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Title: Southern New England Model RR Club (O 2-rail)
Post by: jbvb on April 05, 2026, 08:09:31 PM
Their page has a brief history and a calendar covering the next few months. There are also some photos from 2025:

  https://www.snemrr.org/index.html

The following photos were taken on my first visit in April 2026, when the B&M RR Historical Society visited in lieu of their normal meetings in Lowell. They'd gotten out a lot of B&M locos and equipment for the visitors.  Their own photos show some of pretty much everything.

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IIRC, the bridge to the right is an Atlas kit.

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Most of the buildings and flats were built by Herm Botzow, who also has a home O 2-rail layout I've never seen.  He has been open for many Tour De Chooches, but I've never found time to visit; between my own layout often being open and the 66 mile air-line distance turning into 101 miles and almost 2 hours because of NH's tourist- and legislature-oriented road network, I'd need most of a day.

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Their signal system uses Atlas logic, more in my Lineside Signaling thread.

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Some of the structures are real showpieces, many are background flats.
Title: Re: Southern New England Model RR Club (O 2-rail)
Post by: jbvb on April 05, 2026, 08:14:33 PM
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This is the yard that visitors have to go down stairs, under and back up to see the rest of the layout.

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One of the B&M trains on display.

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The dispatcher's desk includes access to at least 12 video cameras to give an idea of what's going on where.
Title: Re: Southern New England Model RR Club (O 2-rail)
Post by: deemery on April 05, 2026, 08:32:54 PM
That's quite the dispatcher's rig!

dave