Model Railroad Club In Round-Robin

November 30, 2005

Ponderosa North Model Railroad Club describe themselves as a round-robin club. Why? Because, the club does not have a permanent home – but rather it moves from members house to another members house on a monthly basis. This happens each month with the exception of the summer months of May – August, as it gets a bit hot in Phoenix.

Ponderosa North Model Railroad Club members share knowledge and experience with one another, displaying and critiquing each others model making. Members also view prototype train videos, help each other in building our home layouts – laying track, wiring, building scenery and running the trains in a prototype manner. Members also like to go rail fanning on the two transcontinental main lines as well as the dozen or so short lines in Arizona.

The club has a modular layout that is housed at club members homes. This layout is a working layout that is run at model railroading events like Railfair & the Great American Train Show. Work is normally done at these events to show both a running of trains and a demonstration of how to work on a layout providing visitors with help building their own layout.

The Ponderosa North Model Railroad Club has an excellent website that is well worth inspecting http://www.arizonarails.com