Showing posts with label Union Station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Union Station. Show all posts
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Photos of the original Gateway Western in the 70's and 80's
The first Gateway Western was in its own room on the main floor of Winnipeg's Union Station, long before Via Rail took the building over. It was a landmark for decades until the club was forced to demolish it to make way for a new bathroom.
Since then, it has been revived first as a modular group, then as a permanent display at Gooch's Hobbies, and no finally back to its original place (albeit one floor above) back at the station in the Winnipeg Railway Museum!
The image above was taken in the 70's. Bob Whitehouse is seen on the left, bending over the layout as Lindsey Fuller looks on.
The image below was taken in the 80's. Jim Jenkins is seen in the back, while Dave Kyliuk switches out one of the industry tracks on the layout.
Monday, 3 February 2014
The Gateway Westen meets this Tuesday night
Hungry to do some model railroading?
Are you like this guy, who's chomping at the bit (in this case, the compressor hose) to do some real model railroading? Feeling housebound from the polar vortex? Is cabin fever setting in? Can you even remember the last time went outside except to shovel the snow?
Then come on down to the Gateway Western this Tuesday, February 4, at 7:00 PM! They meet at the Winnipeg Railway Museum, which is located at Via Rail's Union Station at 123 Main street. You're more than welcome to pitch in and help build a great looking model railroad. No experience is necessary, and the lessons are free! The structure is heated, so you can work in comfort!
Thursday, 19 December 2013
The making of the Gateway Western: Part one
By Morgan Turney
The Winnipeg Model Railroad Club's 'Gateway Western Railway' began in CN's Union Station. It was moved to Gooch's Hobbies and is now being resurrected at the Winnipeg Railway Museum, ironically, back at what is now VIA Rail's Union Station. This is the story of the building of the Gateway Western, which will be Winnipeg's crowning model railroad empire, as told in the photo captions.
The layout is being built though the financial efforts of both the Winnipeg Railway Museum and the WMRC. There are six to eight regular volunteers who meet once every week to do the work. Upwards of 15 different volunteers show up periodically when they can. Everyone involved is learning the skills needed to built a model train layout and what's best of all - it's so much fun!
So join us as we follow the building of the Gateway Western Railway. We'll post our progress at regular intervals on this site. Here we go!
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The Winnipeg Model Railroad Club's 'Gateway Western Railway' began in CN's Union Station. It was moved to Gooch's Hobbies and is now being resurrected at the Winnipeg Railway Museum, ironically, back at what is now VIA Rail's Union Station. This is the story of the building of the Gateway Western, which will be Winnipeg's crowning model railroad empire, as told in the photo captions.
The layout is being built though the financial efforts of both the Winnipeg Railway Museum and the WMRC. There are six to eight regular volunteers who meet once every week to do the work. Upwards of 15 different volunteers show up periodically when they can. Everyone involved is learning the skills needed to built a model train layout and what's best of all - it's so much fun!
So join us as we follow the building of the Gateway Western Railway. We'll post our progress at regular intervals on this site. Here we go!
The area for the Gateway building and layout was occupied by the former Renegade HO modular layout.
It was dismantled to make room for the new building.
It was dismantled to make room for the new building.
It all begins with the delivery of materials by McDiarmid Lumber though the west entrance of the WRM on
December 19, 2012. Temperature that day? Oh, somewhere around minus 25 or so!
December 19, 2012. Temperature that day? Oh, somewhere around minus 25 or so!
Walling material is off-loaded and stored for the layout building.
Materials are loaded on the flat cars that line the Museum's display area - no heat there, either!
Happy, smiling faces of some of the many volunteers.
Photos by Morgan Turney, Suzanne Lemon, Larry Leavens and others.
Sunday, 8 December 2013
Construction crew night at the Gateway Western on Tuesday, December 10
Want to work on a really big model railroad? Well, here's your chance! The Gateway Western needs you! Come on over to the Winnipeg Railway Museum, located at Winnipeg's historic Via Rail Union Station (located at 123 Main Street) at 7:00 PM (that's 19:00 railway time) and pitch in!
Come out and give us a hand, because even one more person helping out will make a real difference. If you've never been there before, it'll be a great opportunity to make some new friends. If you have been there already, it'll be an excellent opportunity to renew some old acquaintances.
The museum is located at the second level of the station. If you're entering through the front entrance, walk straight through the rotunda . The entrance will be the first door on your right. If you're coming through the station's back entrance, then walk through the corridor until you're almost reach the rotunda. The entrance will be on your left.
The Gateway Western is in it's own heated enclosure inside the museum, so you'll be roasty toasty warm was you're helping to build what is promising to be one of the finest layouts in the city.
The Gateway is the jewel in the crown of the Winnipeg Model Railroad Club. It's latest incarnation (and it's had almost as many regenerations as Doctor Who) brings it right back to Union Station, where the very first Gateway Western layout was assembled, maintained and operated by the WMRC until 1995, when it was replaced by a bathroom on the main floor.
Don't worry about your lack of skill, or even if you've never picked up a hammer. There's no experience necessary, as the crew will provide in house training!
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Come out and give us a hand, because even one more person helping out will make a real difference. If you've never been there before, it'll be a great opportunity to make some new friends. If you have been there already, it'll be an excellent opportunity to renew some old acquaintances.
The museum is located at the second level of the station. If you're entering through the front entrance, walk straight through the rotunda . The entrance will be the first door on your right. If you're coming through the station's back entrance, then walk through the corridor until you're almost reach the rotunda. The entrance will be on your left.
The Gateway Western is in it's own heated enclosure inside the museum, so you'll be roasty toasty warm was you're helping to build what is promising to be one of the finest layouts in the city.
The Gateway is the jewel in the crown of the Winnipeg Model Railroad Club. It's latest incarnation (and it's had almost as many regenerations as Doctor Who) brings it right back to Union Station, where the very first Gateway Western layout was assembled, maintained and operated by the WMRC until 1995, when it was replaced by a bathroom on the main floor.
Don't worry about your lack of skill, or even if you've never picked up a hammer. There's no experience necessary, as the crew will provide in house training!
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