Mall Move out and Winter Wonderland

On Monday February 5th a crew of MGRS members packed and loaded our equipment into the trailer for upcoming events. It includes engines, rolling stock, track and electronics.

Shopping for trains at the Mall.....

The tables and mountain built by the Mall are still in place. One of the options for the 2018 Holiday Train display is to move the tables out where the giant chess and checkers were in 2017. This is a larger space and may allow our display to be wider.

Some equipment and props used only at the Mall is being stored in one of the storage areas we used during the 2017 event

Parking on the Sidewalk

Members who helped included John Middleton, David Blue, Terry Norton, Andy Hendrickson, Ben Braithwaite, Scott Gould, Doug Johnson, Peter Richards, Art Shean, and Sam Carr.

There is a nice video of a family visit to the Winter Wonderland. It starts is writing an letter to Santa and goes on to the trains (of course)... Here is the link to the video

Winter Wonderland at the Maine Mall 2017

MGRS Photo Book and Membership Drive

The club has a new photo book. You can see the photos at

MGRS Photo Book

These photos are also on a digital picture frame we will have at our events. It displays a new photo about every five seconds.

The photo book is part of drive to recruit new members. Here is what will be available

• Invitation to join MGRS -picture below, application on back

• DVD of the Holiday Train Display videos from 2010 thru 2017 - copies will be available at the Spring Meeting

• Getting Started with Garden Railways brochure from Kalmbach along with copies of Garden Railway Magazine