mainegardenrailwaysociety2023

MGRS now has a 10' wide x 14' long single axle Club Trailer. It is silver and has both door on the side and two barn doors at the back. It should look familiar as the  Club bought it from Tiny Lee.

We have accepted a request to return to the Cross Arena for the Strive Rocks event. The date is March 11th from 10 to 6. We are looking for volunteers for the train layout. Please contact Terry or Carl to sign up.

Please renew your membership for  by sending a check for $15 to MGRS, 33 Elden Road, Buxton, ME 04093. (Updated 5/1/2023)

The Railroad Hobby Show sponsored by the Amherst Railway Society was held this past Saturday and Sunday. It fills four of the larger buildings at the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield, Mass. MGRS members attending included Norm Waycott, Art Handman, Jim Jenkins, Terry & Sue Norton, David Blue, Grace Miller, Ernie Bay and Sam Carr. Mike Shipp was busy in his York Village Marketplace booth. Once you got your ticket, the first thing you heard and saw was steam locomotive #11 from the Boothbay Railway Village. It was outside, between the buildings with steam up and the whistle blowing. Two foot steam locomotive #11 Charles Ro had a bunch of G-Scale on display with an engine lineup in front Charles Ro engine lineup The New Hampshire Garden Railway Society had a big modular layout running around the outside of a 68' x 54' space. NHGRS Switch Yard NHGRS Work Train NHGRS Railway Police and Emergency Services NHGRS Military Train Video The Central Connecticut G Scale Club al...

Thanks to Jim Alberty from Apple, here is the video of the 2016 Holiday Train Display 2016 Holiday Train Display Here is what Jim said about it on Youtube Published on Jan 4, 2017 And here it is, my annual Holiday gift to the world .... every year the Maine Garden Railways Society ( https://sites.google.com/a/jacksoncon... ) puts a wonderful G-Scale train set in our local mall .... and give me the privilege of filming it for the purpose of making a video and writing a soundtrack ..... this year was no exception .... I started with the walk down the corridor that opens the video and then built it from there, using Final Cut Pro X and my old friend Logic Pro X .... hope you like it .... these guys do incredible work every year and it's always a blast to see children enjoy it .... happy holidays to you all .... Members Bill and Robin Goodrich also created a video with some of their trains, trolleys, and (as always) really neat handcars. Maine Mall Trains 2016

Jim has the following items for sale. Please contact him at  jmuthig3@gmail.com or call 2072066102 USA 17024 St. Johnsbury Trailer on a Flat Car, NIB $85.00 LGB 45590 Truck Transport and Trucks, NIB, $100 USA Trains R1765 USMC Flat Car with 2 Dodge Power Wagons, NIB, $85.00 

I happened to find this on the Internet while looking for a model train show. Its worth a look on your computer. Miniature Railroad and Village Web site Here it is by the numbers And there is a nice collection of pictures at Miniature Railroad Photos

Thanks to Dennis Farrell we have a story about a train in Belgium which is made out of chocolate Locomotive and Tender Click here for a Chocolate Train web story A train made entirely of chocolate has set a new Guinness World Record as the longest chocolate structure in the world...        The sculpture, on display at the busy Brussels South station, is 112-feet (34.05 meters) long and weighs over 2,755 pounds  (1250 kilos).  Maltese chocolate artist Andrew Farrugia spent over 700 hours constructing the masterpiece. He said he came up with the idea of the train last year after visiting the Belgian Chocolate Festival in Bruge: "I had this idea for a while, and I said what do you think if we do this realization of a long chocolate train, you know, because a train you can make it as long as you like. "Actually it was going to be much smaller than it was, but I...

After running from November 18 through January 1, the 7th Annual Holiday Train Display at the Maine Mall was dismantled and moved out today.  We started after 8am, left the Mall at 11, and finished unloading in Buxton just before noon. Here is the "cast" for the move out, in no particular order..... John Middleton Norman Waycott Paul Corbett Andy Hendrickson Carl Churchill Mac McLaughlin Mike Curry David  Blue Terry Norton Jim Muthig Frank Howard Mary Garland Art Shean Dennis Farrell Jim Jenkins Sam Carr and son Ben Braithwaite Special thanks to Casco Bay Ford for providing the cargo van for the move in and move out. Waiting for the next run......

This past week we had the fun of seeing two Rail Diesel Cars (RDCs), also known at the Buddliner operating at the Holiday Train  Display. The Budd Corporation built almost 400 of the prototype car in four different models. They replaced the railbus built earlier by several other companies. RDC-1  90 passenger coach RDC-2  70 passenger coach with baggage compartment RDC-3   48 passenger coach with baggage compartment and   Railway Post Office RDC-4   Railway Post Office and baggage compartment only RDC-9   94 passenger trailer with engine but no control cab Prototype RDC The G-Scale units are RDC-3s built by Aristocraft.  Jim Jenkins ran his RDC pulling two New York Central coaches. The unit runs smoothly and quietly. It can also produce smoke. Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Line RDC and Circus Train Run By Prospective member Ed Smith came by on Saturday evening and had a chance to run his brand new Boston and Maine RDC...