Torrington Area Model Railroaders

Come see us at our next outing, Kids on Track. It will be August 1st and 2nd, at the Springfield MA train station 🚉. Come view some small layouts. Ride the optional excursion train to Hartford and back. Come talk with us about trains and the hobby. This is an Amherst Railway Society event.

Our club has a great location right on the tracks. Naugatuck (RMNE) has it's hop on hop off excursion passing right by our clubhouse!🤩

Coming up next Saturday at St. James's Church, 1018 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford.

Join us as we sell some surplus items at the Amherst Railway Society's surplus sale. We have a ton of freight cars and a few structure kits and locomotives we'll be selling at super low prices.

The surplus sale features regular folks selling surplus hobby items and is a great chance to get some deals.

On Friday we marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of Conrail with Conrail night at the club.

We initially invited people to come and run their Conrail trains, and then decided to welcome everyone to run whatever they liked.

Conrail was famous for patch outs early on, so we did some patching too.

Thanks to everyone who came out. It was a lot of fun.

What railroad should we celebrate next?

In the photos and video: A former LV RS3, patched to Conrail, passes a UP Big Boy, also patched to Conrail.

We did some patching to the Big Boy.

Reminder:

You are welcome Friday, April 3, at the Torrington Area Model Railroaders, 58 Lewis St., Torrington for a special event: Conrail Night.

Join us as we mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of Conrail.

All are welcome.

Bring your DCC equipped locos and rolling stick to run on our HO layout. (Don’t tell anyone, but non-Conrail is OK too.)

The event is from 3 to 9 p.m.

Join us!