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The world's first model railway was made for the son of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 at the Château de Saint-Cloud. [1] However, "There is a strong possibility that Matthew Murray, who built the geared-for-safety rack engines for John Blenkinsop's coal mine near Leeds, England, was actually the first man ever to make a model locomotive." [2]
A railway modelling club in Calais. The Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) at MIT in the 1950s pioneered automatic control of track-switching by using telephone relays. The oldest society is 'The Model Railway Club' [5] (established 1910), near Kings Cross, London, UK. As well as building model railways, it has 5,000 books and periodicals.
Joshua Lionel Cowen (August 25, 1877 – September 8, 1965), born Joshua Lionel Cohen, was an American inventor and cofounder of Lionel Corporation, a manufacturer of model railroads and toy trains who gained prominence in the market before and after World War II.
Mini-Club was developed as Märklin's answer to Arnold Rapido's introduction of N gauge. Today, Märklin manufactures and markets trains and accessories in Gauge 1, H0 scale, and Z scale. In 1994 Märklin acquired the Nuremberg based model train manufacturer Trix producing DC-operated H0 and N scale. Märklin's older trains are considered ...
McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park is a 30-acre (12 ha) railroad park located in Scottsdale, Arizona. It features a 15 in (381 mm) gauge railroad, a Magma Arizona Railroad locomotive, a railroad museum, three model railroad clubs and a 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (190.5 mm) gauge live steam railroad. [2]
The Cuyahoga Valley Terminal Model Railroad Club will have two open houses on Nov. 4 and Dec. 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission for those 16 and older is $5. Admission is free for teens and ...
Main museum building The Denver HO Model Railroad Club is located in the basement of the Colorado Railroad Museum. RGS #20 Steam Engine . The museum building is a replica of an 1880s-style railroad depot.
It's Wednesday morning train time with the Rail Runners Model Railroad Club. But the model train layout is not a one-table playset, the double-tracked layout runs an entire room at the Grand ...