Happy New Year from the Winnipeg Model Railroad Club

May all of our many members, readers, followers and their families have a wonderful New Year filled with trains, trains and more trains! Hope to see you all at our events in 2020! Keep 'em on the rails!

Assiniboine Valley Railway to hold its second open house of the month this weekend

Get set for another fun weekend riding the rails at the Assiniboine Valley Railway! They're having their second open house of the month on Saturday, December 28 and Sunday, December 29 from 2:00PM to 5:00PM both days. A ride is only three bucks. You can get two rides for $5.00, and a 10 ride pass costs just $20. Kids under two ride for free! Grab a hot chocolate for only 50 cents! The AVR is located at 3001 Roblin Boulevard, just west of Assiniboine Park.

Merry Christmas from the Winnipeg Model Railroad Club

May all of our members, readers, followers and their families have a great Christmas season and a wonderful New Year filled with trains, trains and more trains! Hope to see you all at our events in 2020! Keep 'em on the rails!

Portage La Prairie Model Railroad Club holds Christmas open house starting today

The Portage La Prairie Model Railroad Club is holding a Christmas open house starting today and continuing through the weekend and Monday. Come on down and run the trains on their layouts! Pick out something special from their gift shop! Treats will be available, and Santa will be visiting on Friday, Saturday, and Monday! Hours are from 10AM to 4PM on December 20, 21 and 23 and from 1PM to 4PM on Sunday, December 22. You can find them at the CPR Station in Portage La Prairie. It's worth the trip!

Take a Christmas ride on the Assiniboine Valley Railway this weekend

The Assiniboine Valley Railway is having its first Christmas open house of the season this weekend! Ride the rails through seven acres of winter wonderland on Saturday, December 21 and Sunday, December 22 from 2:00PM to 5:00PM. A ride is only three bucks. You can get two rides for $5.00, and a 10 ride pass costs just $20. Kids under two ride for free! Grab a hot chocolate for only 50 cents! The AVR is located at 3001 Roblin Boulevard, just west of Assiniboine Park.

The Winnipeg Model Railroad Club's 2019 Clinic Carnival was a great success!

People got to try their hand with an airbrush at John Bate's Airbrush clinic.

The WMRC had a great turnout at their annual clinic carnival, which was held on Friday, December 13 at the Charleswood Legion.

John Bate had his hands full conducting an airbrushing clinic, where he invited people to try their hand with an airbrush. Everyone was impressed with the meticulously hand crafted structures made by Ivan Paradis. Dave Downie showed how easy it is to weather with pan pastels. Richard Mikolayenko showed everyone how to paint HO and N scale figures.

Gary Crawford had a working display of his O scale narrow gauge equipment, and he also showed off some of his impressive landscaping techniques using home made items such as dyed sawdust and shredded foam colored with acrylic paint.

Our annual Christmas banquet was so successful it even surprised our hard working canteen volunteers, for they ran out of hotdogs!

Ivan Paradis and his son Nathan allowed guests to examine Ivan's superb structures.

Gary Crawford showed how to landscape using money saving homemade materials.

Gary also brought some of his O scale narrow gauge locomotives and rolling stock.

Richard Mikolayenko shows Marcel Blair and Gary Stempnick how to paint figures.

Dave Downie showed how to weather rolling stock with pan pastels.

It's clinic carnival time again at the Winnipeg Model Railroad Club

It's the model railroading event you've been for waiting all year! It's the WMRC's annual clinic carnival! Step right up to view five great clinics conducted by Winnipeg finest model railroaders.

John Bate will demonstrate airbrushing and will be glad to answer any questions that you might have. John will have a portable paint booth, a couple of airbrushes, and all the trimmings. He will demonstrate how they work, how to prepare paint, how to clean them, and some basic techniques. If you've not used one before you can try it for yourself on some scrap models. Or bring your own model and your choice of acrylic paint, and if time permits you can try to paint it.

Richard Mikolayenko will display painted figures in N and HO scales. Richard is an excellent modeller who always has interesting ideas. Learn how to populate your layout with people.
 
Ivan Paradis will display some of his beautiful structures in HO scale. Ivan's fine work has been showcased at our monthly model displays. Here is your opportunity to talk to him and learn his techniques.
 
Gary Crawford will display some of his O Scale narrow gauge equipment This will be a great opportunity to see some really exquisite models. Those of us not in O scale will be envious.
 
Dave Downie will display “weathering with pan pastels” and show how easily you can weather rolling stock and structures. He'll also display removable coal hopper loads that are easily built.
 
But wait! There's more! We'll also be holding our annual Christmas Banquet! Enjoy a feast on gourmet hot dogs specially prepared by our expert chefs! We're also collecting for Winnipeg Harvest, so please bring a tin for the bin.
The party starts on Friday, December 13 at 7:30 PM in the Tank Room at the Charleswood Legion, 6003 Roblin Boulevard. Not a member? Not a problem! Guests are always warmly welcomed. Hope to see you all there!

Richard Mikolayenko builds an N scale cathedral from scratch

Richard Mikolayenko brought to the WMRC's November model display an N scale cathedral that he built from scratch. He observed many churches around the city and combined many elements from them. He cut the main wall and the copulas on the spires to a scale height of about four stories high. He installed several of the window with colored glass.

The brick trim was done by using a tool called a "nibbler", adding one N scale brick at a time. The only parts of the structure that were not scratch built were the windows and the doors.

The CP holiday train arrives in Manitoba today

The CP holiday train arrives in Whitemouth, Manitoba at 6:45PM today. It will arrive in Winnipeg at 9:00PM at the grade crossing at Panet Road and Molson Street.

On Tuesday, December 3, the train will arrive in Portage La Prairie at 11:15AM. Then it will arrive in Neepawa at 2:45PM, then at Minnedosa at 4:00PM. It will make its final Manitoba stop at Shoal Lake at 7:15PM. Featured performers this year are Scott Helman and Madeline Merlo.