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Division 6 Model Railroad Clubs

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MODEL RAILROAD CLUBS

In DIVISION 6

Please e-mail updates to Tom Crosthwait, Director, Division 6

Austin & Hill Country Area

Hill Country Outlaws On30 Yahoo Group (HCO)

POC:   Clark Musgrove, e-mail address:  tasajilla1@hughes.net   // Alternate San Antonio Area POC :  David Coates, e-mail address:  coates_d@msn.com.

Modular On30 narrow-gauge Yahoo Internet group centered around greater Austin.  Part of the "Texas Outlaws" On30 confederation.  Uses slightly modified NMRA modular layout standards and DCC.  Group meets to assemble layouts for operation when / where / as space available. A frequent participant in train shows and events throughout Texas.  Contact Clark or David for further information.

Corpus Christi Area

Corpus Christi Model Railroad Club (CCMRC)

POC: Jerry Hunt (361)443-7870, e-mail address: jhunt@mygrande.net

Clubhouse / layout location: 821 Louisiana Street (in the old firehouse). Permanent HO layout. Business Meetings: 1st Tuesday, 7:00 pm. How-to Clinics: 2nd Tuesday when scheduled. “Run What You Brung”: Almost any time. Operating Sessions as scheduled. Layout open to the public every Tuesday 7pm-9pm and almost every Saturday morning 9am-noon. Totally DCC with about 400 feet of mainline. Layout is currently being rebuilt and updated.

Website: www.ccmodelrailroadclub.weebly.com.

 

Gulf Coast Society of Model Railroaders (GCSMR)

POC:  Bill Smith, (361) 991-2541,  e-mail address: billidean@grandecom.net

Layout:  HO modular layout with permanent location.  Location:  Sunrise Mall (2nd Floor, near Burlington Coat Factory), 5858 S. Padre Island Drive, Suite 83A - Corpus Christi, TX 78412 (between Staples and Airline). Meetings Thursdays 7pm.  Operating Sessions: Saturday (12-6pm) & Sunday (1-5), open to the public. Layout built from NMRA standard modules;  total size 15' X 50'.  Operating "G"-gauge loop around the room overhead.

Gulf Western Modular Railroad Society (GWMRRS)

POC (coordinator):  Vince Smith - (361) 385-2245 (h) / 244-0201 (cell) - e-mail address: kestrel@mac.com
          Layout:  HO modular, 40' X 60'.  Meet in members homes every Wednesday;  sometimes meet at Driscoll Children's Hospital for work on children's layout.  Modules depict generic Midwest American scenes. Modules are built to NMRA HO standards, but with extra layout height for scenic realism.  Members' encompass a wide variety of interests, skill levels, and prototype railroads.  The Society has displayed its layout in numerous train shows and other venues in Corpus Christi, San Antonio, and New Braunfels, and the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station.

Edinburg/McAllen Area

Rio Grande Valley Rails (RGVR)

POC:  Frank J. Jacobson - P.O. Box 4228, McAllen, TX 78502 - (956) 686-1040 (work;  OK to call)

Modular club.  Modules in "HO", "N", some in "O".  Modular layouts currently in lobby of Heritage Manor, Harlingen.  Meetings:  most 2nd Saturdays.  Modelers,  railfans,  historians welcome.  Contact Frank for more  information.

 

New Braunfels Area

New Braunfels Historic Railroad & Modelers Society, Inc. (NBHRMS)

 

San Antonio Area

Alamo Model Railway Engineers (AMRE)

San Antonio Garden Railway Society (SAGRES)

San Antonio Model Railroad Association, Inc. (SAMRA)

San Antonio N-Trak Group (SANTRAK)

San Antonio Z-scale Group (SAZ)

Texas Transportation Museum (TTM)


Last updated: December 13, 2006.

This page is maintained by Tom Crosthwait, Director, Division 6

 

 

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