The Yellowhead Rail Club started as a small traveling layout intended for shows. Club members each built portions of the layout that were brought together for display. The club found its first permanent home at the Edmonton Co-op mall in 1988. This allowed the group to grow and eventually form several branches to the core group, which became known as the Edmonton Society of Model Railroad Engineers. Originally called Club Rail, The Yellowhead Rail Club changed its name to Yellowhead Rail in 1995 and shared space with the other members of the society at Londonderry Mall until 2007 but was forced to leave at that time because there was not enough space for all three layouts. The then Yellowhead Rail eventually found space in Capilano Mall in Edmonton. Due to the distance between Yellowhead and the other layouts of the ESMRE, Yellowhead Rail incorporated itself as a non profit group and donned the name Yellowhead Rail Club, becoming a new, independent model railroad club. Since then, The Yellowhead Rail Club has found homes in the former Fort Mall in Fort Saskatchewan and briefly shared tenancy with the ESMRE again in the Sherwood Park Mall. Not only do we still have a growing portable display that is taken to shows, but we also now have a real, permanent home in the basement of the historic Fort Saskatchewan Station where our new, permanent display occupies 350 square feet of space. The new layout is a bi-level layout, meaning it has two distinct operating levels connected by a helix. The layout represents the Yellowhead region of Alberta, spanning from points east in our province to west of our home city of Fort Saskatchewan and features scenes from the Fort Saskatchewan area including our own station home as it was in the 1950s and 60s. "Like" our page for updates and discussion about our great hobby!
