Southern New England Model RR Club (O 2-rail)

[jbvb]

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.



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



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.



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



Some of the structures are real showpieces, many are background flats.

[jbvb]

This is the yard that visitors have to go down stairs, under and back up to see the rest of the layout.



One of the B&M trains on display.



The dispatcher's desk includes access to at least 12 video cameras to give an idea of what's going on where.

[deemery]

That's quite the dispatcher's rig!

dave