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In September 2023, the AMRA NSW Branch announced on Facebook that the 2019 exhibition ran at a loss, and COVID had prevented exhibitions in 2020 - 2022. AMRA NSW stated that it "is not currently in the position to host the Sydney Model Railway Exhibition, not in 2023, not in 2024, and not for the foreseeable future."
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The San Diego Model Railroad Museum is a museum in San Diego, California, that focuses on the heritage of railroading through model railroads. It was founded in 1982. The museum is located on the lower level of Casa de Balboa in Balboa Park. [1] [2] At 27,000 sq. ft., it is the largest model railroad museum in North America.
Considered to be the first 'scenic model railway', Madder Valley and John Ahern's series of books was a major influence on railway modelling through the 1950s. [15] As well as its scenic aspects, this also represented an influential shift from compressed representations of main line stations to a smaller branch line , where the model could more ...
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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.
The museum also features a historic train station (the 1887-vintage Arcadia, California depot of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway), a library, and a collection of railway memorabilia. [3] [4] Currently, entry to the museum is free and open to the public on the second weekend of each month, besides daily in May during the L.A. County ...
Iain Alexander Rice (11 October 1947 – 8 October 2022) was a British model railway enthusiast, writer and illustrator who authored more than 20 books and 400 articles on model railways over five decades. [1] [2] Railway Modeller described Rice as one of the hobby's "most influential and prominent enthusiasts of the last fifty years". [3]