Garden State Central Model Railroad Club
Asbury Park, NJ	Established 1963
A New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation	100% NMRA

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Last Updated: 05/04/2008 5 Club members run the New York and Long Branch 05/03/2008 George Speidel, Dave Albertson, Jules Heiliczer, Bob Judge and Jim Judge pose next to Bradley Beach Yard on Dave Albertson's New York and Long Branch layout. They ran 2 operating sessions for visitors from the NMRA division meet. Dave's well detailed layout is prototypical with many buildings being scratchbuilt. A great time was had by all! Thursday Railfanning Trip to Port Reading 02/07/2008 Four club members revisit The Port Reading McMyler Dumper. See the Pictures Monday Railfanning Trip to South Jersey 01/14/2008 Five club members visit The Southern Railroad of New Jersey and the Camden Waterfront. See the Pictures Turkey Trot 2007 The club's annual Saturday after Thanksgiving trip to Pa. was one of the club's largest in years. All 14 of us Jim Judge's video of how our group shot was taken. Rob Davis, Bob Judge, Jim Judge, Dave Albertson and Rich Zmjewski enjoy the Shamokin club. A scratchbuilt minehead complex. One example of the fine modeling we saw on the trip. The Shamokin club's control tower. The Jeddo breaker at the Hazleton club. 2007 Club Show a Big Success! The 2007 Club open house is now history. We saw many new faces along with the regulars from past years. The weather wasn't the greatest but the people didn't seem to mind. A peek in at the slide show. Bob Judge running Lehighton. The coal dumper in Jersey City was a big attraction especially with the kids. A view from Bethlehem. New Video Added We've just added a new video of the McMyler dumper in action to our YouTube videos. Profile shot of the CNJ's McMyler dumper on Pier 18 in Jersey City, NJ. Emptying live coal from a hopper. See more of the dumper in action. Or see pictures of the Dumper model being built in 1998. Operating sessions in progress at the club Mike Curry setting up a Friday night operating session. Bob Judge switching Keyser Valley Yard. Dave Albertson enjoying running Scranton's Taylor Yard. Magnets used for routing during operations For the last month we have been running operating sessions on most Tuesday and Friday nights. This is first time the club schedule has been run using DCC. It really adds to the flavor of the session. You must really be aware of where you are and where other trains are too. Running into another train is always a possibility and congestion around yard areas means everyone must pay attention. On the plus side, the realism is enhanced and things like helper engines and realistic switching make the session fun. Most of the engines (but not all) have sound and this adds to the enjoyment. To hear a busy yard with switch engines moving cuts of cars while passenger trains head for the station and a mixed freight pulls into the yard, with horns signaling and bells ringing can be about as close as you can get to real railroading without a railfanning trip. See more pictures of operations on the Garden State Central.   That's all for now. GSC_WEBMSTR And Show Dates . . Club History . . Handbook . . Improvements Pictures . . Videos . . Trips . . Scale Calc . . Links

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