Garden State Central Model Railroad Club

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: 09/21/2008

"40 Best" Slide Night A Big Success

Friday night's 40 best slide night had a great turnout. The festivities featured slides, digital images and video. The subjects were varied and held the crowd's interested until after midnight. See the Pictures

The creator and director. Jim Judge setting things up. The assistant director Mike Curry.

The Circus Comes to Easton

Bob Judge's circus truck comes out from under the Lehigh Valley Passenger Station in Easton on the Garden State Central.

A Visit to George Speidel's Garden Railroad

The Thursday Morning Modeling Group took a roadtrip to visit George's extensive backyard 'G' gauge railroad. See the Pictures

Trains running on George's outdoor 'G' guage railroad. George greeted us in his backyard.

Club BBQ July 19, 2008

Our club held its 3rd Randomly Annual BBQ on Saturday July 19th
It was our biggest yet with over 35 people attending! See the Pictures

A group shot of everyone who attended including club members, family and friends. The pool was a busy place all day as temps were in the 90s.

Garden Railroad Tour June 7, 2008

Club members and their friends and family toured garden layouts in south Jersey and Maryland.
See the Pictures

This is Charlie and Jane Kratz's beautiful Cranberry Creek and Pinelands Railroad Another great layout is Gene Ewan's well established garden layout.

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!

New Video Added
We've just added a new video of the McMyler dumper in action to our YouTube videos.

Dumper Video Dumper Video2

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.
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