OCSMR-Ocean County Society of Model Railroaders Club Latest update 7/4/2024

Mark - Nope.  The junk food train is mine.

Some added pictures from our last open house:

Bud and Frank getting prepared for the open house stretching their legs and tongues!

Your President talking things over with the layout master, Bud.

James running the S gauge making sure it all runs well.

Dennis showing the remote to a guest. This was the start of a huge crowd we had on Sunday.

An Update to our accessibility to our club.

WE ARE NOW CHAIR LIFT ACCESSIBLE TO AND FROM THE BASEMENT. It is fully operational as of May 1, 2024.

Bud was working tonight installing one of the 2 wooden bumpers for our city scene trolley. He had assistance from Jeff Pennell, another member in our club.


More pictures to follow.

Looks like Bud is taking charge and Jeff is taking it easy!

Chair lift accessible is a good thing, none of us are getting younger!

The trolley line wired and operating both and forth from the gas station to the car wash.

Some repair room renovation/updating to its decorum. Wood flooring so if you drop a tiny screw on the black concrete floor and can’t find it, you will find it now!

Before with underlayment over the concrete floor.

The finished wood floor with dual colored wood flooring.  

The S Gauge crew was at it again laying track down with switches that were tested and re-tested for reliability. This time, the track is going to be permanent. 2 loops are done with a long siding to be built.

A few pictures from the last Brick Train show that we were set up operating trains on a fastrack layout.

Doug, our S gauge expert with our founding member, CSXJOE. The club began in 1987.

CSXJOE with Tom aka TBall.

Our treasurer, Frank with CSXJOE and yours truly, el Presidente Ted.

Very nice!  Ted, the first photograph is missing.

This past Tuesday, we had a Boy Scout Troop and a Cub Scout Pack visit our club.  All were interested and had a good time.  Hopefully they'll be able use the visit to obtain their model railroad pins.

At least two parents and their kids were interested in trains.  One came with a large scale Aristo-Craft FA.  It had been bought for his son by his grandmother.  The had no track and several tons of questions.  Tried to answer them but there is a lot to learn.  (BTW - my sister got me my first large scale engine - w/o track too - but that's another story).  The other showed pics of their Christmas layout and were interested in expanding.  Also, they were using tubular track and were asking where to buy it.

Here're a few pix.

Brought my theme train.

O-Gauge.

HO-Gauge.

George distributed attendance certificates to each scout with their name imprinted.

Ted handed out HO cabooses to all the scouts.

Thank you for the story and photographs, Bud!  That looks like an enthusiastic group!  Your BSA 2010 train is neat!  I would have liked to have had a model railroading merit badge when I was in Boy Scouts 55 years ago, give or take a couple years. 

Mark - We have two current members who were Eagle Scouts and one who passed away a number of years ago due to an unfortunate accident.  He was in his twenties.  We're looking forward to hosting more of these groups.

Bud, that’s great, except for the one who was in the accident.  As with any troop, we only could earn badges for topics that we had individuals to sponsor.  Thats great you have more events in the works.  I only made it to Life not Eagle.  Our long time scoutmaster retired and we were in disarray twice looking for a new scoutmaster.  Regardless, I learned many life lessons that were more valuable than a badge on a shirt pocket.

2 additional photos from the June 18th visit from the Cub and boy scout troops from  Beachwood, NJ.