11-07-2010, 10:27 PM
Hi Tetters,
My sons & I have visited the Scaroborough Model Railroaders' layouts several times during their open houses and really like them. We live fairly close to their club building.
I also frequent an LHS where I know at least one member works! I think the SMR layouts are excellent, both their N and HO scales. They also have a couple portable layouts which I've seen at model railway shows.
There is another HO club located up in Markham, near my work (also near George's Trains), which is called Railview Model Railroad club (or something similar). It's also excellent but IIRC it's even more expensive.
I already belong to a club, an association of British model railway enthusiasts called The Platelayers (<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.theplatelayers.org">www.theplatelayers.org</a><!-- w -->). We don't own our own layout, etc., but hold meetings at various members' homes. There is talk, though, of building a group layout. Unfortunately, I don't really have the time or money at the moment to join any other railway clubs, and I'm not very active with The Platelayers (other than occasionally contributing to their newsletter).
I would sooner take part in assisting with a full-scale heritage railway, which I hope to do at some point in the future, even if it has to wait to my retirement years! I think it would be more fun to assist with the York-Durham Heritage Railway north of Toronto, the TRHA at the John Street Roundhouse or the Halton County Radial Railway near Guelph, etc. Have you ever considered that as an option as well?
In any case, I wish you well at the SMR and maybe my sons & I will run into you there in the near future -- we hope to visit one of their November or December open houses.
Cheers, Rob
My sons & I have visited the Scaroborough Model Railroaders' layouts several times during their open houses and really like them. We live fairly close to their club building.
I also frequent an LHS where I know at least one member works! I think the SMR layouts are excellent, both their N and HO scales. They also have a couple portable layouts which I've seen at model railway shows.
There is another HO club located up in Markham, near my work (also near George's Trains), which is called Railview Model Railroad club (or something similar). It's also excellent but IIRC it's even more expensive.
I already belong to a club, an association of British model railway enthusiasts called The Platelayers (<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.theplatelayers.org">www.theplatelayers.org</a><!-- w -->). We don't own our own layout, etc., but hold meetings at various members' homes. There is talk, though, of building a group layout. Unfortunately, I don't really have the time or money at the moment to join any other railway clubs, and I'm not very active with The Platelayers (other than occasionally contributing to their newsletter).
I would sooner take part in assisting with a full-scale heritage railway, which I hope to do at some point in the future, even if it has to wait to my retirement years! I think it would be more fun to assist with the York-Durham Heritage Railway north of Toronto, the TRHA at the John Street Roundhouse or the Halton County Radial Railway near Guelph, etc. Have you ever considered that as an option as well?
In any case, I wish you well at the SMR and maybe my sons & I will run into you there in the near future -- we hope to visit one of their November or December open houses.
Cheers, Rob
Rob
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