A 501(c)3 charitable corporation organized for the "love of trains"
22 Hudson Falls Rd. South Glens Falls, NY
Logo designed by Ken Wheeler
BIG NEWS!
The Upstate Model Railroaders club has been looking for a place in which to expand their operations. Plans have been forming to build a museum dedicated to the history of railroading in the Glens Falls and surrounding areas. Now the ball seems to be rolling as we have been featured in a Post Star article. You can read the story here
Model Train Group eyeing old Price Chopper for Museum
The Upstate Model Railroaders club has been looking for a place in which to expand their operations. Plans have been forming to build a museum dedicated to the history of railroading in the Glens Falls and surrounding areas. Now the ball seems to be rolling as we have been featured in a Post Star article. You can read the story here
Model Train Group eyeing old Price Chopper for Museum
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News on a recent virtual tour..
On Tuesday morning, 8/25, Mike Romanowski, Forest Bevins and I gave a virtual tour of the N scale layout and an introduction to the club, to Bloomberg Industries, specifically Bloomberg
Law, located near Washington D.C. My Daughter is a journalist there and her editor discovered that I was into model trains via a Twitter feed of my personal layout that my daughter shared
with her colleagues.
Bloomberg Industries has been doing virtual lectures and video tours a couple mornings a week via a sharing platform, for their employees and their families as a diversion and to help keep everyone stay connected as they work from home during this Covid crisis.
My daughter’s editor thought that the model railroad would be of interest to both the kids and adults alike. I thought that it would be much more interesting for them to see our club’s museum quality N scale layout in operation, so we set it up to do at the club.
The 45 minute to an hour presentation was viewed by about a dozen or so employees and children. When we opened it up to questions, everyone was quite engaged and eager to know
more about us and the trains. Even with a few WiFi glitches, we thought it went very well and everyone enjoyed it. Mike, Forest & I enjoyed it too.
Thanks Mike and Forest for helping out with this. It was a great way for the Upstate Model Railroaders to get ourselves out there during this age of social distancing.
Great job!
Ken Wheeler
Club President
All Upstate Model Railroaders, Inc. activities are cancelled until further notice. This includes all open houses, work sessions and meetings. Please visit our web site and Facebook page for continuing updates. We hope that everyone stays healthy and safe.
All community activities sponsored in part by Stewart's Holiday Match Program.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Welcome
Welcome to the Upstate Model Railroaders Club (UMRR). Starting in the early 1990's UMRR has provided a venue for "the love of trains." Since our beginning we have been located in Argyle, Whitehall, Hudson Falls, Fort Edward and several locations in Glens Falls, NY. We were in our most recent location, the basement in the former Aimie's Dinner and Movie facility (B. B. Fowler Building) at 190 Glens Street, for 11 years becoming an asset to indoor entertainment, tourism and commerce in downtown Glens Falls
As of August 2016 the club moved into three 17- by 40-foot spaces in the Chase Sports Complex/Epic Ventures building at 22 Hudson Falls Road, South Glens Falls. Our space is accessed by driving around the left (south) side of the building and continuing to the area behind the building. Enter through door #25 and follow the signs to the three layout rooms.
Within the 1,700 square feet of our new club space at the Chase Sport's Complex we host six operating railroad layouts in different sizes, namely: Standard-, O-, S-, HO-, N- and Z-gauges as well as Lego™ trains. Club members run trains on our layouts using everything from legacy power and controls to the latest digital command control systems. UMRR Club layouts are unique in that very few model railroad clubs in the U.S. have the space, membership and commitment to build and operate more than one or two different scale layouts.
As of August 2016 the club moved into three 17- by 40-foot spaces in the Chase Sports Complex/Epic Ventures building at 22 Hudson Falls Road, South Glens Falls. Our space is accessed by driving around the left (south) side of the building and continuing to the area behind the building. Enter through door #25 and follow the signs to the three layout rooms.
Within the 1,700 square feet of our new club space at the Chase Sport's Complex we host six operating railroad layouts in different sizes, namely: Standard-, O-, S-, HO-, N- and Z-gauges as well as Lego™ trains. Club members run trains on our layouts using everything from legacy power and controls to the latest digital command control systems. UMRR Club layouts are unique in that very few model railroad clubs in the U.S. have the space, membership and commitment to build and operate more than one or two different scale layouts.