Preserving model and railroad history. Providing educational clinics, demonstrating railroad operations. Our mission is to further to hobby of model railroading, promote rail safety, and provide historical reference materials to the members and general public. We also display and interpret historical railroad artifacts. The society operates both HO & O Scale layouts. The O scale layout is modular
and displayed multiples times throughout the year at the Great Scale Model Train Show held at the Maryland State Fairgrounds. The layout is set in early 1950s, the late steam and early diesel transition era. This means the majority of the trains will be steam and first generation diesel trains, but you will see an occasional modern passenger or freight. O scale is not the same a Lionel or O gauge, the most notable difference is no center (third) rail. If you compare O scale and O gauge car next to each other you will see more detail and more accurate dimensions of the scale cars. The HO scale layout operates modern SD-90 diesels next to a ten wheeler (4-6-0) steam train with 40 foot boxcars. This is primarily to give the visitor a look at how trains have changed through the years. The HO Layout models the fictitious railroad the Chesapeake and Western. We had to move from our long standing home on Saratoga street and are in the process of building a HO layout, in our new temporary home.
