We are a group of enthusiastic Model Railway lovers, modelling mostly British Railways of many eras and in many scales. We welcome anyone of any age or background with an interest in railways who would like to play more, learn more or contribute more. Contact info is below, and our monthly Social Night is open to all comers.
News for September:
September 14 & 15, We are going to have our Branchline layout “As Yet Un-Named” in the roundhouse at Heritage Park for Railway Days. We are also planning to bring a couple of boards for our new layout to work on.
September 1st: Track ordered.. June 30th, we’ve started building our new exhibition layout. It will be a 24 feet wide and 12 feet long tailchaser layout, with a double main line, passing tracks in the station, a branch line with an industrial shunting area & a 6 track fiddleyard.
We’ve chosen Peco code100 track, and mostly medium radius insulfrog points (switches). The 2 mail lines (red) will be operable by both DC or DCC independently, the branch & industrial/canal area will be DCC only. Point(switch) control will be by using micro processor nodes under strategic parts of the layout driving small servo motors, keeping wiring and costs to a minimum.
July 31st update: all 16 boards have been built, & with a few hiccups all fit together well. We are currently working on budgets for power wiring, point control systems, and track. We hope to order track shortly for the track plan below
Up-coming Events:
Sat. Sept 14, & Sun.15th Railway Days at Heritage Park 10:00am – 5:00 pm
September 24th , Social Night at 7:00pm at ‘Limericks Pub’, 7304 Macleod Trail, upstairs in the back room (Tullamore room).
October 29, Social Night, at 7:00pm at ‘The Dorset Pub & Eatery’, 1637 37st. SW.
lmages below are of the work under way, & will be updated as things progress.
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WE ARE a club of dedicated Railway Modellers interested in mainly British Railways. We are located in Calgary Alberta Canada. We’ve been together in one form or another since the mid 70’s, first as the Calgary Chapter of the BRMNA (British Railway Modelers of North America), then since 1993 as the CBRM, although still affiliated with the BRMNA. In 2021 we incorporated as a a No-Profit Society to formalize our operations. We are the ‘go to’ group in southern Alberta modelling British Prototypes in: N, OO,OO-9, and O scales. We currently have our large layout ‘Much Muddling” in storage. Our new smaller layout, ‘As Yet Un-Named’, being shown regularly at Supertrain in April, & at Heritage Park Railway Days in September while be design and build a dedicated Exhibitoin Layout. We host a regular Social Night on the last Tuesday evening of each month that is open to anyone interested.
Membership
The annual membership dues are $25, due on Dec. 31st. Membership is open to all those interested in participating with or supporting our club.
The application form is on the membership page
Images
All images marked ‘LnL Junction’ are courtesy of and copyright by D. Luckman of LnL Junction
Contact us:
mailto:[email protected]