland from Basel (French Bâle) or Zürich to Immensee to Chiasso, together with branches, from Immensee to Lucerne and Rotkreuz, from Arth-Goldau to Zug, and from Bellinzona to Chiasso, via Locarno and Luino. The main line, second highest standard railway in Switzerland, penetrates the Alps by means of the Gotthard Tunnel at above sea level. The line then descends as far as Bellinzona, at above sea level, before climbing ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Museum Of Transport
The Swiss Museum of Transport or Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (literally "Transportation House of Switzerland") in Lucerne opened in July 1959 and exhibits all forms of transport including trains, automobiles, ships and aircraft as well as communication technology. It is Switzerland's most popular museum. The museum also maintains a large collection of work by Hans Erni, a local painter and sculptor. There are several other attractions in the museum besides the collection, including a planetarium, a large-format cinema and a 1:20,000 scale aerial photograph of Switzerland. History The museum traces its history to 1897, when the first attempts at creating a museum of railway equipment were made. Following a national exhibition in 1914, the Swiss Railway Museum was founded by Swiss Federal Railways in 1918 in Zurich. The concept eventually grew to encompass all transportation and, in 1942, the Swiss Museum of Transport association was established. Swiss Federal Railways was joined b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melide, Switzerland
Melide is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The village lies very close to the mountain Monte San Salvatore and is directly on the Lake of Lugano. The Melide causeway to the east was built to make it possible to cross to Bissone and to allow a north-south highway to be built. Melide is known worldwide for the famous Swissminiatur, a museum that shows famous buildings in Switzerland presented in miniature form. History Melide is first mentioned in 1034 as ''Melede''. It was originally ruled by Como. After ownership transferred to Milan in the first half of the 15th Century, Melide was required to furnish five soldiers for the Duke of Milan. In 1482, a toll and customs station is first mentioned in Melide. Until 1427 it was part of the parish of Lugano, followed by the parish of Carona. It became an independent parish in 1525. As the excavations of 1991-92 showed, the parish church of SS Quirico e Giulitta developed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granges Paccot
Granges-Paccot (; frp, Granges-Pacot is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. History Granges-Paccot is first mentioned in 1317 as ''Grangiarum ante la mota dicti castri''. The municipality was formerly known by its German name ''Zur Schüren'', however, that name is no longer used. Geography Granges-Paccot has an area, , of . Of this area, or 45.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 15.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 31.0% is settled (buildings or roads), or 7.8% is either rivers or lakes.Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics 2009 data . Retrieved 25 March 2010 Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 3.8% of the total area while housing and buildings m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhine Falls
The Rhine Falls (german: Rheinfall , a singular noun) is a waterfall located in Switzerland and the List of waterfalls by flow rate, most powerful waterfall in Europe. The falls are located on the High Rhine on the border between the cantons of Canton of Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen (SH) and Canton of Zürich, Zürich (ZH), between the municipalities of Neuhausen am Rheinfall (SH) and Laufen-Uhwiesen/Dachsen (ZH), next to the town of Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland. They are wide and high. In the winter months, the average water flow is , while in the summer, the average water flow is . The highest flow ever measured was more than 1250m3/s in 1999, previous to that the record was in 1965; and the lowest, in 1921. The falls cannot be climbed by fish, except by eels that are able to worm their way up over the rocks. Geology The Rhine Falls were formed in the Last glacial period, last ice age, approximately 14,000 to 17,000 years ago, by erosion-resistant rocks narrowing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EnterTRAINment Junction
EnterTRAINment Junction is an indoor model railroad display located in West Chester Township, Ohio. This 25,000 square foot display consists of over 90 G-scale trains encompassing the early era of American railroading, the middle era, and the modern era. The facility also includes the American Railroading Museum, an expo center, and a fun house. The display takes its name from an O gauge layout that existed in the Mall of America from 1992 to 2000. History EnterTRAINment Junction was a result of the vision of its owner, Don Oeters. Oeters, a successful businessman and model railroad enthusiast, wanted to create the world's largest model train display in an amusement park-like setting. He commissioned Bruce Robinson, whose resume' includes the '' Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' Museums, to create the concept drawings for this massive project. Major construction began in early 2007 with the first track being installed in the Spring of the same year. EnterTRAINment Junction opened t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
