I am looking for other fellow modelers in the area. I would like to start a new Railroad club in the area and am wondering who is interested, since the Gering model railroad closed a few years ago. Also looking for other private layouts in area too. I like looking at all layouts from Z on up. I am an HO Scale modeler if any one wants to know.
You are joking aren't you jdmc74? I know where Bayard, Nebraska is at but a good many forum members here, particularly those from east of the Delaware River, don't even know where Chicago is least of all Nebraska.
The rural west is not an area with notoriety for model railroading. They are around but are few and far between. My boss up in Montana in 1958 had a Lionel set-up in the basement of the family dwelling at headquarters but the only time he would ever have had any time to play with/run it would have been in the winter when the drifts were up to the eaves of the windows; the only way I know this is because when we would lay in supplies from either Forsyth or Miles City they had to be unloaded into a storeroom in the basement. A girl I worked with a number of years ago was from Harrisburg; she had an uncle lived up at Torrington who also had a Lionel set-up--she didn't know it was a Lionel set-up, she only knew it had three tracks/rails. It was not until my Grandmother's funeral in Dec 1990 that I found out there was an N-Scale modeler residing in Roberts, Idaho, my hometown. The famous Teton Short Line does call Pocatello, Idaho home and there is/was a club in town but model railroading is rare in Eastern Idaho.
What you need to do is find someone who maintains a community bulletin board and tack up a notice; somebody may come out of the woodwork!
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
There is a modeler in Sutherland, NE, a little distance from you but not too bad. He models the CB&Q and I'm pretty sure he has a home layout, I could see if he would let you contact him.
You may consider getting in touch with the NMRA division for your area, they would keep a listing of layouts of their members.
Ricky
I am in Omaha, but you are a bit of a drive for me. There is a train club out in Gretna NE, but still its a long drive for you. Though Nebraska railroaders do exsist and we do model more than UP and BNSF. Of course CB&Q was big out here to during the correct era. Lots of good train shows in Omaha, NE and Council Bluffs, IA.