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Trainfest started in 1971 as a one-day show in a Milwaukee Veterans of Foreign Wars hall. [1] Today, Trainfest is a two-day event sponsored by the Wisconsin Southeastern (WISE) division of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) and takes over 200,000 square feet (19,000 m 2) of the Wisconsin Exposition Center during the second weekend of November. [2]
The dates overlap with another big summer event: The 2024 Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival is scheduled for July 25-28. It'll be the Thunderbirds' first appearance at the Milwaukee air show ...
Another thing Model Railroader had was their own model railroad layout, the Milwaukee, Racine and Troy, which was located on the second floor of the Kalmbach Media offices in Waukesha (the original was located on the 3rd floor of the old offices at 1027 N. 7th Street which was in operation from 1975 to 1989 [6]).
Wm. K. Walthers, Inc., was officially founded in Milwaukee in 1932—though it started years earlier when seven-year-old William K. (Bill) Walthers got his first taste of the hobby with a small, wind-up toy train for Christmas. He continued with the hobby and eventually had an attic layout composed primarily of his scratch-built creations.
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The 2025 dates for the Milwaukee Air Show are little less crowded calendar-wise than they were in 2024, when the air show shared Milwaukee's lakefront with the Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival.
Kalmbach became exclusively a publisher when it discontinued its printing operations in 1973, opting to contract production from other printers, that spot (on the 3rd floor) would later be home to the Milwaukee Racine & Troy model railroad, wich would be torn down in 1989 [3] [4]
Summerfest in Milwaukee has set its dates for 2025 — and it'll include Juneteenth programming for the first time in its 57-year history. ... We saw over 100 Summerfest 2024 shows in Milwaukee ...