Torrington Area Model Railroaders

04/05/2026

Coming up next Saturday at St. James's Church, 1018 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford.

Join us as we sell some surplus items at the Amherst Railway Society's surplus sale. We have a ton of freight cars and a few structure kits and locomotives we'll be selling at super low prices.

The surplus sale features regular folks selling surplus hobby items and is a great chance to get some deals.

04/03/2026

On Friday we marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of Conrail with Conrail night at the club.

We initially invited people to come and run their Conrail trains, and then decided to welcome everyone to run whatever they liked.

Conrail was famous for patch outs early on, so we did some patching too.

Thanks to everyone who came out. It was a lot of fun.

What railroad should we celebrate next?

In the photos and video: A former LV RS3, patched to Conrail, passes a UP Big Boy, also patched to Conrail.

We did some patching to the Big Boy.

04/01/2026

Reminder:

You are welcome Friday, April 3, at the Torrington Area Model Railroaders, 58 Lewis St., Torrington for a special event: Conrail Night.

Join us as we mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of Conrail.

All are welcome.

Bring your DCC equipped locos and rolling stick to run on our HO layout. (Don’t tell anyone, but non-Conrail is OK too.)

The event is from 3 to 9 p.m.

Join us!

03/28/2026

We have a special event coming up on Friday, April 3 from 3 to 9 p.m.

We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of Conrail on April 1, 1976 with a special Conrail Night.

Join as we operate Conrail power and trains on our HO layout.

All are welcome.

And bring along a DCC powered HO loco or train if you’d like. Wr’ll try to run it.

We are at 58 Lewis St. in Torrington.

01/29/2026

We hope you had the opportunity to visit us at The Big Train Show over the weekend in West Springfield, MA. The Weekend is always memorable, and this year was no exception.

We brought 4 new modules to the show this year. Other modules have new buildings or other new details like signs or lights.

We still have a few of the new club cars available for purchase. More to come on that later.

As a club, we made the decision on Sunday Morning to pack up our layout and leave early. We want to thank all our members who helped set up the layout and those who were there early on Sunday to break down and pack. And extra big thank you to those who loaded, drove and unloaded the truck back at the clubhouse. (No names necessary we know who you are!)

We hope everyone enjoyed the show and got home safely.

01/17/2026

Folks -

We just received our latest custom cars - Housatonic Railroad boxcars made for us by Accurail.

The cars are $30 each and will be available at the West Springfield train show this weekend.

You can find them at the New England Prototype Modelers meet tables in section 16 of the Better Living Center. Our layout will be in Mallary.

The Housatonic has one boxcar that was originally Lehigh Valley. It is car 8001. We did two numbers, 8001 and 8003.

12/06/2025

On November 22nd and 23rd, we held our Fall Open house. We had a many guests and many generous donations for our Food Drive. A good time was had by all. We made new friends and caught up with some old friends. A big Thank you to everyone who attended. If you missed us, we will be in the Mallory Building at the Big E in West Springfield January 24th and 25th 2026.

11/20/2025

Our man Jack was on Channel 8 with Ann Nyberg.

TORRINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — One particular club in Torrington is on the right track, conducting a food drive alongside the Friendly Hands Food Bank. The Torrington Area Model Railroaders is gatherin…

10/20/2025

Our Club Open house is right around the corner.
Saturday and Sunday November 22nd and 23rd from 10am-4pm.
Pick up some non-perishable food for those less fortunate, come down to the club and see what's new.
Bring the whole family.

08/02/2025

Here we are at Kid's on Track! Displaying HO & N scales.
We will be here today and tomorrow!
Come visit!

07/31/2025

Folks - there’s a family-friendly, kid-focused program this Saturday and Sunday at Springfield Union Station called Kids on Track.

Our club will be there lending a hand.

Best of all, it’s free.

Check this link:

On August 2 & 3, the Amherst Railway Society, CTrail, and Springfield Union Station are jointly sponsoring Kids ON TRACK at Union Station in Springfield, Massachusetts.