Special Announcement - Museum of Science Omni Theater IMAX Film Presentation
Journey back to the age of steam, when colossal feats of engineering and epic risk-taking united a vast, rugged continent.
Award-winning filmmaker and train enthusiast Stephen Low brings you aboard a steam locomotive to retrace the original route of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Ride alongside deep river canyons and over high mountain passes - through some of the most beautiful and rugged landscapes on Earth - and discover the stories behind a railway that shaped a nation.
The Bay State Model Railroad Museum was originally established in 1968 in Roslindale, MA
as an O and HO Scale oriented model railroad club including both trolley and narrow gauge on the
HO, and railroad and trolley on the O scale. In late 1977 we were evicted from that space.
As an organization, we elected to try to continue our existence and bought a rather run
down building also in the Roslindale section of Boston. It took better than a year of
back-breaking work, largely completed by members, to rehabilitate our building to support
our club. We also had to recruit, manage, and evict commercial tenants, pay taxes,
insurance, maintenance, etc. All were activities well beyond the expectations of members
who had originally joined the club to build railroads and to run their trains. That
transition is documented in an article appearing in the April 1982 Model Railroader
Magazine entitled "Moving the Mountains".
Building for the Future
Twenty years later (January 2002) a second article appeared in Model Railroader
Magazine entitled "Building for the Future". This was focused to illustrate our twenty
year experiences of owning a building, and to assist readers to determine if such a venture
is a viable option for a model railroad club. In this building we also included N scale in the
desire to expand our offerings to modelers who are into N scale. An article focusing on the N scale
layout was published in the June 2009 issue of Model Railroader Magazine.
Big and Getting Bigger
In July 2005 Model Railroader Magazine published another article, this time
exclusively about the HO scale, entitled, "Big and Getting Bigger", discussing why an
eastern model railroad club would build a western-oriented railroad, and also showing the
plans for the developing eastern section of the railroad. In that article, a few of the
pictures included glimpses of the HOn3 which precipitated a "Trackside Photo" in August
2008 Model Railroader Magazine of a K-27 leading a freight train hugging the Highline
reminiscent of the prototype at Rockwood Colorado.
Great Model Railroads
We are very honored that this August 2008 picture is now being used on the Model Railroader
Magazine subscriber website. We are further honored to report that the HOn3 railroad has appeared in
Great Model Railroads 2010, a publication of Kalmbach Publishing. The Great Model Railroads 2013
calendar now features a photo of the HOn3 for the month of May.
Model Railroading: Fun, Family Oriented & Educational!
