New Jersey modelers post here.

[myowngod]

Hi, Ron. I'm not very far from you, and I was in your store recently trying to find that CRC 2-26 spray (you didn't have it ). I hope your club has floatation devices mounted under the layout (I worked in Franklin when Floyd hit). Is that the club that was in a church?

Sorry about the CRC spray, we usually have that in stock.

We're lucky the club is in a dry part of Bound Brook.  They were just hit with floods again, about 2 months ago.  I guess the name of the town says it all... Bound Brook.  After many years of bounding the brook it's fighting back ever once in awhile.

Thanks for checking out the layout Dad and I are building.  I wish I could get down there more often.

 

[myowngod]

Jersey City here.

  Does the Bound Brook club have a website? Maybe I can stop in one night on my way back from Dunellen.

Unfortunately we don't have a website yet.  We're located at the Bound Brook Presbyterian Church, The large stone church on the corner of Rt.28 and Mountain Ave.  Copy this address into Google maps to get you there  "RT-28 & Mountain Ave, Bound Brook, Somerset, New Jersey 08805, United States".  It's actually in the basement of the cemetary build across the street now... the neighbors don't complain a bit .  About a year ago we moved out of the church because of renovation, but it gave us a great opportunity to build a much better quality layout that is much bigger and a nice size crew room.

Stop on by on friday nights from 7-9pm.  Go in the front door of the cemetary building and go down the stairs, you'll here the comotion.  I won't be there for the next couple weeks because I'm finishing up my classes on friday, but the guys will probably say "Hi" and shove a screwdriver in your hand. 

[myowngod]

where are you and your dad building this layout?  You said south Jersey..... where in SJ?   Looks good so far!!!

 

  He lives in Mayslanding NJ, near the Atlantic City Race Track, RT.40.

[SteamFreak]

Hi, Ron. I'm not very far from you, and I was in your store recently trying to find that CRC 2-26 spray (you didn't have it ). I don't currently have a layout, so I keep myself busy tinkering with the equipment I do have, and exploring the abandoned ROW of the old iron mine railroads of northern NJ, in which I've developed an interest over the past few years. Fascinating history.

I hope your club has floatation devices mounted under the layout (I worked in Franklin when Floyd hit). Is that the club that was in a church?

The layout you're building with your dad looks great - love the backdrops.

[steemtrayn]

Jersey City here.

  Does the Bound Brook club have a website? Maybe I can stop in one night on my way back from Dunellen.

[johnnyx]

where are you and your dad building this layout?  You said south Jersey..... where in SJ?   Looks good so far!!!

 

[BigBlueConrail]

Although I dont live there I am from New Jersey and my layout is heavily influenced by it. I model CSX in the northeast(no specific area) and have NJ transit and Acela trains on my layout.

[myowngod]

Well, since everyone else is doing it...

I would like to find some fellow modelers in my home state.  I'm 35yrs old and been into model railroading for over 30 of those years.  I am currently building a 13'x16' HO layout with my Dad down in South Jersey (for some reason we are unofficially 2 states, North and South Jersey ) and I'm a member of a Model railroad club in North Jersey where I live, Somerset County.  Working at a hardware store in Warren, I meet alot of modelers coming in for parts for their layouts or engines.  I've had N, HO, O, Lionel, Live Steam Modelers stop in my store in the past.  In fact there is a very nice live steam club right in Warren hidden in the woods, full of extremely skilled and nice craftmans.  They always joke around with me, saying they use my HO boxcars for fuel in their engines... HA Ha ha guys .  I Unfortunately don't have enough room for a layout in my Condo... Hmm, scratch that.  I have managed to get a 18" x 72" switching layout in here and a 4'x4' complete loop, with a passing siding, engine service facility(small, very small), a coaling station, and even a small interchange (enough room for one engine. This is a videos of my son and I running trains on the 4x4  http://youtube.com/watch?v=JJrCNyMaM8U .  If you click on "More from this user", to the right of the video, you can see all my videos of the layout my Dad and I are building.

So I know you're out there... post here and let other know.  The club I  belong to is starting a new layout, in a new space and new members would be great.  As of now we only have the benchwork finished.  It's in Bound Brook, NJ.